This one is a little tongue in cheek, or barbed wire caught in cheek :-)

In my research on today's post on acquisitions by large tech companies, I Googled this term: cisco +m&a.

Imagine my surprise and delight when SiliconValleyWatcher was the highest ranked online news publication at number three on the page.

The only other news source listed was BusinessWeek.com, at number 10, and it was below the fold and thus required an extra click(!)

Ouch, that must hurt. Cisco and its mergers and acquisitions strategy are such inseparable terms, yet BusinessWeek.com can't beat out SiliconValleyWatcher.com? (That's why our sponsors and advertisers are smart, very smart.)

BTW, we do not resort to any search engine optimization techniques. Therefore Google computes a pure page rank based on what the Internet community says is important.