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Yahoo looses more upper-management

The trickle of senior executives leaving Yahoo has turned into a flood. People close to the company confirmed on Thursday that three more senior executives — Qi Lu, Brad Garlinghouse and Vish Makhijani — were leaving. All were responsible for critical areas of Yahoo’s business.
Lu is executive vice president of the search and advertising technology group. He oversaw […]

Google PageRank Explained

What is PageRank?
PageRank is a numeric value that represents how important a page is on the web. Google figures that when one page links to another page, it is effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more votes that are cast for a page, the more important the page must be. Also, the […]

Microsoft to show new search tech this month

Microsoft hopes to back up its refrain that it has a plan to catch Google by showing off some improvements to its Live Search product at a company-sponsored advertising conference later this month.
“We will start to show you the next version of the search,” Chairman Bill Gates said in comments to reporters in Japan on […]

Communications Etiquette 101

We all have our pet-peaves. Some of us have laundry lists of them. My list of personal pet-peaves is rather short, and as far as my business pet-peaves, there is only one: Communications Etiquette.
What I am going to propose below might startle some of you largely due to the fact that most of us don’t […]

Vista and Leopard: Both victims of bad parenting.

When Vista was released the chorus of complaints and criticisms quickly grew from a low hum to a near deafening roar. A little more than 4 months since Apple released Leopard and that low hum of discontent has already been amplified to the sound of fingernails being dragged on a chalkboard. So far I have only […]