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New York Times:
An Ad Upstart Forces Google to Open Up a Little — Google and Yahoo have been fighting it out over which company will dominate the online advertising business, with Google maintaining the upper hand so far. — But in the competition for contextual text ads — those small sponsored links …
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Google to begin sharing URLs where AdWords advertiser's ads are being run — The New York Times ran an article about Quigo, a contextual advertising company that targets premium sized publishers. In the story, comments from both Yahoo & Google were included.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Microsoft to Buy Health Information Search Engine — Microsoft's drive into the health care market is just getting under way, but the company signaled on Monday that one important ingredient in its plan will be a specialized search engine tailored to deliver useful medical information to consumers.
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Search Engine Watch Blog
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Microsoft Demonstrates Further Commitment to Healthcare Market With Planned Acquisition of Web Search Company — Medstory's intuitive technology designed to improve access to health information and empower consumers to make better-informed health decisions.
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VentureBeat, WebProNews, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Digital Markets, Microsoft News Tracker and Paul Mooney
Microsoft:
Microsoft Highlights Healthcare Strategy at HIMSS 07 Conference — Q&A: As healthcare-technology specialists gather in New Orleans, Microsoft experts discuss new information technologies designed to provide lower costs, better outcomes and improved access to care.
New York Times:
Google in Content Deal With Media Companies — Google built an empire delivering advertisements across the Internet, and now it plans to distribute content from media companies just as aggressively. — Google is working with Dow Jones & Company, Condé Nast, Sony BMG Music Entertainment …
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Problems arise with Vista's validation — Last year, when Microsoft announced a new anti-piracy infrastructure for Windows Vista, I was skeptical. Here's what I wrote at the time: … And now, only weeks after the retail launch of Windows Vista, early Vista adopters are experiencing a wave of validation and activation problems.
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Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
EMI: DRM stays — EMI has broken off talks with digital music download services about providing a DRM-free repertoire. — EMI was always tipped as the most likely of the "Big Four" to break ranks with its peers and supply music unencumbered by DRM. It's the smallest of the four major labels …
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comScore:
comScore Data Show Yahoo!'s New Ranking Model Has Had Initial Positive Impact on Sponsored Search Click-Through Rates — comScore Networks, a leader in measuring the digital age, today released the results of a study analyzing the changes in Yahoo!'s click-through rates for sponsored search ads since …
Bob Tedeschi / New York Times:
New Hot Properties: YouTube Celebrities — No one would mistake the Ask a Jew guy for Lonelygirl15, but these days YouTube contributor Shmuel Tennenhaus is feeling like a hot commodity. — Mr. Tennenhaus, an aspiring comedy writer who gained a modest following on YouTube for his droll question …
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
YouTube and Google Video Player in Google SERPs: This Is EVIL — Google caused some major controversy by prominently recommending Blogger to all users who searched for blog-related terms. So how will bloggers react now that Google is experimenting with Google Video and YouTube players in the search results themselves?
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Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:Number Two Result in Google For "Shoes" is YouTube
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Cho Jin-seo / KoreaTimes:
Samsung Sisters Vie for LCD Record — Samsung SDI has developed the slimmest liquid crystal display (LCD) for mobile phones, breaking the record set by its sister firm Samsung Electronics only three months ago. — The display maker said the new prototype module is only 0.74 millimeters thick …
Daniel E. Slotnik / New York Times:
Too Few Friends? A Web Site Lets You Buy Some (and They're Hot) — Popularity was never easily measured, until the advent of social-networking sites. Now, prospective employers and others can gain some insights into an applicant's lifestyle and character by looking at a person's social-networking page …
Lewis Page / The Register:
Windows for Warships nears frontline service — Analysis Everyone knows the differences between Windows and other operating systems. Steve Jobs has recently spent colossal sums telling us that most malware is written for Windows; also that using Windows is no fun and, even worse, seems to involve wearing a tie.
Gizmodo:
Ogo 2.0: Kinda Like Sidekick, But Only Europe Likes It — The Ogo cellphone, which nobody here liked, is getting a new baby brother to play with: Ogo 2.0. (Was the naming guy on vacation?) Sharing the same basic shape as the original, Ogo 2.0 tries to better itself by including a higher resolution display …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Quintura Visual Search Engine Relaunches — At around 8 AM PST this morning, Moscow-based search engine Quintura will relaunch its visual search engine with a new user interface (if it looks like the screen shot below, it's launched). — The company, which is backed by Mangrove Capital Partners …
Martyn Williams / InfoWorld:
Apple, Samsung, Sandisk sued over MP3 — Texas MP3 Technologies claims the companies infringed its patent covering 'an MPEG portable sound reproducing system' — Little-known Texas MP3 Technologies is taking on Apple, Samsung Electronics, and Sandisk with a patent-infringement lawsuit.
