I used to think I would never say that, but: Thank you, Microsoft, for trying to acquire Yahoo! Monopolies are bad for markets and Google needs to be challenged. The timing couldn’t be better. Yahoo! had announced job cuts and lately and their advertising revenue used to be better too. Windows still sucks though.

They call it the Live Search Webmaster Center. Check it out at webmaster.live.com. The system went into public beta testing. Not that many functionalities but still better than nothing.

Nach der Übernahme von DoubleClick durch Google schlägt nun Microsoft zurück. Für etwa 6 Milliarden US-Dollar kaufen die Redmonder die Firma aQuantive. Zur aQuantive-Gruppe gehört auch Atlas. Die Firma bietet Tracking- und Optimierungslösungen für Online-Marketing. Atlas bedient dabei sowohl Advertiser und Agenturen als auch Publisher.