Microsoft Defends Yahoo! Bid

Microsoft Executive, CEO Steve Ballmer, defends its bid on the competitive search engine Yahoo! saying the offer is fair. After the bid refusal Microsoft's stock has declined which has sent the deal into multiple problems with price structuring; a factor Microsoft wants to deny. The deal was originally worth $44.6 billion but is now considered valued at $40.9 billion. Yahoo!'s stocks are slightly rising compared to a flat stock price for Microsoft.

SEO-Metro's Dallas SEO firm doubts anything substantial will come about the back and forth deliberations or the wanted deliberations Microsoft wants.

Ask.com Keeping TEOMA

Ask.com is keeping TEOMA and reports that another blog's speculation was not true. Ask is not abandoning TEOMA as we jumped the gun and erroneously reported on the last blog what we had read. Our apologies to Yahoo! even though we don't think the search engine part of Yahoo! is actually that great. Sorry, but losing TEOMA may be a beginning not an end.

Ask.com Search Problems

Ask.com, CEO Diller, is purportedly not impressed with the outcome of Ask.com and many think that the search engine in use, TEOMA, may be abandoned to have Google's search results returned in Ask.com's user interface.

It seems the search engine cannot achieve an independence to the top three, Google, Yahoo! and MSN even with a multi-million dollar advertising campaign. Users have noticed lately that sponsored results are now showing above the organic results which hints that the given results are not quiet as good as the sponsored results; a move that Google has no apologies nor shame when supplying several sponsors above the organic results.

Burying organic search results does little to help search engine optimization but does alot to help paid sponsored results.

Yahoo! Distracted by Microsoft Bid

Yahoo! Executives admitted in their annual report that the top executives had been distracted from regulart duties by the unwelcomed bid by Microsoft to take over its holdings for a $44.6 billion bid. Yahoo! reports that advertisers, publishers and key employees may not want to wait out any future negotiations that would leave those parties without their partnership with Yahoo! if a future takeover is successful.

Yahoo! also has 7 lawsuits pending against it, according to SearchEngineJournal, related to the Microsoft bid turndown.

Microsoft Desires Yahoo! Engineers

Microsoft has let it be openly known that they wish to acquire the search engineers at Yahoo! in order to keep up the competition with Google. Bill Gates, according to CNET, says because Yahoo! has expanded beyond just a focus on media and into breakthrough technology that will improve searches that it desires to acquire Yahoo!. Mr. Gates explained that the technology is expanding so quickly that it takes much energy to keep up with the constant changes.

It seems like energy is the drive that makes the most of search engine companies including search engine optimization companies that can be limited with synergy because of heavy work loads or lack of employees to get tasks started much less completed.

MSN/Yahoo! Deal Fizzling?

Soon to be reported on SEO Metro is rumors that the MSN deal acquiring Yahoo! is going down the pot in a fast way. Some anonymous sources are reporting Yahoo! is insulted with the 44.6 Billion dollar offer of acquisition.

Knowing such internet acquisition/attempts in the past of large corporations should leave no common citizen surprised.

Google Translate Drops Systran

Google Translate has stopped using the language translation technology Systran still being utilized by Yahoo!'s BabelFish. The Google technology was brought forth from Google Research Group and uses statistical machine translation. The different languages that are translated from English already include Spanish, German, French, Arabic, Chinese, Italian, Korean, Portuguese, Japanese and Russian.

Balihoo Search Engine Expands Beta Program

Balihoo just opened their beta program to include media companies instead of media buyers, advertising agencies and major national advertisers, as reported by our Texas SEO firm. Balihoo search engine hails from Boise, Idaho and claims to be the first and only vertical search engine for advertisers and media buyers.

Balihoo claims that 8 out of 10 of the major media buyers in North America are participating and all organizations represent purchases of about $80 billion a year in advertising. Balihoo says it connects advertisers and agencies to assist in searches for media properties.

Billionaire Seeks Google's Help

Sir Richard Branson, a British billionaire and close friend of aviator Steve Fossett, is seeking help from Google in finding the missing pilot who was last seen taking off from an airport in Nevada several days ago. The search engine is known for its ability to map the earth with 3D images and Branson is hoping the search engine giant can turn its attention to the area Fossett was last known to have been flying over although no flight plan was submitted to aviation officials.

It would be interesting to know the cost the billionaire submitted to Google or the amount of cash Google would need to perform such a terrain search on earth from space.

Texas SEO Hacked

That's right, Texas SEO was hacked. SEO Metro is quiet pleased that the competition knows it stands no chance against those who know SEO versus those that "think" just a bunch of inbound links will suffice versus knowledge in website optimization. It is amazing that SEO sites appear to jump up and down, screaming we "are SEO experts" or "we have figure out the puzzle". If they had the algorithms figured out they would not be sinking like an overladen ship in the Pacific. Maybe they should hire a real SEO firm to come and bail them out before they sink to the floor or past the front page which will drive little traffic in this field.

1. On the positive side we now see what we are up against; just a bunch of unscrupulous individuals or an individual that cannot get their website(s) to the top and must resort to underhanded tactics because of their lack of SEO knowledge.
2. SEO Metro will remain vigilant in watching our sites and our clients sites to ensure no files are uploaded or manipulated.