No Alarms And No Surprises: Google’s All About Search

Last week, a Hitwise analysis of Yahoo's properties showed that search wasn't the company's most popular service, and also that it depended a lot on Google for traffic.  A new look at Google's properties shows that search makes up the Mountain View giant's backbone, and that as time goes by, the industry leader is increasingly self-sufficient.

Microsoft’s Yahoo Interest: Patently Paid Search

Way back in the pre-publicly traded days of Google, the search advertising company settled a patent case with Yahoo. Four years later, that settlement may be key to Microsoft's interest in Yahoo's paid search business.

Getty To Sell Stock Photography Through Flickr

Yahoo! Inc. - Getty Images and Flickr Announce Exclusive Partnership to Offer New Collection of Creative Imagery Getty Images and Yahoo today announced a partnership which will allow Getty Images to begin marketing select images that Flickr users upload online.

Google Does A Little Privacy Razzle Dazzle

The Center for Democracy & Technology's analysis of behavioral ad targeting done at the ISP level, which claims such targeting "may run afoul of federal and state wiretap laws," comes at a pretty convenient moment for Google. Both the search ad company and the CDT are testifying in front of the Senate Commerce Committee this morning for a hearing about behavioral targeting and privacy.

New Getty Deal Compliments Flickr’s Photographers

Here's the less exciting side of a new development: Flickr users aren't being given any choice other than to go about their business as usual.  But on the more interesting front: Getty Images will begin swooping in to offer some of them commercial opportunities.