By almost doubling its spending on lobbying, Microsoft managed to kill the Google-Yahoo ad deal and may also have saved itself millions of dollars on a Yahoo buyout. That’s the case made by Declan McCullough today on CNET. McCullough explains that Microsoft spent about $12-$14 million per year on lobbyists between 2005 and 2007, but […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google the superbrand and top global brand is also listed on the Better Business Bureau’s (BBB) list of businesses as having an “unsatisfactory record.” The reason Google has this unsatisfactory rating from the BBB is because Google has failed “to respond to one or more complaints and or two or more otherwise unresolved.” The BBB […]
Sipping on a cup of coffee on a Wednesday morning in the lounge of the local bowling alley last summer, surrounded by shop keepers and insurance salesmen and other small business owners, I hand out my business card. Most of these merchants have actual places I can visit, while all I have are pages they […]