Yesterday’s news regarding Microsoft’s offer to buy out Yahoo shouldn’t surprise anyone. LiveSearch is almost irrelevant as a search engine, and MSN has seen declining traffic in the latter half of 2007. Yahoo, if not the most used search engine, is still the number one stop on the internet, edging out Google in overall traffic, [...]

As some of you might know I’m running two other sites, www.fifa2008news.com and fm2008news.com. Both of these sites feature latest news about two football or soccer video games. They even have news that can’t be found anywhere else on the internet, since both games have their roots in Europe, I get the information before the [...]

This time last year personal homepages were all the rage, with both big players like Google, MSN and Yahoo! and also small players like netvibes and pageflakes all frantically developing services.
However, it’s rare these days to see any interesting stories break about personal homepages. I wonder, is this because RSS readers have stolen their [...]

I like to keep an eye on my ‘Who’s Online‘ page which can be quite informative and a very quick way of gauging how much traffic I’m getting.
One thing I’ve noticed is that Yahoo’s Search Bot is constantly crawling my site, and that there are always multiple instances running at the same time.  Does anyone [...]

It seems that there may be some truth to the rumours that Google is looking into building a IM/VoIP client. The domain talk.google.com is live and directs to www.google.com/talk/ which gives a 404 error.I’m expecting a service using Jabber similar to AOL’s allowing Google’s messenger to communicate with all the other big services - [...]