Microsoft offers more for yahoo – 34$

According to Citigroup Microsoft has offered a share price of 34$ a increase of 3$ per share. Previous offer of Microsoft was 31$ which yahoo and its share holders denied. It seems soon it will be YahSoft or you can say MicroHoo

Facebook more attractive than google – :-) ***8

Google looses another senior employee to social networking start up facebook. Is facebook going to a be a powerful social networking place in future. Facebook is only next to Myspace I feel it has a long long way to beat myspace but definitely seeing the effort taken by facebook people it seems to going in the right direction

“Facebook on Tuesday confirmed that Ethan Beard, the former director of social media at Google, will join the privately held company as director of business development. Mr. Beard is the second high-profile executive this month to leave Google, a company that was widely considered one of the best places to work in Silicon Valley.
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Though google is rated by fortune the No.1 company to work recent drop in its stock value might be an other reason its employees are panicking. From over 700$ google’s share value has dropped below 500$. If it continues this way they might end up with a share price of 300$ which is not good for a company like them,

About Facebook:

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

Anyone can join Facebook
All that’s needed to join Facebook is a valid email address. To connect with coworkers or classmates, use your school or work email address to register. Once you register, join a regional network to connect with the people in your area.

Discover the people around you
Facebook is made up of many networks, each based around a company, region, or school. Join the networks that reflect your real-life communities to learn more about the people who work, live, or study around you.

Do more
Facebook’s Platform enables anyone, anywhere, to build complete applications that you can choose to use. The possibilities are endless. Define your experience on Facebook by choosing applications that are useful and relevant to your world.

what is the future market share of Google in US?

Many predict google will have in excess of 80% , Even after US going on recession google has started investing heavily on various products. Recently they acquired Doubleclick a leading paid advertising company. They are now doing better in wireless market possibly stealing a share from Verizon in future. Back in the early 20th century many said Ford would be the dominant car manufacturer forever too. However, I think today GMC and Toyota would have something to say about that. Now, considering that Internet technology moves at light-speed compared to automotive technology… it should be a fair assessment that while Google is dominant now, 90% is pretty far fetch.

milliondollarhomepage.com still going strong

milliondollarhomepage.com one of the greatest inventions on Modern .com era is still going strong after 5 years. Alex the founder of million dollar homepage has promised publishers of hosting the ads for upto 2010. Its going strong and should be long enough

Yahoo now supports google’s effort on Open social networking

Yahoo we announced today that it has joined forces with Google and MySpace to create the OpenSocial Foundation, and will also begin supporting the OpenSocial standard. Industry consortiums such as this often start slowly and evolve over time. So far, OpenSocial is rapidly growing and adapting, but still in the early stages.

According to yahoo press release

“OpenSocial addresses an emerging problem for developers who are eagerly building applications people can enjoy with their friends: before OpenSocial, if a developer built a “favorite photos” application to work on one social network, it would have to be built all over again to work on another site. OpenSocial tackles this problem at its technology roots, providing common “plumbing” that lets social applications run on many different websites without requiring duplicate work from either developers or the websites.
The result is a vast distribution platform for social applications, whether they are for sharing photos or playing games or arranging real-world meetings or any number of other activities – everything is more fun, interesting, and useful when users can involve their friends and contacts.”

This video gives a better understanding on how opensocial works and to find more resources

Self expression and communication are often fun and entertaining alone, but OpenSocial is also a platform that can be leveraged to solve real world tasks where the social graph assists us in making decisions. For example, while some might be prone to grab a book at random off the shelf, there are many who appreciate a good recommendation from a friend. With a variety of possibilities in entertainment and interests, it can be useful to facilitate meetings, purchases, recommendations, information management and learning to create a richer, more lasting experience across your application.

Christophe Bisciglia former hacker now a google employee

Christophe Bisciglia was a former hacker who hacked into his boss’s company and flood his customers with 1000s emails he was pissed off when a argument with his boss turned out to be a violent one for him.

Bisciglia, who graduated from the UW in 2003, went to Lazowska with his idea in October, and they worked with engineers in Google’s Kirkland office to develop a syllabus for 15 undergraduates selected to take the five-week class, which recently wrapped up. No proprietary Google software was used, no internal secrets revealed, Bisciglia said. Bisciglia enjoys his job in google now when asked he said there is no chance of dropping his job as of now. His highly paid google job gives him lot of great vacations.

I hope google doesn’t piss him off 🙂

Britney still leads in searches – beats Jolie and paris

Britney the troubled celebrity mother still leads 2007 celebrity searches compared with Angelina Jolie and Paris Hilton. Google trends a cool new tool shows graphics of the 3 celebrities
how often they were searched around the world for the past 4 years

Google Trends , Google trends comparision software

What is real keyword competition in SEO?

How many of you have searched google and found results showing more than 10,000,000 million pages. We at Search Engine Genie have worked on sites where the competition is more than 25,000,000 and still gain No.1 position in Search engines. So how come we rank a website page better than 25,000,000 pages. Actually the no of results showing up is not the real competion you will be facing when it comes to ranking a website.

When you are looking to rank in niche markets make sure you first do a complete research on your competition. You use a keyword and find millions of results I recommend go through the top 10 pages after 10 pages you will see results that are not exactly competing with you but random pages that are there just because keywords you searched somewhere occur on that page. This is true in many cases most of the time competition to get your site ranked is not more than 1000 websites. Competing with 1000 websites will be one of the most of difficult task to do. So most of time when we are doing regional search engine optimization we are competing with less than 100 sites even if the results show millions of pages.

Most of the sites that are there in internet today are not optimized for search engines so that eliminates majority of the websites from competing with you, even if they are optimized they need lots of links to compete with competitive industry. So you get good links and you eliminate most of your competition. Also never stop adding quality information for your site if you are going after a niche industry you are supposed to run a website that even evolves. It usa to evolve by itself or you need to make it evolve.

We at search engine genie make sure we add atleast 2 pages of content to our website everyday. So 6 months down the road we have a website with atleast 1000 new pages of contents. This is a major step when it comes to tackling competition. So I recommend don’t worry what google shows in millions keep working on your site eventually you will be on top of Major search engines

Is word tracker paid service still a beneficial one?

I feel word tracker had been one of the best tools when it comes to keyword research. We at Search Engine Genie had been using word tracker paid service for a very long time. But now there are lots of other tools to do free keyword research. Adwords sandbox, google suggest , yahoo search marketing keyword suggestion tool everything works pretty good and all of them are free.

The amount of keyword suggestions word tracker provides cannot be matched by the free service offered by them. I also think their paid keyword suggestion database is updated more often then their free database is. If you are going to use it for multiple accounts it will be a great time saver. but if your using it just for your own domain then you can get away with the free one no problem I personally recommend sticking with the free one unless you are SEO company who are looking for large scale keyword research for clients

Best domain for high rankings

We keep getting questions from our users is there a criteria when it comes to top rankings in search engines. Google and other search engines have advanced sophisticated algorithms to separate combined words in URLs. we don’t need specific domains with underscores or hyphens
Google is smart enough for e.g. to find words “good guy” in “goodguy.com”

Apart from words in domain age of domain plays a very important role when it comes to search engine optimization and search engine ranking.