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Roughly ten days ago, Robert Scoble suggested that Facebook would, in a few years’ time, defeat Google. Pretty much everyone within hearing…
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Roughly ten days ago, Robert Scoble suggested that Facebook would, in a few years’ time, defeat Google. Pretty much everyone within hearing…
Google is throwing its weight behind the Patent Reform Act, expected to come to a vote in the House of Representatives later this week. The company feels excessive patent litigation is a drag on the free market.
Google’s search dominance has reached legendary proportions, and the term “Google killer” has become something of a joke. But there’s word that a number of powerful companies, along with the Japanese government, will work together to challenge the search giant.
Does anybody out there use Yahoo Messenger’s chat rooms? If your answer is “not anymore” you’d be in the majority. If your answer is “yes,” then you’re probably a viral marketing robot.
Users of Facebook will have their profiles indexed by the likes of Google and Yahoo unless they opt to keep their listings from appearing in search engines.
The latest contribution to the Google Public Policy blog, on the topic of patent reform and Google's stance, received a pointed rebuttal from a Brookings Institution guest scholar.