With the big Yahoo Microsoft deal announced, there are still a lot of questions out there, despite the significant amount of information the companies have shared thus far. We know that Bing will become the search engine used in Yahoo searches. We also know that Microsoft will acquire an exclusive 10-year license to Yahoo’s core search technologies.
Over 50 Million Facebook Users Related to Somebody
If you’re a Facebook user, you’ve almost certainly encountered the "We’re Related" app in one way or another. Whether or not you have actually participated in it, you have probably at least seen an invitation.
Google Aims to Improve Health-Related Searches
Google is researching how users of the search engine search the web when someone they know is sick. Google calls this a temporary experiment, but one that people might find interesting.
This experiment will trigger a poll question on a small percentage of random health-related searches. In cases where these occur, users will see see boxes like these in their search results:
Bezos’ Funding Of Speech Studies Kindle Related?
Billionaires donate to lots of causes for lots of reasons. Sometimes the donations are business related and sometimes they’re not.
eBay Founder Now Working On Twitter-Related Service
The phrase "private pre-alpha" hasn’t ever before been used to describe something on Murdok, and it conjures up overkill images of two guys whispering to each other behind six-foot walls. But that’s how a new service backed by Pierre Omidyar and Randy Ching was until recently classified, and the small amount of information that’s since leaked looks rather interesting.
MySpace Experiencing Ad-Related Revenue Difficulties
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.
Google News Suggests Related Searches
It’s not by any means a revolutionary feature, and to be honest, it’s probably not even something that you’ll use once a day. Still, the introduction of related search suggestions to Google News seems like a solid idea.
Amazon Tries to Strong-Arm Kindle-Related Sites
Jason Schramm registered the domain KindleReport.com a while ago to report on Amazon’s ebook, the Kindle*.
Site- And Source-Related Updates To Google Earth
Improvements to the search engine at Google.com are undeniably newsworthy, but on a sort of life-and-death scale, adjustments to the Google News engine are also important. And a few changes (and reminders) cropped up recently.
Explore The Connections Between Related Websites
TouchGraph is a java application of a Google browser that lets you explore the connections between related websites.