{"id":11359,"date":"2010-02-19T19:13:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T02:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11359"},"modified":"2010-02-19T19:13:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T02:13:47","slug":"eric-on-microhoo-vs-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11359\/eric-on-microhoo-vs-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric On MicroHoo vs Google"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the announcement today <\/a>of the fact that the Department of Justice has approved the deal inked last summer between Microsoft and Yahoo, came a flood of e-mail into my inbox this afternoon. <\/p>\n

“What does this mean for search?” <\/p>\n

“What does it change?”<\/p>\n

“Do we need to focus our organic search efforts more on Bing now that they are poised to power the results of Yahoo?”<\/p>\n

” Will they be a REAL competitor of Google?”<\/p>\n

“How will Google respond…or have they already?”<\/p>\n

“How might this play out in the long run?”<\/p>\n

Well, the truth of the matter is that I have been studying this on and off since last summer. Ironically, the Microhoo deal was announced while I was on my way to British Columbia to speak at the Real Estate Webmasters conference<\/a>. The topic continued to be the buzz while I flew on to San Francisco to speak at Home Gain Live Nation<\/a>. Why is that ironic? Well…I am just now finishing up the details of going to speak at the second HomeGain Nation Live event as well as going to speak on SEO at the RE\/MAX convention. Gonna make for some fun times on the panel at HomeGain in the afternoon and some fun conversations at RE\/MAX as well. I am stoked for both. But I know that interest will be there and questions will be asked by a lot of folks in the hallways… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

So while I have a lot to say about the merger (after all, I am the nerdy “read the patent applications, hiring patterns and etc sort of a search engine enthusiast…hehe), I am going to embargo most all of it until I speak at these events. I will say the following:<\/p>\n

1. Competition is good. It inspires innovation and spurs creativity if it is TRULY competitive.
\n2. Bing has some MAJOR relevance issues with their search results that need to get cleared up.
\n3. Google has a whopping lead in market share currently will the combination of two non competitors automagically transform them into a competitor?
\n4. How much leverage does Microsoft’s vast market presence in the PC market give them? Do you Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the announcement today of the fact that the Department of Justice has approved the deal inked last summer between Microsoft and Yahoo, came a flood of e-mail into my inbox this afternoon. “What does this mean for search?” “What does it change?” “Do we need to focus our organic search efforts more on Bing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-real-estate","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1651,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1651\/yahoo-adds-real-time-on-the-fly-search-term-suggestion\/","url_meta":{"origin":11359,"position":0},"title":"Yahoo adds real-time on-the-fly search term suggestion","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Simply brilliant. 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