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UK market leaders Bigmouthmedia got a good kicking this weekend when they lost the coveted number one spot at Google for the keyphrase search engine optimisation.

The company was founded in 1997 have a team of over 200 staff across 13 offices in 10 countries on 3 continents - they have held the number one position for years apart from a few days when “something special” involving BMW happened.

To add insult to injury I believe that one of the companies that have risen above them, Cybernetmedia, is a one guy operation - well, good for you matey if this is true.

But top of Google’s pops this fine sunny morning is HighPosition - so good luck to them.

It’s reassuring to know that anything is still possible in this unpredictable industry of ours - even if we have dropped a place in the last day or two…

How long this will last is anyone’s guess but someone at Bigmouth must be hurting this morning.

A friend just Skyped me a link to Microsoft’s (new?) SEO offer - “Improve your search-engine rankings and start attracting more sales leads to your company’s website.”

Now I’ve been around awhile and I’ve seen ‘em come and go but this caught me unawares. Still, healthy competition is a good thing, yeah?

Hang on though, don’t Microsoft have a reputation for crushing their competitors?

Read about it here

With an amazing offer of £15.50 per share (62% more than the closing price of Yahoo shares on the US stock market on Thursday) Microsoft is offering £22.4bn for Yahoo one of the web’s largest portal/search destinations.

Big enough to upset Google?

More on the Forbes site here