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Google Tips DoubleClick Integration Plans
(PC Magazine)
PC Magazine - After all the back and forth over whether Google's acquisition of DoubleClick would be anti-competitive or an invasion of our privacy, the search engine giant on Thursday released new details about how the online advertising company will be integrated into Google.
Yahoo - 9 hours ago

Google launches free music service in China
(Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc has launched a music search
service in China that will give users access to free downloads
of licensed songs, while capturing advertising revenue for
music providers in a market rife with piracy.
Yahoo - 2 days ago

New Google box for offices can search 10 mln files
(Reuters)
Reuters - Google Inc said on Tuesday it is
an offering an upgraded version of the hardware appliance its
sells to companies and government organizations for
Google-style Web search of office documents.
Yahoo - 2 days ago

Voting error overstated support for Yahoo board
(AFP)
AFP - Yahoo has updated the results of recent voting by shareholders, revealing that support for the Internet firm's board is far weaker than it appeared.
Yahoo - 2 days ago

Google Updates Maps For Symbian, Windows Mobile
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - To utilize the feature, users simply search for directions and destinations on a public transportation system and click on a transit tab.
Yahoo - 6 days ago

Cuil Needs To Fix Its Technology Before It Can Get Hot
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Search engine expert Stephen Arnold believes the surge of interest in Cuil shows there's a huge pent-up demand for an alternative to Google.
Yahoo - 7 days ago

New Search Site, Vista Redux, Guitar Hero Preview
(PC World)
PC World - Readers try out a search engine named Cuil, debate whether Vista deserves a second chance, and mull over Guitar Hero's song list.
Yahoo - July 31 - 2008

Sprint Updates Its Mobile Web Browser
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Dubbed "Sprint Web," the interface includes an adaptive homepage and a Google search bar.
Yahoo - July 31 - 2008

Norton Safe Web Beta Competes with SiteAdvisor
(PC World)
PC World - Symantec pulls the curtains from its Web search safety rating tool, but it has some catching up to do
Yahoo - July 31 - 2008

Rural Areas Hotbeds Of Twitter Searches, Social Networking
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Lightly populated areas are more prone to fostering online relationships because of travel constraints, a report from Gaebler Ventures suggests.
Yahoo - July 31 - 2008

Cuil 'crunches' Gmail, Shanghai Entrepreneur
(PC World)
PC World - New search engine Cuil seems to be off to a rocky start, associating some unrelated logos and photos with other content.
Yahoo - July 30 - 2008

Former Googleers Unveil Search Engine Called Cuil
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Cuil is offering a new search service that the company claims can index, faster and more cheaply, a far larger portion of the Web than Google.
Yahoo - July 29 - 2008

Cuil Challenges Google With Privacy
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Founded by husband-and-wife team Tom Costello and Anna Patterson, Cuil aims to rank the relevancy search results by content analysis rather than by popularity.
Yahoo - July 29 - 2008

Ex-Google engineers debut 'Cuil' way to search
(AP)
AP - Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.
Yahoo - July 28 - 2008

Ex-Googler, Husband Launch Cuil New Search Engine
(PC World)
PC World - A ex-Googler and her husband launched the Cuil search engine on Monday
Yahoo - July 28 - 2008

Former Googleers unveil Cuil, a new search engine
(Reuters)
Reuters - A start-up led by former
star Google engineers on Sunday unveiled a new Web search
service that aims to outdo the Internet search leader in size,
but faces an uphill battle changing Web surfing habits.
Yahoo - July 28 - 2008

Microsoft's Answer To Google's PageRank Algorithm: Less Privacy?
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - BrowseRank, Microsoft claims, can deliver better search results by measuring user behavior, including where users go and the amount of time they remain at those pages.
Yahoo - July 26 - 2008

To Expand Your Business, Go Home
(BusinessWeek Online)
BusinessWeek Online - Plenty of Web entrepreneurs start their ventures at home and move into commercial spaces only when they expand. Unity Stoakes and Steven H. Krein did it backwards. They ditched their office space in midtown Manhattan a year after founding OrganizedWisdom, a health search engine vetted by physicians, and sent their staff of nine to work from home. And after more than a year of running OrganizedWisdom remotely, Stoakes and Krein wouldn't do it any other way.
Yahoo - July 25 - 2008

Baidu Second-quarter Profit Grows 87 Percent
(PC World)
PC World - Baidu, China's most popular search engine, saw year-on-year profit for the second quarter of 2008 grow by almost 87 percent.
Yahoo - July 24 - 2008

Yahoo net profit falls nearly 19 percent
(Reuters)
Reuters - Yahoo Inc on Tuesday
posted a nearly 19 percent fall in net profit, and net revenue
short of lowered Wall Street expectations, as it faced a
weakening economy and the distraction of Microsoft Corp's
pursuit.
Yahoo - July 23 - 2008

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