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Yahoo Real-Time Search Test May Be Days Away

A little more information regarding Yahoo's take on real-time search has emerged, and the details - scarce as they are - sound encouraging.  Another key point is that public testing of the real-time search feature may be just a few days away. As we've said before, real-time search will be a tricky thing for Yahoo.  Google and Facebook have already made their first efforts in…

iPhone Most Popular Touchscreen Device

Touchscreen mobile phone adoption in the U.S. showed a significant 159 percent growth rate during the past year to 23.8 million users, according to a new report from comScore. The growth in touchscreen device adoption outpaced the already strong 63 percent growth in U.S. adoption of smartphones.

Turkey Asks Google For $47 Million In Taxes

It seems that Google's accounting practices may not be quite in line with accepted Turkish procedures.  In fact, Turkey's government has determined that the search giant owes it a little over $47 million in unpaid taxes.

Feds Charge Cable Modem Hacker

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged an Oregon man and the company he founded, TCNISO, alleging they developed and distributed products that allowed users to modify their cable modems and get free Internet access.

Google and Heineken Study Search for Branding

This week Google released some findings from a test Google Netherlands conducted with Metrixlab, Heineken, and Heineken's agency Twist. They set out to find what effects paid search ads had on branding, and were quite pleased with the results.