Microsoft is considering acquiring Yahoo

Microsoft is considering acquiring Yahoo! in what could be a $50 billion deal.

Well, search engine will be dominated by Microsoft and Google. Who have more innovative ideas will win. Microsoft is good at following and take over.

Apart from USA market, China is 2nd largest market in the world. China will be replacing USA as the largest internet market in 2010 by having 200 Million on the line.

Why buy Yahoo, can consider to buy Baidu, which is the largest search engine in China, taking 53% of market share. Li KaiFu, its CEO mentioned in near future, there will be no place for overseas company.

Hate the idea of creating Blogg is for making money only.

Recently I have tried a number of tools that is designed to make money by web site or Blogging. I would say they are just not impressive as they stated.

1. First I went to a advertisement, promising the website worth $1,200. Then I registered, what I found is 3 ads (with some nice pics) for other companies, the only way to earn money is by affiliate. Then I sent to a forum, suddenly, more than 60 people visited the site, by none of them registered the 3 ads.

2. I wrote a few articles in Squidoo, I put all kinds of affiliate in, after 2 weeks, there are around 50 visits totally, and earning is 0.

3. HyperVEE, is a software I downloaded, and upgraded to GOLD membership. Using the software can produce lots of website easily. Some people mentioned it was ever used for creating 600 web site easily. What I found is what it can possibly deliver is horrible. Searched article does not match its keyword title or it has no documents returned. From software development point of view, it does not meet the basic standard. If a web site is developed by this software, I don’t know who will visit, why they would click Adsense in the site. What it can do is precompiled searched articles in the site, which can be possibly done by customized Google search or searching Looksmart.

4. I bought EasyBlogGenerator, it is a very sophisticated software. It has high standard from development of view compared with HyperVRE. If the objective of using the software is to creating blogging quickly, saying creating 40-50 blogs easily, then it definitely would end into a wrong track. The software can be helpful for people wanting to have a decent web site without good knowledge of HTML. Also, I hate the idea of copying other people’s article and replacing a few words to own the article.

Come on, there are 120K blogs are being created everyday, if propose of creating Blog is to make money, then it is totally WRONG. Making money is a by-product of people’s thoughts or people’s great efforts.

Name of the Blog was also changed for a few times because of this investigation process.

The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, April 2007

Looksmart in Australia is not listed. Is the 101 search engine.

The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, April 2007

How many blogs

According to web study, every day there are 120,000 new weblogs are being created, in mid 2005, there are around 70 million websites in the world.

And website are indexed and searched out by a few main search engines, to make a living from web by Google Adsense, is difficult.

First needs to find a good topic, secondly create a nice attactive web site or blog, thirdly, need to consider ways to improve traffic.

No many clicks a day people are conducting, 20 billions. So, there is still a chance to get clicked if page is rank is low.

Blog in Flex

This is a blog application written by Flex, like to see its appearance in one of the server. RIA, this would be Blog 2.0 The flash blog

iGoogle and web applications

When I first experienced iGoogle, first thing in my mind is what application can bring business value. Unlike weather, time, or art tool, is there any application small and easy to be used by end users. On the other hand, it can also benefit the community. Then I come across the Amazon search tool, which I feel is one of the best to be used by every one.

When buying stuff online, unlike shopping in grocery, we are unable to compare product and ask people's advice. Therefore, 2 aspects are affecting people's decision most, 1) what other people's comments on the product, 2) what are similar products.

One tool can help comparing similar products, make sure you have used it well before you go shopping online. It is an application written in Adobe Flex 2, a new programming language that is able to move traditional windows application to Web based.

Now we are talking Web 2.0, what is it, Blogging, Wiki, AJAX, community sharing, Web services. Another important concept for web 2.0 is we now going to face "the Platform of Future", that is more applications will be used in web. There will be less dependency on operating system, less need for software installation. Its benefit is obvious, having better security & support, less maintenance cost. IT people call it Web 2.0, none- IT can call it business 2.0.

Google introduced iGoogle today (May 2nd 2007), a personalised web platform. It has hundred applications or gadgets allowing customer to customise. The trend is Google and other IT companies will bring more and more business related application to web based, such as Microsoft's Word, Excel, Visio. Microsoft is not far behind on this either, its windows presentation foundation to be release in 2008 is really fascinating.

Make sure you have searched Amazon properly before you go shopping online - search Amazon

What is iGoogle.

iGoogle is an application that focuses on implementing Google`s technology – and search technology in general – into different mediums, one being your desktop. It has 4 features
Google Search, Google Mail, Desktop Search and News Search, it will charge you $25 for a full version.

You are kidding, this iGoogle is published by YazaaWeb Inc. Not by Google.

Come to the real story, Google launched its personalised homepage today, calling YouGoogle might be a better name. Nowadays, there are too many names starting with "i", but less with "You".

The trend is personalised web will be replacing windows application or Lotus workspace (which is handled by IBM websphere), it is the platform of the future (possibly not future anymore, platform of now). What is behind it, XML, webservices, and AJAX.

One thing I am not satisfied is it browser compatibility, I played Google Bubbles (don't know what it is), but this is message I got, "Technically, this gadget does work with Internet Explorer but the animations are much smoother and faster in the Firefox browser. If you are still using IE this would be a good time to switch.". Well, possibly iGoogle should consider using Adobe's Flex more.