A backward looking story about Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google in the internet search business.

Quoted: a German writer, once noted that “if you get on the wrong train, running down the aisle in the opposite direction really doesn’t help.”

A story about how GOOG bought Android because they were being outflanked by MSFT's Win-Mobile. Android is not looking like a good bet right now.

Maybe MSFT should stop trying to pry online search share away from GOOG and focus on owning mobile search instead.

Quoted: You might already know that Google bought Android for million in after Danger co-founder Andy Rubin just asked them for

Google Gadget Legacy API Editor with Previewer

I was wrong yesterday. The google gadget lives in a div not an iframe. iGoogle themes also define a few styles that you can use in your gadget. This page talks about the gadget properties that are set by iGoogle themes.

SEO for Google Gadgets. How and where to get them listed.

Yet another Faves widget. This time it's a Google Gadget. So you can install it on your iGoogle page. It refreshes every two minutes so you can keep up with your friends or your favorite topics.

I've published to the gadget directories. Do me a favor and install it one your iGoogle pages. It will help with our gadget SEO.

How to publish a Google Gadget.

Facebook is the one to bash these days. I'm skeptical that they'll loose their audience to GOOG's Friend Connect due to high switching costs. But they need to figure out how to monetize all this traffic soon though or else start looking for a YouTube style exit before buyers become convinced that social networks can't be monetized.

Quoted: Facebook generated only $145 million in revenue last year, according to eMarketer, much of it from an ad deal with Microsoft. MySpace, by contrast, had ...

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