Well its finally a done deal. After turning down $44 Billion from Microsoft last year for their company and after reportedly turning down Billions from Microsoft for just its search business, Yahoo finally made a deal with Microsoft for control of its search business. The final price: Zero. Not a dime upfront, nor a dime guaranteed. Certainly not the "boatloads of money" CEO Carol … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2009
Hollywood.us For $5,700, A Bargain or Not?
There were a few interesting domain auctions closing today. One very interesting one was Hollywood.us. I don't own very many .us domains, but this sure looked like a good one, especially in light of the success of Hollywood.com and Hollywood.tv. After much debate between myself and myself, I passed, but still think it was a very good buy at $5,722, where it sold on SnapNames.com … [Read more...]
New Study: Bing.com Ads More Likely To Clicked Than Google Ads
A study by the search advertising network Chitika , says that people who land on sites from organic search results are 55% more likely to click on an ad from Bing.com than on Google. Analyzing click-through rates from 32 million ad impressions across a network of more than 50,000 sites during seven days in July, Chitika found that Bing users clicked on ads 1.5% on average, compared with 0.97 … [Read more...]
Ad Age: Yahoo To Send Its Traffic To Bing.com
According to AdvertisingAge.com, Yahoo is on the verge of a deal that would make Microsoft's Bing.com, its search provider. Yes according to the story, Yahoo would send its traffic to Bing.com and the story goes on to say the deal is likely to be announced this week. However, unlike the reports of last week, the deal is to be based on just a revenue share, not on an upfront or guaranteed … [Read more...]
Google’s Sells Its 5% Share Of AOL & Loses Over $700 Million In The Process
Time Warner bought the 5% of AOL that Google owned for $283 million dollars. Its not a very good return for Google. Back in 2002 its purchased their 5% interest for $1 Billion dollars. Time Warner, plans to spin off AOL by the end of the year, into a separate public company, bought the stake from Google on July 8 according to filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The … [Read more...]
Smashingmagazine.com: Get Creative Go “Domain Hacking”
I guess its time for everyone to expand their vocabulary with the newest term for domainers: "Domain Hacking" Apparently the folks at smashingmagazine.com have some previously unknown advice in their story "Get Creative With Your Domain Name" Here is some of their advice. "Go domain hacking". ""No it’s not actually hacking someone’s domain name and stealing it. It’s the process of … [Read more...]
Biblical.com Sells for $17K on NameJet.com
The domain biblical.com sold on NameJet.com for $17,400. Here are a few other notable domain sales over the last couple of days at NameJet.com I know alot.com is a big site, but $2,877 for alike.com? I love dogs, but thedog.com for $13K, seems like "a lot". … [Read more...]