See below for a video from Steve Ballmer about the Yahoo Microsoft Search deal:

Search Engine Watch have asked the search community for their reactions about the Yahoo & Microsoft Search deal, see below for a quote from the article: “Dr. Tomasz Imielinski, executive vice president of technology at Ask.com hints that their could be room for other players to move ahead while Microsoft and Yahoo! spend time implementing [...]

Twitter have released a brand new homepage which consists of a large real time search box. See below for a quote from the Twitter Blog: “Today we’re trying a redesigned front page for folks who are new to Twitter.com. If you’re a regular around these parts, then you won’t notice the new look unless you [...]

MSN and Yahoo have revealed details about their long awaited search deal which has now been confirmed by both parties. Yahoo are to change their search results to Bing, so that the look is still the same (just branded “powered by bing”) but the results are coming from Bing. The Search Marketing platforms will also [...]

Search Engine Land have reported that Google have sold its 5% stake in AOL back to AOL itself for $283 million. The original purchase by Google was for $1 billion, which shows a large drop in AOL’s value. See below for a quote from Search Engine Land: “In anticipation of a spin off/IPO for AOL, [...]

Twitter have launched a new business section under the sub domain of business.twitter.com, on the new sub domain is a section titled “Twitter 101 for Business – A Special Guide”. The new section has guides, case studies, best practices and resourses for businesses looking to get into Twitter. Could we soon see a new sub [...]

Yahoo have reported second quarter net income of $141.4 million, or 10 cents a share, on revenue excluding traffic acquisition costs of $1.14 billion. Wall Street was expecting Yahoo to report earnings of 8 cents a share on revenue of $1.14 billion. Non-GAAP second quarter earnings were 16 cents a share, on par with expectations [...]

YouTube have recently added a new statistics feature to it’s videos which allows users to: – View how many views the video has had on a timeline – View which websites have embedded their video and when (this is then relayed on the timeline) – View Refferals from other YouTube videos – View what the [...]

Yahoo UK and Ireland have released their brand new Homepage, users can choose to opt into the new Homepage or choose to continue using the original Homepage. The new Homepage as expected has integrated third party websites such as Facebook and MySpace, allowing users to check for example their Facebook updates without leaving Yahoo. The [...]

Google have announced a new update for Webmaster tools, the new update allows users to: Block certain Sitelinks from appearing in SERP’s (which are automatically created by Google) Easily select verified Google Webmaster websites View URL removal requests The Google Webmaster Tools Homepage has also been given an update; which allows users to easily tell [...]