Google, News Corp Might Be Bidding On Blinkx
A word here, a number there . . . nothing remotely solid has been established, but rumors that Google and/or News Corp…
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A word here, a number there . . . nothing remotely solid has been established, but rumors that Google and/or News Corp…
A public service or draconian narc network? You be the judge. It didn't take long for a few things to happen with Twitter: for so-called spammers to seek out a "marketing" advantage; for Twitterers to fight back against said spammers; and for a moral authority to form.
To be fair, I think any one of us would be thrilled to move 140 million copies of something. But Microsoft is held to a higher standard, and so Bill Gates's positive comment about Vista sales is raising some eyebrows.
The bellowing fellow now immortalized as Mr. Angry Overreaction Man demanded a photographer not put his raging visage online. You can guess what happened next.
The good news, from News Corp's perspective, is that MySpace is continuing to grow. The bad news is that profiting off social ads is tougher than the corporation had expected.
Anyone who's ever found traditional search results to be a little one-dimensional should be glad to hear that Yahoo's addressing the issue. Something called Glue Pages Beta slaps together normal search results, Google Blog Search results, Yahoo Answers results, HowStuffWorks articles, Wikipedia entries, Flickr images, and YouTube videos all in one place.