I know a lot of people will Google a company or website name to reach it so they don’t have to type out the URL, but how about people who use one search engine to find another, as they do in Japan?
When hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of Japanese Internet users want to Google something [...]

Yahoo stock plunges?
US$7 billion has been added to the share value Yahoo! as a result of the failed Microsoft takeover bid.
On Jan 31, the day before Microsoft offered $31/share for Yahoo, YHOO was at $19.18/share (market cap: $26.4 billion) and MSFT was at $32.60/share (market cap: $303.6 billion). At the close of trading today, YHOO [...]

Compare Google and Yahoo! search results for the same search term or word, and see how (vastly in some cases) the rankings vary from one search engine to the other.
By Christian Langreiter and Synerge Development Services.

Google cries foul over Microsoft’s Yahoo bid
The proposed Microsoft takeover takeover of Yahoo! has prompted an “uncharacteristically forthright” blog post from the head of Google’s legal department.
Microsoft’s $44.6bn bid for Yahoo raises “troubling questions” about the future of the internet, Google has warned. A takeover would also create a business with an “overwhelming share” of [...]

John Gruber takes a look at some of the technical issues that the possible Microsoft Yahoo! merger could present.
Engineering-wise, it’s interesting. Yahoo’s stuff is almost all written in PHP, and runs on FreeBSD and Red Hat Linux servers. I don’t think Microsoft has ever bought – and maintained – a significant software product that wasn’t [...]

Microsoft Offers $44.6B for Yahoo
Now here’s something to add a little speculation to Saturday morning breakfast and coffee.
Microsoft Corp. is making an unsolicited $44.6 billion offer for Yahoo Inc., the Internet icon and one the best known Web portals, in a move to boost its competitive edge against Google Inc. in the online services market. [...]