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Daily Focus: 
MySpace
Courts The Search Industry
Though MySpace.com found itself in the top six last month in terms of search share,
News Corp. isn't a bit shy to say it ain't about search, it's about green. 85
million captive members give it the leverage to tell Google, Yahoo! and MSN to
pony up if they want in. After all, its milkshake brings all the boys to the yard...
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PRWeb
Evangelist Affiliate Program
PRWeb has announced the launch of their Evangelist affiliate program. Currently
in beta, the program is available to a limited number of participants to start.
Where
2.0: Yahoo's Local Search Vision
Paul Levine from Yahoo! was at Where 2.0 discussing what Yahoo!'s up to with local.
Participation is key and it's what's guiding their strategy. Enabling users to
find use share and expand.
Firefox
Debuts In World Cup
As Juan, a soccer fan, plugs away at his desk job, he isn't as distraught as he
might be for having to miss his home country's appearance in the World Cup. Juan's
Firefox browser is decked out in his national colors and fills him in each time
his team scores a GOOOOOOAAALLL!
Google
Searches Bard, Finds Yorick's Skull
Google launched a new function in conjunction with its Book Search, one that celebrates,
not relegates, a bard without besmirch. Shakespeare, in high school you were never
easy, as we emulated with poems that to the ear and eye were cheesy. Like this
one.
MSN
Invokes Karma For Charity Campaign
MSN is launching a karmic charity campaign called Under the Butterfly, a concept
based on the famous Butterfly Effect that asserts small events impact larger ones.
It's "karmic" because participants in the event will have a choice:
keep a prize or donate the cash equivalent.
Microsoft
Extends Office Training Online
A computer on your desk at work equals a 17-percent pay raise, according to the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. It's not so much the machine, it's the skills
of the person working it. When answering the job ad, she was able to tell recruiters
she knew how to use Excel.
Japanese
Search Targets U.S. Counterparts
According to the proverb "the enemy of my enemy is my friend," search
competitors Google, Yahoo, and MSN would do well to band together in the face
of a new threat. Thirty Japanese companies, with the support of the Japanese government,
are joining up to create a competing search engine.
"Free
Alaa" Googlebomb
Alaa Abd El-Fatah is a peaceful proponent of democracy who was jailed during a
nonviolent protest - his supporters in Egypt want you to know this. They want
anyone who googles "Egypt" to know this, as a matter of fact. A Googlebomb
campaign has begun...
eBay
Adds 'Skype Me' Icons For Auctions
On Monday eBay said that it had a special announcement for sometime Tuesday regarding
a new incorporation of Skype technology for its online auction house.
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PubSub CTO Bob Wyman was never one to pull punches. And though the blogosphere has been a store window for many companies, Wyman's latest blog entry detailing not just that the company is days from bankruptcy, but chronicling the internal political struggles between himself and the CEO, has some wondering at what point transparency becomes the medium of aired dirty laundry.
Editor's Note: It appears as if the founders and the
governing bodies of PubSub are in severe disagreement over the course of the company
and the service may be in jeopardy. Take a look at what's going on with the blog
engine and share your thoughts at WebProWorld.
 Or is Wyman's blogging from a sinking ship the last hope of saving a company he's devoted a good portion of his life to, after realizing owning nearly 40 percent of it accounted for nearly nothing in the boardroom?
Excerpts from Wyman's emotional post:
Our days are numbered. A recent attempt to execute
a merger has been blocked and we've been blocked from raising equity financing
that would allow us to continue to pay salaries and pay off our $3 million in
debt. Thus, our "doors" will close soon if we can't find someone to pull us out
of the current situation. Persons with fast access to cash and a desire for some
of the industry's best technology are advised to contact us rapidly...
What has prevented us moving forward is a battle with a group of minority shareholders,
some of whom claim to be lead by our ex-CEO Salim Ismail and are, in any case,
primarily his "friends and family." This group is using very unusual clauses in
our Shareholder's agreements to block mergers or financings. We've found it difficult
to determine their motives, however, some have said that they believe that it
is in their interest to drive the company into bankruptcy so that they can buy
our software and start a new company…
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The clause that is being used to block us is a "one-man-one-vote" clause that
requires that a majority of the shareholders approve any change to the shareholders'
agreement… What that means is that one of our shareholders who has 75 shares has
as much voting power as I do with my 540,000 shares (38.8% of the company).
