Congressional Hearing For Google Print?

Google's list of allies in support of its massive Google Print for Libraries project is getting shorter by the day. Yesterday, the century-old National Consumers League sent a letter to Congress urging the government body to set up public hearings on the matter.

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Yahoolibaba Deal Complete

Yahoo! China (yes, the whole thing) is just the cherry on top of a deal between Yahoo! and China's largest e-commerce company, Alibaba. Completed on Monday, Yahoo! is ceding its entire Chinese leg to Alibaba and investing $1 billion in cash for 40 percent economic interest and 35 percent voting rights in the company.

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Google Blogs About Google Base

After yesterday's "inadvertent" unveiling of base.google.com, the search engine company provided some more details about what people saw and grabbed as screenshots.

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Yahoo Adds Trip Planner To Travel Search

With the leaves changing color, many feel the need to get out of the office and get on the road; Yahoo's newest product lets users get their trips planned using its services.

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Designing Your Site For The Search Engines

When you design a website, it's easy to focus on what your visitors are going to see. What you have to realise, though, is that you're going to have another kind of visitor with a completely different agenda: they're not going to be looking at your pretty logo and they're not going to be passing judgement on your background colour. What they're looking for is…

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