Ex-Yahoo Employees Have Decent Job Prospects

Yahoo's recovering - sort of - from the slide that led Microsoft to make its offer.  Layoffs, layoffs, and more layoffs were part of its path to improvement, though, so it's nice to hear that at least some former Yahoo employees aren't exactly wandering the streets.

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Byron Review Will Affect UK’s Game Ratings

Late last year, the British Prime Minister asked a clinical psychologist to look at the risks the Internet and video games pose to children.  Dr. Tanya Byron has now come back with several suggestions that the government has said it will follow.

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If They’re Searching, Give Them A Hint

I remember sitting in on a session at one of the Search Engine Strategies conferences as a befuddled metrics firm rep told a crowd of equally befuddled marketers that a significant percentage of the search population actually typed the URL of the desired website into the search bar.

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AOL TV Poll Says Oprah Best Interviewer

A new poll by the AOL Television Web site found that viewers favorite daytime TV host was Ellen Degeneres who received 46 percent of the vote beating out Oprah Winfrey who pulled in 19 percent of the vote.

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Google Gives Advice On Universal Search

Google had posted 'recommendations on how to take advantage of universal search' last year, in an effort to let the webmasters receive more relevant search traffic. In spite of this previous post, at the SMX West conference last month 'universal' and 'personalized' search remained the core of the conference topics.

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