What does PubSub CEO Salim Ismail have to say about it? It would appear he's going on a pilgrimage. Dated the same as Wyman's post, from Ismail's blog:
Just to let everybody know, I'm going on a meditation course for several days and will be out of phone/email contact for a while. Unfortunately I will miss the first stage of the World Cup but I seriously need to decompress.
Bloggers have been sympathetic and critical of Wyman's revelation. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington believes Wyman was wrong to publicly take shots at Ismail, especially when looking for potential buyers.
"Regardless of who's right, Bob was wrong today," wrote Arrington. "A founder should never try to solve problems by publicly attacking another founder. Who's going to step in now and fund or buy the company with all of this incredibly immature drama being thrown about?"
News of PubSub's struggles come as a surprise to many. In January, Yahoo!'s Jeremy Zawodny predicted the death of rival blog and rss engine Feedster, which recently announced its plan to move into Asian markets. Feedster, too, had its share of internal political drama late last year, but executives at that company were extraordinarily tight-lipped about it.
But if one were in attendance at the Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago last year, it was rather apparent Wyman's passion for his company as he verbally duked it out in public with former Feedster CTO and co-founder Scott Johnson (just a week before Johnson's own dramatic episode).
As this drama plays out, it will be educational to see if public pleas for financing
coupled with attacks on high-level executives can save the sinking ship that is
currently PubSub, or if this was a classic PR blunder that will become a cautionary
tale.
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Big
3 Search Engines Building On Columbia River
 By
Jim Hedger
Google, Yahoo and MSN are all building massive datacenters along the Columbia
River in southern Washington State and northern Oregon .
According to an article that ran in the June 8 edition of the New York Times, Hidden in Plain Sight, Google Seeks More Power , the three search giants are each tapping into the enormous generating potential of the massive mountain fed river.
Google is adding on to an already huge set of facilities around The Dalles , a town approximately 80miles east of Portland on the border of Oregon and Washington State . Microsoft and Yahoo are both planning similar centers 150 miles north in the Washington State towns of Wenatchee and Quincy . All three communities have the three essential ingredients necessary to build large datacenters on top of.
The Columbia River supplies cheap electricity to surrounding industry. With tens or even hundreds of thousands of processors and hard drive to deal with, ample power is a critical concept.
Next, all three communities sit on top of or very close to massive fiber optics
backbones laid during the dot-com boom of the late 1990's. Over the past few years,
each firm has made a point of buying as much redundant fiber as they possibly
could with Google rumoured to have gobbled up much of it.
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About
the Author:
Jim Hedger is the SEO Manager of StepForth Search Engine Placement Inc. Based in Victoria, BC, Canada, StepForth is the result of the consolidation of BraveArt Website Management, Promotion Experts, and Phoenix Creative Works, and has provided professional search engine placement and management services since 1997. |
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Who Is King Of The Internet Mountain
Whenever the concept of Internet supremacy is brought up, the conversation inevitably turns towards the Google versus Microsoft discussion (sorry Yahoo!). If you follow the message boards with any frequency, you notice the lines are being drawn and people are revealing where their loyalties lie. What about you? What do you think of the brewing battle for supremacy between the two mega-giants? Let us know at WebProWorld.
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Google
Vs Microsoft: Is Google On Top?
Any discussion of Microsoft vs Google is lost without touching on politics. Let's face it, many people love Google largely because it isn't Microsoft. In other words, people are fed up with corporate corruption, and M$ is one of the most reviled corporations around - and justifiably so.
But Bill Gates' disdain for ethics and the law cuts both ways. Though it gives him a black eye, it also buys favors in Congress. When the federal government began demanding private information and trade secrets from search engines, too few people asked what the government was REALLY after. How hard would it be for the federal government to steal some of Google's code, then turn around and hand it over to Google?
Similarly, I've noticed some really lopsided press lately. The corporate media
are quick to jump on Google while largely ignoring Microsoft, which is far more
corrupt.
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I plan to syndicate ebusiness news on my site by adding 4 lines of HTML RSS code...
Can Google read these headlines as content?
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