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AOL Ends Truveo Startup Status
The video search engine Truveo didn't spend very much time as a stand-alone company, as AOL came calling with a briefcase full…
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Murdoch: MySpace The Next Big Portal
Take the News Corp publisher's vast fortune, add it to the very popular social networking site MySpace, and suddenly Rupert Murdoch is playing Fox to the major portal sites like MSN, Yahoo, and AOL.
Performance Issues For WMF
Microsoft recently faced a tough challenge, dealing with the "zero-day" exploit. This past week they released a fix early instead of on the standard patch Tuesday in order to alleviate the fears of users around the world. Over the weekend, another problem with the WMF turned up.
What to Watch With Google Video
The Google Video store is finally open and the Google Blog lists some of its content providers.
Have SEMs Learned The Super Bowl Lesson?
The 24 hours following Super Bowl XL will be the litmus test gauging the advertising world's skill at integrating their offline and online campaigns. Those who've successfully stretched the $2.6 million spent on a 30-second spot will no doubt have ensured their brand's presence in the search engines and have rewarded the searcher once they've hit the advertiser's website.
Google Pulls Away From The Rest
Google's share of search queries has grown to 47 percent over the last three years. But, the no-frills homepage isn't pulling searchers away from Yahoo!, whose busy portal page has held runner-up status over the same time period, but rather from the chronically third-place MSN. If a search party has left the Redmond campus querying for their lost searchers, they can save the tread on…
