If you’re interested in tracking swine flu cases, there is now a Google maps app to help.

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Yahoo’s found someone new to manage a collection of its most important offerings.  Bryan Lamkin, who previously worked at Adobe and two venture capital firms, will join the Sunnyvale-based corporation with the title “senior vice president of Applications Products.”   Bryan Lamkin “Applications Products” sound unfamiliar?  Try Yahoo Mail, Flickr, and Yahoo Answers, instead, as they’re all part of …

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Microsoft and Yahoo are still at odds, but a deal could happen between them…

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A group of authors and the heirs of others, including representatives of the estate of John Steinbeck, and of the musician Arlo Guthrie, are asking a federal judge to delay by four months the deadline for authors to decide whether or not to participate in the class action settlement of landmark lawsuit against Google.

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Yahoo has announced that their free webhosting service, GeoCities, will be closing later this year. The discontinuation of services also includes GeoCities Plus. The service has help many individuals to organizations get on the web easily for free in the early days of public internet. Some sites still use it today and have constant fresh content and many viewers. But later this year those sites will have to find some place new.

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If you don’t like the results that come up when you search for your name on Google, you now have a new free way to make sure people find the online information you want them to by creating a free Google Profile and filling it with accurate information.

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Google profiles are the search giant’s fiendishly clever attempt to turn your egosurfing pain into their gain

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Google announced that users will now have greater control over what people find when they search for their name.

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We’re big fans of Google’s My Location feature for mobile phones, which pulls up search results in your area without you typing any extra location indicators. But would we download an IE add-on to get it on the desktop?

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The version of the story “New Google search tools announced” that was posted to the wire Friday should be removed from Web sites. The story was mislabeled and inadvertently duplicate posted. This story was posted on Tuesday and attributed to the correct publication. The story came from Computerworld (US), not CIO (UK).

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