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Google Chrome vs. Internet Explorer 8

So I’ve been writing a lot about how Internet Explorer 8 is making Microsoft look worse and worse, saying that they need to spend more time on actually making a better product.
Let’s go head to head and see how they line up.
Right-click options?

IE8 looks a lot like Chrome, with a few other options. Which [...]

Microsoft Struggling to Stay Alive

Microsoft is simply acting in desparation now to keep Internet Explorer alive.
Chrome? Pfft, forget Chrome! Microsoft thinks that Chrome is “tarnished … so get rid of it or get lost”!
Here is Microsoft’s latest marketing push for Internet Explorer.

Everything Microsoft is Doing Wrong

Google Chrome was launched with some minor success just nine months ago, in September 2008. Initially, it was only available for Windows users. Disappointing for Mac and Linux users? Sure. End of the world? No. Google Chrome for Mac is now available, but still fairly buggy.
When Firefox was announced, [...]

Bing.com’s Structured Data Search Results

I’ve discussed various uses of structured data in search results. Here’s a short list of things I’ve covered.

Searching your profile on Google

Yahoo!’s Search Monkey integrates with LinkedIn

Google’s integrated sports data

Something I noticed with the new Bing.com search engine, is the structured data they are using. Though, it’s not even particularly structured data, it’s [...]

Bing.com Launches Webmaster Portal

Bing.com, the new “face” of live.com, Microsoft’s search engine, sent out a friendly email to all webmaster.live.com participants.

I logged in with my live.com login credentials and the first thing I noticed was that it looks exactly like webmaster.live.com, the webmaster portal for live.com.
In fact, even my sites that I auth’d on webmaster.live.com were in my [...]

Google Loses Mobile Search Deal to Microsoft

In recent news, Verizon chose Microsoft over both Google and Yahoo! as its search provider for its mobile devices.

Obviously Verizon did not choose Microsoft based on advanced or superior technology, but it’s purely based on the dollar amount of the deal. Microsoft must have forked out some serious cash to be selected as Verizon’s [...]

Windows 7 Beta Download for Free

The infamous Steve Ballmer announced at CES that Windows 7, the next version of Windows, will be available for download — for free. Bear in mind though, this is just the beta. I had previously beta tested Vista and was really unhappy with it.
My desktop still runs on Windows XP and oddly enough, [...]

PC World Thinks Google Apps Will Never “Catch On”

After reading this article from PC World, written by Preston Gralla, I have to say they sound really stupid.
Let’s take a look at a little excerpt from the article which is really the core of the accusasion.
In fact, Google Apps isn’t even as popular as the free OpenOffice.org. In “Study: OpenOffice five times more popular [...]

D.C. Government Drops Microsoft for Google

Bloomberg recently released an article that talks about a deal between the US Washington D.C. Government and Google, valued at roughly USD$500,000. The deal, for the government, means that its 38,000 employees will soon be using Google e-mail, Google Docs, and everything else Google related.
This is a huge upset for Microsoft, but I can [...]

Google Pulls Silverlight Press Release

This morning, Google released a press release about Silverlight. But the press release had only a short lifespan.
The press release was pulled.
Update 1:00pm EST: The press release is now available.

Shortly after, this is where it sends you:

But fortunately, there are press release partners like businesswire.com that will still carry the press release, even though [...]

Live.com Search Growth

Late last week comScore released some data about May 2008 and June 2008 search engine usage, both search engine shares and actual query counts.
Let’s talk about the first data set.

Google actually shows a small, but noticeable decrease in their stake of the search engine market. Still holding a hefty 61.5% in June 2008, but [...]

Forbes on Microsoft’s aQuantive Acquisition

Forbes published an article this morning that talks about how Microsoft’s acquisition of aQuantive, made a year ago, could have a serious conflict of interest in the industry of search and paid search.
I do not believe it will.
Microsoft is a very silo-ed company. They are made up of many different entities, companies within companies. [...]

Google Images thinks Microsoft is Yahoo! Already

I was doing some image research for an article recently and had to take a second look at the results. So I was searching for “microsoft” through Google Images, but here are the results I came up with.

Of course, I realize this is probably just temporary from all Microsoft+Yahoo! negotiations going on, but Google [...]

Simply Put, Yahoo! Says “No” to Microsoft

Simply put, Yahoo! feels that Microsoft undervalues the worth of Yahoo! “After careful evaluation, the Board believes that Microsoft’s proposal substantially undervalues Yahoo! including our global brand, large worldwide audience, significant recent investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earnings potential, as well as our substantial unconsolidated investments.”
On a [...]

Microsoft Beefs up Virtual Earth with Caligari Acquisition

Microsoft is trying to become a serious competitor with Google. Microsoft has announced that they have acquired Caligari for an undisclosed amount.
I say trying because Microsoft has a long ways to go before actually becoming a serious competitor to Google [or Yahoo!].
Microsoft has the potential to do it, but it would take a lot [...]

Google feels the Microsoft Bid is “Hostile”

Here is what David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer of Google has to say about the USD$44.6 bid that Microsoft put out on Friday to acquire Yahoo!

Official Bid on Yahoo! by Microsoft for USD$44.6bn

The confirmed rumor heard around the world. The official news that Microsoft has put in a bid on Yahoo! for USD$44.6bn. The offer, made public this morning, is Microsoft to pay $31 per share (while Yahoo! sits at $19.18 (“YHOO”) at the present time) in a mix of cash and stock. That’s [...]

Microsoft to Acquire Parlano

Parlano and Microsoft have come to terms which are undisclosed, to be acquired by this corporate giant. Their 50-odd employees are planning on moving to Redmond, WA after the close of the deal expected to happen in the fourth quarter.
“…Parlano’s “collaborative” software enables thousands of workers to share messages and other documents in real time, and offers better security than the freebie instant messaging offered by some Internet service providers…” is what ChicagoBusiness.com had to say about the deal. This actually doesn’t come as a surprise to me, not in the least bit.