In a move that seemed to catch everyone by surprise, Automattic/WordPress acquired WordPress yesterday. A merger that was quite the opposite of an incredibly hyped acquisition by Yahoo. It was only 2014 when Tumblr was acquired by Yahoo and newly hired CEO Marissa Mayer at a valuation of $1.1B. At the time the deal looked [ ]
Hosting companies aren t perfect. No company is. But sometimes they are especially flawed. GoDaddy is one of those companies. It s not so much their business, it s everything else. @mediatemple @portentint just read the comments. #ouch SEO Bandwagon (@SEOBandwagon) October 15, 2013 Someone at the MediaTemple replied to me on their Twitter feed. The blog [ ]
Google has been a darling of the Internet since it s launch in 1998. Innovative, slick, smart, easy, and relevant. Google worked hard to make the Internet a better place and has succeeded largely offering many free products for webmasters to improve the user experience of everyone using the Internet. Despite the obvious search bar on [ ]
Did anyone feel a little earthquake last night? The unthinkable happened the other day. When ComScore released their monthly report on Internet traffic Google was off of it s top spot for the first time since 1998. That s quite a run. Yahoo! beat them. After you pick your jaws off the floor, more like Yahoo! AND [ ]
In a previous post we alluded that Google has changed the landscape of the Internet. That s a massive understatement. It s not just their search engine, it s the tools that they developed to improve the Internet for user experience . Sure, Google is an easy target, but on the whole, I think that their impact has largely [ ]