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Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo-Google Deal Advances — Yahoo Inc. moved closer to outsourcing its search advertising to Google Inc. after an initial test of the system yielded what the two firms deemed positive results, people familiar with the matter said. — A partnership could give Yahoo some needed leverage …
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Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
Something's Fishy About This Yahoo-Google Deal — Oh, please. An initial test of outsourcing Yahoo's search to Google showed positive results, according to an account in the Journal. Hold it; didn't that test just start this week? Wasn't it supposed to go two weeks?
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Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, David Risley, Electronista and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Puts All The Chips On The Table. Time For Somebody To Fold. — The WSJ, Yahoo's unofficial partner for information leaks over the last couple of months, is reporting that “people familiar with the matter” (i.e. Yahoo) say that Yahoo and Google have completed a preliminary test …
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Portfolio.com
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Google-Yahoo search test an alleged hit; Squeezes Microsoft
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BloggingStocks
Red Hat:
What's Going On With Red Hat Desktop Systems? An Update — Red Hat is well known as a supplier of server systems, so the latest developments with our desktop products and technologies sometimes find themselves in the shade. It's time for an update on the current state of the desktop at Red Hat.
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PopularMechanics.com:
20 (Rare) Questions for Google Search Guru Udi Manber — as Web search, Udi Manber has been working on Web search. Previously a computer science professor at the University of Arizona, then a senior vice president at Amazon and Yahoo's chief scientist, Manber is now vice president in charge …
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CNET News.com, Google Operating System, Matt Cutts, Silicon Alley Insider, Search Engine Land and Digg
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Glenn Derene / Popular Mechanics:
How Social Networking Could Kill Web Search as We Know It — Google owns search for now, but as PM's senior tech editor explains in his biweekly column, the evolving nature of how we use the Internet has left an uncertain future for search—and it's all the fault of you and your friends.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Lonelygirl15 and KateModern Creators Raise $5 million, Form EQAL — In June 2006, former medical student Miles Beckett and disgruntled lawyer Greg Goodfried teamed up with filmmaker Ramesh Flinders to launch Lonelygirl15, a fictional video journal series on YouTube that captured audiences …
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Wall Street Journal, Podcasting News, The Social, Silicon Alley Insider, CinemaTech, paidContent.org, HipMojo.com and NewTeeVee
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
A new reason to hate Comcast — As long as I've been a customer of Comcast I've been writing how much I wish they'd sell their Internet business to a company that doesn't hate its customers so much. But sometimes you forget, when the service is good, you just cruise along, happy and productive.
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Portfolio.com, Zatz Not Funny!, Epeus' epigone, Boing Boing Gadgets, Skype Journal, Download Squad, Sidecut Reports and Digg
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Alexa Overhauls Ranking System — Everyone's favorite web statistics whipping boy Alexa has announced a major overhaul of how it compiles traffic figures. — The biggest change is Alexa's decision to drop exclusive reliance on the Alexa toolbar for traffic data, with Alexa now aggregating data from …
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PDA, Search Engine Journal, Download Squad, Search Engine Roundtable, Webware.com, The Last Podcast, CyberNet, TECH.BLORGE.com, I4U News, David Risley, gHacks technology news, Mr.Gadget Australia, ProBlogger Blog Tips, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, CenterNetworks, Trends in the Living Networks and diego's weblog
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Warning on Storage of Health Records — In an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, two leading researchers warn that the entry of big companies like Microsoft and Google into the field of personal health records could drastically alter the practice of clinical research and raise …
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Ríona MacNamara / Official Google Webmaster …:
Best practices when moving your site — Planning on moving your site to a new domain? Lots of webmasters find this a scary process. How do you do it without hurting your site's performance in Google search results? — Your aim is to make the transition invisible and seamless to the user …
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Google Blogoscoped, Search Engine Land, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and The Blog Herald
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Socialtext enterprise wiki getting social network features — If you love a good theory — of psychology, physics, economics, you name it — go work at SocialText. These guys live in their heads. That became apparent when I talked to founder Ross Mayfield and newish CEO Eugene Lee this week …
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Brightcove: Paid Video Not Worth Our Time — Brightcove is discontinuing an option to have customers pay to rent or buy video, and will tell its publishers about the change on Wednesday. All paid video options will be zapped from Brightcove publishers' offerings on July 31.
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
stackoverflow.com — What is stackoverflow.com? — Nothing, yet. — But here's the concept: — Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. The market for books on programming topics is miniscule compared to the number of working programmers. — Instead, they happily program away, using trial-and-error.
Paul Buchheit:
Facebook knows who you are, and that's worth more than you think — It's very fashionable to declare that Facebook is an over-hyped fad and will never make any real money, certainly not enough to justify it's insane $15 billion dollar valuation. At first glance, it's easy to understand …
