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What the Yahoo-Microsoft deal means

Yahoo and Microsoft concluded an agreement last week that will see Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, used on Yahoo. This effectively creates a new rival to Google, the search-engine giant. How does this affect us? Locally Bing has an estimated search market share of 4% and Yahoo 2%. Their combined market share of 6% is still […]

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Jobs now more popular than sex

I recently had a look at Google Trends and noticed that jobs have now finally overtaken sex as the most searched term in South Africa. Google trends monitor what people search for on Google in South Africa. This information is displayed over time and provides an insight into current affairs. In the graph below, the […]

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It’s the story that sells

Recently I was in Stone Town, Zanzibar, browsing the large selection of local paintings on offer. When I engaged one of the vendors in friendly barter, the sales pitch unfolded. I was told by the vendor that he had painted it. Isn’t it romantic to buy art from the artist himself? I decided to do […]