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Appearantly Microsoft had this to say after Yahoo decided to test Adsense along side their search results:

“Any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google’s hands. This would make the market far less competitive, in sharp contrast to our own proposal to acquire Yahoo! We will assess closely all of our options.”

Hold up… Microsoft is saying that a definitive agreement would consolidate over 90% of Search Advertising… making it far less competitive? And this is coming from a company that has had a monopoly of Operating systems and the Internet Browser Market for how long?

Appearantly Microsoft had this to say after Yahoo decided to test Adsense along side their search results:

“Any definitive agreement between Yahoo! and Google would consolidate over 90% of the search advertising market in Google’s hands. This would make the market far less competitive, in sharp contrast to our own proposal to acquire Yahoo! We will assess closely all of our options.”

Hold up… Microsoft is saying that a definitive agreement would consolidate over 90% of Search Advertising… making it far less competitive? And this is coming from a company that has had a monopoly of Operating systems and the Internet Browser Market for how long?

Greedy, greedy, greedy..

Hey my faithful readers! Hah, right.. After posting about my stacker successes I’ve almost felt as though I can’t post about anything else because those who are subscribed to the blog might be disappointed (or otherwise annoyed) at my other posts. But I will post a couple of things of interest in this post. Well, maybe… Read the rest of this entry »

I have been waiting for this day to come for some time now (although it was earlier this week) and have eagarly been watching Alexa’s rankings of Now Upload stick around the 217,000ish range for solid week. The reason I was excited about this is because it’s the last day Now Upload had *crappy* ratings in the 3 month window, which Alexa proudly judges site popularity on.

Today, Now Upload reaches the ranking of 192,988 on Alexa’s international scale. More specifically, in Vietnam (where more than 50% of the site’s users hail) Now Upload is ranked 2,391 and 150,423 in the US.

It’s exciting to see the site grow as much as it has in the past year and a half. I look forward to improving it steadily over the years. However I begin to wonder this now, how reliable/accurate is Alexa’s reach analytics system? Anyhow, it’s a upper for any webmaster to see their ranks glide up.

One of the interesting topics that came up during our discussion was the take down of a security related website (seclists) that contains thousands of email list archives (Story). The reason was because a list of approximately 56,000 myspace usernames and passwords was published by a user of the website (Remember afterall it is an email list archive). From that, we wondered- How did these hackers get ahold of these usernames and passwords?

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