Bing needs to improve when news breaks
Minutes following reports last month that Michael Jackson had been rushed to hospital, Microsoft's search engine buried news results for searches on his name.
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Hotmail gets more Bing with new quick add menu
Users of the popular Web mail service can now do Bing searches that can be stuck inside of outgoing messages and replies.
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Google image search gets usage rights filtering
Google updates its image search to let users filter by images they can reuse and repurpose, which may keep the search giant from getting into hot water with content creators.
Find more stories in: Copyright, Spam filtering, Regulations, Data Management, Creative Commons, Google Inc., Tool, Wikipedia, photograph, image search
URL shortening is hot--but look before you leap
Fueled by Twitter's popularity, services to abbreviate Web addresses are taking off. They bring a host of problems, but some are working to fix them.
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Yahoo search pad: An online notebook that watches you
The portal will launch new tool to help people organize research conducted on its Internet search engine.
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Google sued by makers of Finally Fast
Lawsuit pending over advertisers bidding on keywords involving trademarks they don't own, while also alleging Google has unfairly manipulated search results.
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Net neutrality gets boost from US govt
The Obama administration includes the FCC's net neutrality principles as conditions for some of the funds it will allocate as part of the economic stimulus package.
Find more stories in: PKI (public key infrastructure), Service level management, Federal Government, Network administration/implementation, Business broadband, Democrat, Broadband, Cable, Net Neutrality, Government
Mozilla's crowdsourcing mystique
For-profit companies such as Google and LinkedIn, strain to copy the Firefox Web browser maker's model of relying on volunteer developers.
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China outlaws virtual money for trading
Chinese government decrees virtual currency not legal tender in transactions involving real-world products and services, but allows it to be purchased by real money.
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Google Toolbar for IE speaks your language
Google's Internet Explorer to introduce revamped translation tools, giving users one-click powers of conversion over many languages.
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Green Dam delay: How long will it last?
Postponement allows Chinese government to finetune initiative and resolve confusion, experts say. One vendor reportedly has started selling PCs with filtering software.
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Facebook cleans up its privacy controls
Social networking site will transition users to new settings through use of opt-in tool, as it works to make more profile content public and do away with regional networks.
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Digg tweaks search, dupe detection
Social site now better at collecting Diggs under canonical URLs, and tracking them too.
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Firefox 3.5 released for download
The major upgrade to the popular open source browser provides private surfing, location awareness and support for HTML 5 features such as open standards video.
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Yahoo redesigns data center, ditches carbon offsets
A new data center in Lockport, N.Y., is part of a strategy that Yahoo believes will allow it to end carbon offset purchases to reach carbon-neutral status.
Find more stories in: Green IT, David Filo, Yahoo! Inc., Governor, Server, New York, co-founder, strategy, data center, leadership
Yahoo enables twittering via Flickr
For those who want another way to keep their Twitter feed fed, Yahoo's photo-sharing site now has a direct conduit to the microblogging service.
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How many Facebook users will go public?
Facebook now asks users if they want their comments open to the public. So far, few do but marketers are salivating at the potential.
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Facebook names a CFO, at last
David Ebersman, former chief financial officer of Genentech, takes over CFO role in September replacing Gideon Yu, who left this spring.
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Report: Microsoft to cut Razorfish loose
The tech titan is reportedly looking for a buyer for its Internet ad agency, which it acquired in 2007 as part of its US$6 billion Aquantive takeover.
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Yahoo shareholders content to wait and see
CEO Bartz promised to turn Yahoo around by focusing on content and organization in her first annual shareholder meeting.
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