Well, Yahoo has officially rejected Microsoft’s $44.5 billion proposal. No biggie … Microsoft has other ways to get Yahoo — if they are truly serious.

I’m still thinking Microsoft’s ownership of Yahoo will be much better than giving 90+% of the pay-per-click business to Google. If Google gets Yahoo’s ad space, Google will be in position for an anti-trust case.

Well, they haven’t finalized the deal yet.  Hopefully they do.

Google’s now trying to bribe Yahoo into staying out of Microsoft’s hands.  No matter how you peel this onion, Google owning any piece of Yahoo should be an anti-trust issue.

Google’s “do no evil” would certainly be revoked IF Google gets its hands on Yahoo.  Owning more than 80% of the PPC market will certainly give Google more power than it should have.

If Microsoft could make a real play at improving search, the day it happens will be enjoyable for many people.

You ask why?  Short answer is I’m no Google fan.

Sure Microsoft has it’s problems, but doesn’t everyone?

Every now and again I’ll hear about how people have come up with ideas to hack an online store through various techniques. The latest technique is associated with The Pottery Barn, but according to reports it seems to work on other sites like William Sonoma.

The Pottery Barn 9- trick actually requires the website visitor to shop around and change the product number in the website address. I won’t tell how to do this.

At Merchant Metrix we’re concerned with our clients’ businesses and want to ensure hacks like this and others do not exist. This concern led us to develop a shopping cart software package that eliminates these and other problems.