The failure of Ask.com, the highly competitive search market and Google's monopoly

A week ago Ask.com, which was one of the top contenders in the search battle announced that it gave up and wanted to shut down its search business. The company which had magnificent power and market share in the 90s couldn’t quiet move up with the innovations and fast changes by company’s like Google. Like most other search engines ask.com could not have been satisfied with the small revenues as it had a huge expectations from the public which had invested billions in it. [Read more...]

The secrets of Google page rank revealed (Well almost!)

Google pagerank has a huge influence on your traffic no doubt on that, and I’m one of the few who learnt it the tough way as I was penalized from PR 4 to PR 1, the reason? I still have no idea. Not only me, there are many people out there who have experienced the same, moreover 8 out of 10 bloggers are often confused about the aspects which influences their PR, many say that they have a hell lot of links but Google still hasn’t updated, whereas a few others achieve high page ranks within a few months and very less backlinks. [Read more...]

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