Yahoo Down, Hysterics Up

Google May Push IM Interoperability

With Google enabling open federation for its Talk product, will other instant messaging providers open their services for users to chat with people outside of their walled gardens?

$4.7 Billion Spent For Search Engine Placement

The Center For Media Research (CMR) reported on the study and projects even more will be spent in North American, hitting $11 billion by 2010. These totals including payments to search engines and search-related media companies, search engine marketing agencies and in-house expenditures in support of those programs. The programs they included covered search engine optimization, organic search engine optimization, and search engine market technology…