The average contributed method of calculation of MGR or rakeback is dependent on the contributions made by the player. Under this method a player has to be dealt with and he also has to make contribution to the pot in some way.
The formula is: MGR = amount raked in the pot / number of players who contributed to the pot.
For example if there are only 5 players who are dealt with and only 3 contribute to the pot and theamount raked is $3 then each contributed player will get = $1 that is $3/3.
A Monthlong Magnification of Google: the Company, the Technologies, and the Extracurricular Activities
With over 66% of US search volume (1), Google is clearly the dominant player in search. And, though Google has more than three times the search volume of Yahoo, their closest competitor has managed to hang on to their competitive status despite Google's enormous growth. On April 9, 2008, Yahoo announced that it will be testing Google's web search ads on Yahoo's own search service (2). So, what does this mean for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and users?
The Yahoo-Google Test
In what has been discussed as an attempt to push Microsoft to raise its bid to purchase Yahoo, Yahoo has agreed to a two-week test of Google's search ads. Yahoo will serve Google search ads to approximately 3% of the users on Yahoo's own search services. Though there is no comment from Google or Yahoo on the likelihood of this becoming a larger scale or longer term deal, analysts and sources seem to think a more permanent agreement would be good for Yahoo:More Details>>
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer tells Yahoo's board he wants to complete a purchase deal by the end of April. Or else they will go right to shareholders.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer lowered the boom on Yahoo April 5, telling the company that if the two companies can't come to a decision regarding Microsoft's $31 per share purchase offer within three weeks, it will take its offer directly to Yahoo's shareholders.
Ballmer offered the ultimatum, which signals the beginning of a proxy fight, in a letter sent to Yahoo's board Saturday, an unusual move for a dialogue that has been conducted throughout the course of the business week.
The letter comes after Microsoft and Yahoo have held casual but fruitless negotiations regarding Microsoft's offer, which was worth $44.6 billion when it was first made Feb. 1, but has sunk to about $42 billion due to decline in both company's shares.http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Search/Microsoft-Gives-Yahoo-Ultimatum-on-Buyout-Offer/.More Details>>
The launch of Windows Vista has lifted Microsoft's Live Search share of the U.S. search market, but Microsoft's gain has come at the expense of Yahoo and Ask rather than Google.
"We saw a pretty substantial lift for the first time this year for Live Search," says Jeremy Crane, director of client services at Compete, an online market research firm. "And it happened to coincide with the consumer launch of Vista."
Live Search is the default search engine in Vista, a home-field advantage that Google has sought to counter with distribution deals for its search software.
In a blog post published today, Compete reported that Windows Live had received almost 590 million Web search queries in the United States in February, a 10% increase from 534 million in January.
During this period, Microsoft also saw a 10% increase in search query volume, which translates to a market share gain of 1 percentage point, moving Live Search from 8% to 9%.
Google also saw a market share gain of 1 percentage point during the same time frame as a result of a 3% gain in overall search volume, which reached almost 4 billion queries. Google's share of the U.S. search market in February rose to 63% from 62% the previous month.
Yahoo and Ask lost market share during this period, dropping from 23% to 21% and from 4% to 3% respectively. Yahoo's market share loss of 2 percentage points was the result of a 7% drop in search volume. Ask's market share loss followed from a 5% decline in search volume.
Last month, comScore Networks reported that Google had captured 47.5% of the U.S. search market in January, a significantly lower percentage than Compete counted. comScore also noted that Yahoo's U.S. search share dropped to 28%, Microsoft's rose slightly to reach 10.6%, and Ask's declined to 5.2%.
Crane attributes the difference in statistics to different methodologies. comScore, he says, includes a variety of online properties such as video search in its search numbers, whereas Compete only counts Web search.
