Archive for August, 2008

Google to Start Yahoo Deal by October, Schmidt Says (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc. , facing U.S. government scrutiny of its advertising partnership with Yahoo! Inc., will proceed with the agreement by early October, Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said.

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Be careful with your Google Docs (International Herald Tribune)

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Sharing documents with your co-workers via Google Docs sure is convenient. It can also be hazardous if you type the wrong e-mail address.

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I?m in Your Google Docs, Reading Your Spreadsheets (New York Times)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Sharing documents with your coworkers via Google Docs sure is convenient. It can also be hazardous. Make one little typo and your sensitive data could fall into the hands of? someone like me.

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Microsoft Vs. Google, Again (Forbes)

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Chief executive Steve Ballmer’s latest attempt at toppling Google is subtle and crafty.

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Google helps expand undersea cable infrastructure (CNET via Yahoo! News)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Google is joining forces with foreign phone companies to help lay new undersea fiber optic cables to bring faster Internet speeds to the far corners of the world.

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Can Yahoo! Fix the Buzz Problem? (Time Magazine)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Yahoo!’s new social-news site promises to prevent the obvious cheating that happens on sites like Digg and Reddit

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Yahoo Link: Operator Issues and Possible Remedies (Search Engine Journal)

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Yahoo link: operator (and URL analysis in Yahoo! SiteExplorer) is the best method currently at our disposal to conduct backlink analysis and to evaluate either your own or your competitors? link building tactics. Yet the tool is not perfect. Some essential tool drawbacks (many of them covered already at SEOmoz) we come across include: Yahoo! link: [...]

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Web Audience for Games Soars for NBC and Yahoo (New York Times)

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

The extent to which the Internet served as a supplement to television was unprecedented, and there were two clear winners: NBC?s Web site and Yahoo?s Olympics section.

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Google and Apple are clear winners in customer satisfaction (The Kansas City Star)

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

American consumers seem to be a disgruntled lot as they bang away on their computer keyboards. Unless they are doing a Google search while using an Apple MacBook or iMac.

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Intel, Yahoo to mesh TV and Internet (Canada.com)

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO – After years of false starts aimed at bringing the Web to TV sets, Yahoo Inc has announced it is working with Intel Corp to create Web computer channels that run alongside TV shows.

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