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Searches For Cheap Gas (Sort Of) Unite Society
Gas prices aren’t as bad now as they have been in the past, but they’re certainly not good. And as usual, search…
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ChaCha Gets Extra-Important $10M In Funding
In a series B round of funding, the Indiana 21st Century Research and Technology Fund showed its confidence in ChaCha by tossing in $2 million. Morton Meyerson must really like ChaCha, though - he gave the human-powered search company $8 million.
Widget Growth Driven By Social Networks
Users of widgets are more likely to receive them from friends than from companies that created them, according to a new report from JupiterResearch, "Widgets: Delivering Applications Users Want." User between the ages of 18-24 are six times more likely to receive widgets from friends than from a company.
Free WSJ Online Access Coming
Rupert Murdoch plans to make WSJ.com free to increase readership and generate far more in advertising. Right now the site gets 1 million viewers and Murdoch hopes to see it go to 15 million. For now a subscription just to the online edition is $79 for a year.
Could Google Finally Deliver On Old AOL Promises?
Two years ago next month, Google bought five percent of AOL for a billion dollars. Yeah, you might have forgotten that, but it was a really big deal at the time. While Google’s main motivation was to keep being the search technology for fifth-place AOL Search, there was a lot of talk on both sides about the two companies working together. The big get, mentioned…
Google Maps Adds CleanScores Ratings
Google Maps now integrates ratings from CleanScores, a website which shows you which establishments have failed food inspections.
