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Not too long ago, the most important things discussed on Facebook and Twitter related to people's relationships and what was for lunch. …
eBay held its 2009 Analyst Day today with CEO John Donahoe speaking on the company's future. As anticipated, a great deal of focus was put on PayPal.
Google’s trust of Democrats.org, the Democrat National Party’s official website, is being abused by cybercrooks to spread spam and malware via search results. Criminals are able to achieve high ranking for their sites in the search results simply by setting up a blog at the DNC website and passing on link juice from there.
What can you expect from Microsoft's rebranded search engine? A new name, and not a whole lot else from the sound of it. As you've probably read by now, Kumo is the name that is most commonly associated with the search engine, though Microsoft has not officially named it.
Today [Google is] launching "interest-based" advertising as a beta test on our partner sites and on YouTube. These ads will associate categories of interest…so if you visit an online sports store, you may later be shown ads on other websites offering you a discount on running shoes during that store’s upcoming sale.
In a story we covered earlier this month, John Battelle accidentally typed livesearch.com into his address bar only to find a domain squatter. This of course led to speculation that Microsoft was close to rebranding its Live Search. They clearly were not too concerned about getting that domain (it's still the same a couple weeks later).
