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News from Microsoft: Microsoft Appoints Dr. Qi Lu to Run Online Services Group Yahoo! veteran to oversee Internet offerings for consumers, advertisers and publishers. REDMOND, Wash. ? Dec. 4, 2008 ? Microsoft Corp. today announced that Dr. Qi Lu will join the company as president of the Online Services...

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There is something so reassuring about seeing an emerging operating system play, based on Linux, that so blatantly declares its navigational interface to be search, specifically Google. gOS, which debuted early this year on a $199 PC sold at Walmart, announced Cloud earlier this week. I managed to miss...

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From American Lawyer: Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. called off their joint advertising agreement just three hours before the Department of Justice planned to file antitrust charges to block the pact, according to the lawyer who would have been lead counsel for the government....

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Whoever has ever had a Board as an entrepreneur should understand this: The US Government is now the board for huge swaths of the US economy. I watched the CEOs of the automakers today plead their case before the Senate, and man, it was like board meetings I've been...

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Because, at the end of the day, Twitter shows the shift to the realtime web (Microsoft calls it "Live Search" and T'Rati called it the live web). And if Google doesn't own it, someone else will. More when, well, the holidays come, and I can write. Meantime, read the...

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My post on the subject, while arguably arguable (yes, I know, I know, but it's better to just say it than let it stick in your craw) is up on the Looksmart Thought Leadership site (part of an FM program I am participating in). From it (this is just...

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Good insight from RWW on Yahoo Search plans: Next year, Yahoo will introduce new technology to augment their Yahoo Search results: abstracts of key information alongside URLs. Instead of just offering a list of links, Yahoo's search results will include machine-extracted information that is relevant to the URL returned....

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Enough said....

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A price target of 450! Wow, that's like way above where it is now. Wait, where are we, in 2004?! Check this note from UBS (can't link, bc banks are so 1991): * Google highlights paid click growth and e-commerce activity A recent post on the official Google Retail...

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Perhaps the best example of a company leveraging new media to turn nasty customer complaints into happy customer evangelists is Comcast. Yes, you read that right, Comcast. This nifty piece of conversational jujitsu has been accomplished in large part by Frank Eliason, better known by his handle @comcastcares on...

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I've decided to start linking to new stuff in search that gets sent to me again, but be forewarned - I won't be able to give it a full grokking. That said, a lot of new stuff has landed in my inbox, and it always bums me out to...

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All Adwords advertisers can now target iPhone and Android and all "full HTML" browers on phones....

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...maybe we can save our publishing butts with Kosmix. In 1998 Google founder Sergey Brin offered fellow Stanford University PhD students Anand Rajarman and Venky Harinarayan the chance to buy Google for $1m (£675,000). They said no. A year later, with Amazon's backing, Mr Rajarmand and Mr Harinarayan offered...

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The meme is growing Internet search, which has so far served as a dependable source of growth for online advertising, could possibly see its first-ever sequential decline in the first quarter of next year, according to a Wall Street analyst. That in turn will be a likely drag on...

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