'microsoft' Category

• MSN adCenter User Community Vexation

  I’m going, someday, to write about a web site or business that I like… I promise. In the meantime, here’s another nutty bit of Microsoft activity. In September, the Bing and Yahoo search network will merge in the UK. While you can now do some activity on those networks and generate some business, because neither [...]

  July 7th, 2011

• Google Product Search, Ciao, Foundem and the right to make a buck in search results

  The Telegraph gives some details about the cases being brought against Google in Europe, about product search results. Who’s complaining, and about what, makes for some interesting speculation. Let’s have a look at what Google Product Search is, and does, first… so we’ve got some context. Google Product Search It’s free. Anyone can sign up, [...]

  February 24th, 2010

• SEOMoz article on IIS

  I blogged about some of the issues involving IIS and case folding over on SEOmoz. Some interesting suggestions. Best comment so far from “G-Force”, to embed some ASP code in each page that checks the file name, and 301′s to the “right” case variant. Heavy work – individual page edit for each unique page. Unless, [...]

  September 26th, 2008

• SEO, IIS case folding filenames, Spiders, Analytics, and Robots.Txt

  AFAICS, the best way to administer IIS for SEO purposes, seems to be to run screaming from the room and hide under a desk until you are allowed to use Apache. So many of the default behaviours create difficulties for users or SEO. Yes, I’ve been continuing to dig into web analytics and IIS web [...]

  August 20th, 2008

• IIS Cookieless Generates Spider Crawling Problems

  Another case of Web Server Log File Analysis on IIS being disturbed by bots, having the potential for SEO naughtiness and spamming the search engines. The problem is created by IIS’s cookieless model. The idea appears to be to present a unique string in the path so you can track sessions without needing a cookie. [...]

  August 18th, 2008

• Microsoft and Yahoo – Read Him, Not Me.

  I’ve just been pointed to a masterful article about the proposed Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo. You know, I thought I’d written in below, about how a service company (Yahoo) and a product company (MS) would have integration problems – an issue I’ve seen before in startups where competent managers in one type of operation failed [...]

  February 8th, 2008

• Microsoft + Yahoo = Opportunity

  Microsoft and Yahoo will doubtless want to capitalise on their current successes. Yahoo’s increasing Display Ad business is interesting. If they can use stuff like the targeting piloted by Microsoft AdCenter, and improve the control and measurement systems, they can take away Google’s toys…. and advertisers. In the UK, Google has over 80% of search [...]

  February 1st, 2008

• Windows drives me nuts

  I had a high priority task to get done, and took over an hour to log in. I have an active AntiVirus package for my Windows system. It detected nothing recently. Was I a rare victim of a Day Zero attack? Particularly vexatious is that the screen saver keeps running. As you are trying to [...]

  May 9th, 2007

• Microsoft AdCenter, CPC and Revenue

  When you start your own advertising platform, what expectation of revenue should you have? What does this imply for possible strategies for Redmond? Can throwing cash at the problem make it go away?

  April 5th, 2007

• Windows, now and then

  Now: 9 Nov 2006 [Jim] Allchin [Microsoft VP] Suggests Vista Won’t Need Antivirus During a telephone conference with reporters yesterday, outgoing Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, while touting the new security features of Windows Vista, which was released to manufacturing yesterday, told a reporter that the system’s new lockdown features are so capable and thorough that [...]

  November 10th, 2006