Rand Fishkin is fully aware of how important it is for a website to rank high in a Google search. But even he, president of a SEO firm, was totally surprised by a proposal he received being a panelist at a SEO conference in London in February 2007.
The idea of merging forces was explored last year by Yahoo and Microsoft in an attempt to compete against Google. The talks led nowhere. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that executive of the two companies are taking a fresh look at the idea to merge the two companies to have some kind of a match-up, pairing the respective strengths of the companies. The Wall Street Journal reports that: \"The renewed talks are a sign of the continued...