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Hawaii to Decide if a Blogger is a Journalist
There’s an interesting case, going on in Hawaii, that could have far reaching ramifications for bloggers.
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Google, Salesforce.com May Partner
Google’s no wimp, but it never hurts to have help when doing battle with a company like Microsoft. A rumored partnership with Salesforce.com would provide just that, although the financial details (or even any information about the resulting products) are still unknown.
FeedBurner Deal Could Be Good For Google
The rumor that Google is eyeballing FeedBurner for a cool $100 million has folks talking about what that could mean for Google's search result relevancy, and the company's ability to identify splogs, differentiating them from legitimate blogs.
Google China Gives Birth To Life Search
Google may not always let Chinese citizens search for terms like “democracy,” but it’s apparently got no problems with things such as housing, work, and train tickets; a new Life Search engine available through Google China is tailored to deal with precisely these types of classifications.
Google Gives In To UK News Organizations
America, France, Belgium . . . these are the countries in which some news services have received payment in return for having their content carried by Google News, and now the UK has reportedly joined the gang. But don’t tell anyone - the arrangement is supposedly being kept quiet so that other organizations don’t request the same deal.
Microsoft’s aQuantive Buy: Yipes!
Six billion dollars for aQuantive puts Microsoft into the mix with Google, Yahoo, and newly-minted online advertising power WPP to battle over third party ad serving.
