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Microsoft:
Microsoft Reports Record Revenue — Quarter marks the successful business launches of Windows Vista, the 2007 Microsoft Office system and Exchange Server 2007 — Segment Revenue/Operating Income(Loss) — Microsoft Corp. today announced record revenue of $12.54 billion for the quarter ended December 31 …
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Between the Lines, Got Ads?, Seeking Alpha, The Next Net, PaidContent and Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft 'not happy' with search results — Microsoft is continuing to lose market share in the search business to industry rival Google, something the software maker's financial chief said Thursday he is "not happy" about. — And things aren't expected to turn around any time soon.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Kills Miserable Failure & Other Google Bombs — After just over two years, Google has finally defused the "Google Bomb" that has returned the official George W. Bush biography at the top of its results in a search on miserable failure. The move wasn't a post-State Of The Union Address gift for Bush.
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Matt Cutts / Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
A quick word about Googlebombs — Co-written with Ryan Moulton and Kendra Carattini — We wanted to give a quick update about "Googlebombs." By improving our analysis of the link structure of the web, Google has begun minimizing the impact of many Googlebombs.
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Google Operating System
Mark Hachman / ExtremeTech:
Update: At Least 25 Million Americans Pirate Movies — Roughly 25 million Americans — or 18 percent of the U.S. online population — have illegally downloaded a full-length movie, a study released Wednesday asserts. — In a study of 2,600 Americans polled via telephone and online …
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Charlene Li / Charlene Li's Blog:
New ROI of blogging report from Forrester — Back in October, I posted our initial research on the ROI of blogging. Many of you contributed your ideas, thoughts, and criticisms - thanks so much as it was extremely helpful. — We've (finally) published the report - and actually, there are two of them.
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Kevin Poulsen / 27B Stroke 6:
MySpace Allegedly Kills Computer Security Website — Computer security guru Fyodor (pictured) reports waking up yesterday to find his website SecLists.org essentially removed from the web by his domain registrar, GoDaddy. After a bunch of phone calls to GoDaddy, he eventually got them to explain why: Because MySpace asked them too.
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Kevin Poulsen / 27B Stroke 6:
GoDaddy Defends SecLists Takedown — GoDaddy got back to me. General counsel Christine Jones defends taking down SecLists.org, saying that Fyodor had close to an hour to respond to GoDaddy's voicemail and e-mail warnings yesterday, and didn't. — "We couldn't reach him …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Google announces overhaul of Google Video strategy, plans for YouTube's future — When Google bought YouTube back in the fall of 2006, questions immediately arose: Is this the end of Google Video? Would Google integrate YouTube into the Google experience, or would it remain separate?
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Rcade / Workbench:
Amapedia: The Conspicuous Consumption Community Wiki — While browsing Amazon.Com this evening I noticed a reference to Amapedia, a collaborative wiki the company describes as a "community for sharing information about the products you like the most." — The site's newly launched …
Ryan Naraine / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Word Zero-Day Attack Discovered — Microsoft's security response team has launched an investigation into reports of a zero-day attack against a previously unknown vulnerability affecting its ever-present Microsoft Word program. — The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker said it's aware of …
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TechSpot
Ryan Carter / Download Squad:
AlZip unzips it al, um, all — I hate crippleware. I hate nag-ware, and all kinds of related vermin from the netherworld. Among them, WinZip for years has bugged the snot out of users instead of just providing a good product for free like the cool kids.
Terry Semel / Yodel Anecdotal:
Off to a great start — Panama: A country, a canal, or the next generation of Yahoo!'s search marketing? — Now that I've had a chance to catch my breath after announcing our quarterly earnings this week, I thought I'd reflect on something that I think is probably the most important news you've heard from us in a long time.
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Hillary Clinton, Yahoo Answers & the Power of Social Media — Hillary Clinton has turned to Yahoo Answers, the social media driven Q&A experience from Yahoo, to look for some ideas on how normal Americans would improve health care in the United States. — I find this quite interesting …
Lorelle VanFossen / Lorelle on WordPress:
Fear Not WordPress 2.1 and WordPress Plugins — The biggest fear I hear over and over again is that people do not want to upgrade because they are afraid their WordPress Plugin won't work. This is a good example of how important WordPress Plugins are to our WordPress blogs, as well as how dependent we've become on them.
