Home About Contact Search Engine Optimization | Search Engine Tools and Downloads 50+ Google and Yahoo Search Shortcuts Cheat Sheet Email Ann Smarty Follow me on Twitter Ann Smarty 04/20/09 19 Comments A shortcut in general is defined as “a route shorter than the usual one.&# What a shortcut does / where it is used Google Yahoo! MORE >>

Way back in January, I predicted (see #8) that Microsoft's Bing would overtake Yahoo in share to become #2 in search. These figures do not consider the Yahoo/Bing's search deal. share of search volume in August 2010, a 0.25% delta increase from last month. Yahoo! share in July 2010 to 13.1% (a 1.2% with a 13.9% MORE >>

All the top players here in the US - Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Yahoo, Microsoft - are driven by the value created by their developer base. Yeah, I said Yahoo. But after those meetings, I did come away with a sense that Yahoo has a chance to be something none of the other major companies on the web can be: Truly neutral. MORE >>

From Paid Content, a tale of two very different eras: Yahoo In 1996. Net income: $355 million-plus (2010 estimates). Age: 1 year. Annual sales: $1.3 million. Net loss: $0.6 million. Total raised in IPO: $33.8 million. Market value at close: $848 million. Employees: 49. Facebook In 2012. Age: 8 years. Annual sales: $1.2 billion-plus. MORE >>

Related: Predictions 2010. So how did I do for 2010? To the results: Prediction #1: 2010 will mark the beginning of the end of US dominance of the web. I think this clearly happened in 2010. 2010 will be remembered as the year privacy took center stage. 2009 Predictions. 2009 How I Did. 2008 Predictions. Score: +1. MORE >>