Stephen Bolen's Internet Awesomesauce

I mean, why else would they take out a 1:00 ad in the 3rd Quarter of the Super Bowl?
Sure, a minute of Super Bowl air time is the equivalent of a rounding error for Google, but plunkin’ down the cheddar to put some distance between themselves and Bing may not be a bad play. I’ll [...]

In his latest Alertbox e-mail, usability expert Jakob Nielsen has some unusually great ideas for Steve Ballmer, Microsoft and the $50B they saved from walking out on the Yahoo! deal:
a) Give back to the websites that create the content that search engines currently scrape for free: pay sites for only being indexed in one search [...]

Ars nails it:
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Anniston. Bridget Moynahan and Tom Brady. Romeo and Juliet. And now, there’s Microsoft and Yahoo.
You can add the Microsoft-Yahoo love story to that list of famous break-ups and jilted lovers, as Steve Ballmer has officially withdrawn his three-month-old offer to combine the companies. According to a press release close [...]