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The Federal Trade Commission has recently taken an interest in regulation of blogs when it comes to bloggers receiving products and writing…
Remember all of that hype earlier this year about Wolfram Alpha? Some called it a Google killer, although most bloggers writing about the subject could pretty clearly see that it was no such thing. That didn't stop it from being a very highly touted product with lots of potential.
After checking out Bing's explanation of how it handles reference searches, it got me thinking how big of a role Wikipedia plays in search. Wikipedia entries are often among the top results in Google, and clearly they are a big part of Bing's strategy as well.
Spam volumes have risen 141 percent since March, continuing the longest streak of increasing spam volumes ever, according to McAfee's Q2 Threats Report, released today. More that 14 million computers have been hit by botnets, a 16 percent increase over last quarter. McAfee researchers also found that, over the course of 30 days, Auto-Run malware had infected more than 27 million files. Auto-Run malware, which…
Yahoo and Microsoft intend for their freshly announced search advertising deal to be completed in early 2010. That's not too far away, and in that deal, Bing will become the algorithmic search used by Yahoo. At that point, Bing becomes the clear competitor to Google in straight up search.
Well, they've finally gone and done it. Microsoft and Yahoo have partnered to "change the search landscape." The two companies today announced a long-awaited deal, in which Microsoft will power Yahoo search while Yahoo will become the exclusive search advertising provider for Microsoft's search engine, Bing. You know this history by now. Here's what the companies have to say:
