In 2009, Microsoft attempted to acquire Yahoo. The deal was rejected but a year later the two agreed on a ten-year joint venture, forming the Yahoo and Microsoft Search Alliance. The purpose of the Alliance was to gain market share and to compete more effectively with Google.
The industry of search will forever remember April 21st 2015, as the day that Google finally made mobile a part of its ranking factor in the algorithm. Or what has now affectionately been coined as ‘Mobilegeddon’.
The results of a landmark consumer neuroscience study will be published later this year showing that brain scans can indeed predict the effectiveness of marketing material. But there’s a catch, only the most expensive fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) scans were found to offer any additional value over simply asking people what they think.
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