Yahoo's Jerry Yang has sent out an email to Yahoo shareholders disclosing that the company will sell itself to Microsoft for $33 per share or more. Arnold reviewed the meat of the letter , so readers don't have to run through it all themselves, but we wanted to focus on this phrase in the letter : ' we will sell the entire Company to Microsoft for $33 per share or more if Microsoft will negotiate a transaction that delivers certainty of value and certainty of closing.

Less than half a month to go before the dreaded Yahoo Shareholders' meeting, Yahoo's Jerry Yang and Roy Bostock sent a joint letter to the shareholders urging them to support the current Board. Nothing fancy or new things has been said in the letter though. The letter updates the shareholders of what the current Yahoo Board has been doing the past couple of days to maximize Yahoo's value. More particularly on search and display, the Google deal,

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We interrupt our regular coverage of the ongoing Yahoo-Microsoft tussle to focus on what could possibly be both companies' fall back options. It seems like the focus of attention now is the acquisition of  Time Warner's AOL property. Reports say that both Microsoft and Yahoo are eyeing a deal with Time Warner on two different merger options and both are rushing to get a good deal before the Yahoo shareholders' meeting.

Like plural/ singular word forms , hyphenated terms also often pose a difficult SEO issues for us to solve - which version to use and optimize for: two-word, one-word or hyphenated one? That question would be much easier to answer if Google demonstrated any definitive behavior when treating hyphenated terms; instead when using a hyphen in a search term, you will most likely see the mixture of hyphenated, single-word and two-word spelling variations.

Legal Attorney Hal K. Levitte filed a complaint before the U.S. District Court in San Jose Calif. against Google for allegedly serving his AdWords' ads on parked domains. Levitte's ad campaign ran from June 1, 2007 to August 18, 2007 on parked domains through Google for Domains. During that period, his ad managed to get around 202,528 impressions from parked domains where his ads were served by Google. Despite this number of impressions,

Microsoft is now soliciting beta testers for its AdCenter Desktop application. Launched sometime in June the Microsoft AdCenter Desktop enables advertisers and agencies to manage their AdCenter accounts from a desktop application. They can then upload what they have done on their PCs to their AdCenter account online.

An interesting discussion over at SearchEngineWatch Forum covers the way)s( of treating out-of-stock product pages that cannot be of any use to a visitor but still carry a lot of weight )in the form of inlinks, rankings and traffic(. So what can be done to make them worthwhile for a human visitor and at the same time take the full advantage of their SEO power?

Finally Microsoft issued a formal statement regarding the Google-Yahoo search ad deal . Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp. senior vice president and general counsel, questioned the legality of the deal before the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommitte on Antitrust and the House Judiciary Committee Antitrust Task Force. Mr. Smith also emphasized on the damage that the said deal would cause to the online advertising and innovation competition.

Microsoft issued a statement clarifying that their proposal last Friday, which Yahoo rejected on Saturday, did not include a change of Yahoo governance. Interestingly, Microsoft also said that their proposal was "solicited" by Yahoo's Roy Bostock due to Carl Icahn's attempts to engage Microsoft and Yahoo on a search transaction that will be favorable to Microsoft. In addition, Microsoft said that after submitting their proposal,

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Sometime in 2005, Google has launched the Code Search, a vertical search property that indexes and parses published source code on the web giving users )more particularly, code developers and programmers( a flexible search engine to find what source codes are already available.

Best of the Web is running a July offer which is giving its advertisers and online marketers 20% off of all BOTW.org advertisements,

Robots.txt has become a widely used method of controlling your site crawling. Thus it has become one of the first things I check when diagnosing on-site issues. While nowadays almost every webmaster knows its basics,

Last year tech sites were abuzz with rumors of the mythical Gphone - a mobile phone created by Google. Nothing came of it, and Google eventually squashed the rumors by instead announcing their involvement in the Open Handset Alliance and Android, their open-source mobile phone operating system. But now, comments made by the Google co-founders and CEO have many speculating about the Gphone yet again. Hollywood Reporter writer Dan Cox has sparked the newest round of rumors,

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It didn't take that long for the Yahoo Board to renounce the new proposal made by Microsoft and Carl Icahn to acquire Yahoo's search business last Friday. Yesterday, Yahoo issued a statement citing four reasons for rejecting the new proposal: 1. Yahoo!'s existing business plus its recently signed commercial agreement with Google has superior financial value and less complexity and risk than the Microsoft/Icahn proposal. 2.

If you're going to openly sell crap links on the footer of your site to Mesothelioma Lawyers, Ticket Scalpers, Personal Injury Law Firms and other blatant spam related and irrelevant sites )sites which are not relevant to your own(, Google is going to find you out and probably penalize you. Such is the case of NewsDay.com, which was slapped with a Google Penalty for openly selling spam links throughout their high profile site.

"And then what will shareholders be left with? A weakened, Icahn-controlled Yahoo." These were the last few words that Yahoo's Jerry Yang said during his conversation with Boom Town's Kara Swisher . Mr. Yang was of course answering to two issues, or should we say two companies threatening to takeover Yahoo's Board and owning the company.