Microsoft Kumo Search Engine Test - Kumo Online Search Engine!

Microsoft to Launch new Online Search Engine "Kumo.com" Kumo is under testing and is available only internally to Microsoft employees

According to reports there is a new search to appear in the Net business. Kumo, which means spider or cloud in Japanese, would replace Microsoft's LiveSearch.

According to the screenshots, Kumo is a three-column web page with search results in the middle and Google-style text ads related to your search terms in the right column. On the left side is the search categories. Interestingly Kumo uses categories directly related to your search

According to Hitwise UK SEARCHES

UK Google search 61.49% of UK searches

MSN.co.uk for 7.07%,

Ask.co.uk for 6.05%

Yahoo for 5.3%.

In the U.S Google was used for 72.11% and Yahoo for 17.52%.

These were the screenshots - Do note the Kumo search engine is still under testing and has not been released yet

Latest SEO News: Adlab MSN Tools, Google Suggest!

New Arrivals: Google / MSN

Google Releases:

Google has come up with already Google Insights and now Integrating Google Suggest which has now been implemented. Tools which i like of Google are : Google Trends | Google Insights | Google Suggest(Live) Google suggest was there earlier but was not implemented earlier to google.com.

Google Suggest :

When u type any keys in the search bar in Google it would give u live suggestions with search figures in real time. Google will automatically correct misspelled words and also will save time by eliminating keystrokes because Google would Suggest searches that are covered under Google's privacy

To use Google Suggest, users must use IExplorer 6.0 (or newer), Netscape 7.1 (or newer), Mozilla 1.4 (or newer), Firefox 0.8 (or newer), Opera 7.54 (or newer),or Safari 1.2.2 (or newer) and have JavaScript and cookies enabled.


MSN:

MSN Launches AdLab Site for Search Marketers:

MSN has done some great works with launching Microsoft AdCenter Labs, in the fields of

• Audience Intelligence
• Data Mining
• Keyword Research Direct Marketing
• Contextual Advertising
• Video Mining.

The new adCenter Lab site covers are

• paid search
• contextual advertising
• behavioral targeting
• emerging markets behavior targeting-related tools, for example, can predict a user's demographic information based on online behavior.

"Keyword mutation detection Tool"
A "keyword mutation detection" tool displays common misspellings of various keywords


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Microsoft's bid Failed: Yahoo! Rejects Offer

Microsoft's bid Failed:

Microsoft Corp.'s decision to drop its pursuit of Yahoo! Inc. increases the pressure on

Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer to make his money-losing Internet business succeed

against Google Inc.


Ballmer and Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft's Internet unit, met two days ago in

Seattle with Yahoo co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo, two people familiar with the

negotiations said. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft, the largest software maker,

offered to raise its $44.6 billion bid by about $5 billion, to $33 a share. Yang and Filo

refused to accept less than $37 a share, the people said.


Google gained 10 percentage points of market share in Internet queries since June,

providing 59.8 percent of the searches done in March, according to researcher ComScore

Inc. in Reston, Virginia.


ABOUT MICROSOFTS BUYS:

Microsoft has spent $7.5 billion on its Internet unit over the past 2 1/2 years,

estimates Matt Rosoff, an analyst at Kirkland, Washington-based Directions on Microsoft.

The online services business lost $745 million last fiscal year as Google outsold

Microsoft in Internet ads by a 7-to-1 margin.

The company released its AdCenter Internet-advertising service two years ago to challenge

Google with a program that targets ads by age, gender and location. Microsoft also bought

Seattle-based AQuantive Inc. in August for $6 billion to gain tools that help advertisers

track the success of their marketing efforts.




source: bloomberg.com

Latest Google Yahoo News : Microsoft bid?

Latest Google Yahoo News Update!

Yahoo Inc. is holding out hope that there are ways it can thwart Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover offer, including the emergence of a rival bidder or a business tie-up with Google Inc. that might allow it to remain independent, people familiar with the matter say.

Antitrust experts say Google's latitude to do even a business deal with Yahoo is minimal because of likely regulatory concerns. At Microsoft, optimism is growing that the $31-a-share offer for Yahoo that it made public Friday will go through in the absence of rival bids, people ...


Goolge Yahoo News Software Market Update

Business software units of Yahoo Inc and Google Inc are introducing beefed-up versions of their Web-based software that compete with Microsoft Outlook, offering yet another clue why Microsoft Corp made a $45 billion unsolicited bid for Yahoo.

SEARCH Market:

In the search market, a combined Microsoft-Yahoo would have about 33 percent of the market, still trailing Google’s 58 percent,

But in Web-based e-mail, comScore ranks Yahoo, with 256 million visitors worldwide in December, and Microsoft, with 255 million, as the top two providers. While there is bound to be overlap among users of the companies’ e-mail services, a combined Microsoft-Yahoo would command a much larger share than Google, which comScore ranks in third place with 90 million visitors in December.

Yahoo and Microsoft rank
No. 1 and 2 in financial news,
No. 2 and No. 1 in instant messaging

Latest Bid by Microsoft: Microsoft bids $45 billion for Yahoo



soure : nytimes, comscore,reuters, wallstreetjournal