Microsoft Experiments With Customized Results

You have to give it up to Microsoft for tenacity. The company’s been sound trounced by Google in search, yet they haven’t given up their search ambitions. Most recently, Microsoft has been conducting a search experiment called U Rank. It’s not entirely original, of course. Google’s been experimenting with personalized search results for a while now. U Rank is accessible via existing members’ Windows Live…

EU Warns Music Fans About MP3 Players

A new European Union study shows that 5-10 percent of personal music player listeners risk permanent hearing loss, if they listen to a personal music player for more than one hour per day each week at a high volume over a 5-year span.A European safety standard is already in place that restricts the noise level of personal music players to 100 decibels, but there is…

German Court Comes Down On Google’s Thumbnail Images

Either Google Germany's lawyers aren't up to snuff, or they're just stuck in a really hostile environment.  Regardless, a new report indicates that two court rulings would have Google stop showing certain thumbnail images in its search results.