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Portals and Search Engines
http://news.yahoo.com/i/2098 InfoWorld - What happened this week? The big names posted their quarterly results, the recording industry suffered more setbacks, and the Microsoft-Yahoo-Icahn kerfuffle once again appears to be over (this time it might actually be true). Rogue IT admins and spammers also got their comeuppance, though some managed to escape.
Read more...  AP - Microsoft's CEO defended the software maker's decision to invest heavily in its unprofitable online business, but shed minimal light Thursday on specific steps it will take to challenge Google in the wake of the failed bid to buy Yahoo.
Read more...NewsFactor - On Wednesday Google took the lid off a new product called Knol. The search-engine giant first announced it was testing the product in December. Knols are authoritative articles about specific topics, written by people who know about those subjects.
Read more... PC World - Microsoft and Facebook will announce an Internet search and ad deal, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
Read more...  Reuters - Microsoft Corp will announce
plans to expand its relationship with online social network
Facebook to provide web search and search advertising, a source
familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
Read more...BusinessWeek Online - Plenty of Web entrepreneurs start their ventures at home and move into commercial spaces only when they expand. Unity Stoakes and Steven H. Krein did it backwards. They ditched their office space in midtown Manhattan a year after founding OrganizedWisdom, a health search engine vetted by physicians, and sent their staff of nine to work from home. And after more than a year of running OrganizedWisdom remotely, Stoakes and Krein wouldn't do it any other way.
Read more... PC World - Baidu, China's most popular search engine, saw year-on-year profit for the second quarter of 2008 grow by almost 87 percent.
Read more... NewsFactor - Google is reportedly ready to purchase the Digg Web site for $200 million. The search giant could beef up its news service with Digg, where readers select and vote on stories from around the Web.
Read more...  AP - Yahoo Inc.'s profit slipped again in the second quarter, a recurring theme that has frustrated shareholders and raised doubts about the Internet company's future.
Read more...Reuters - Yahoo Inc on Tuesday
posted a nearly 19 percent fall in net profit, and net revenue
short of lowered Wall Street expectations, as it faced a
weakening economy and the distraction of Microsoft Corp's
pursuit.
Read more...PC Magazine - The search monolith is snatching up Web addresses that are misspellings or variations (some risqué) of its name, as well as stockpiling seemingly random ones. Here's a sampling.
Read more... AP - American Airlines has dropped its lawsuit against Google Inc. over its search engine directing some users to advertisements for the airline's competitors.
Read more... TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - As product manager at Google Enterprise, Rishi Chandra is responsible for spreading search appliances, Google Apps and a growing portfolio of services into the business world. Continuing a series of interviews on cloud computing, Intelligent Enterprise asks Chandra about Google's plans for applications, underlying infrastructure and meeting the demands of the enterprise.
Read more... TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Open source databases are being adopted for use with interactive Web apps, small portals, RFID applications, and other new workloads in the enterprise.
Read more...  AP - Google Inc. shares plunged nearly 10 percent Friday after the Internet search leader's second-quarter earnings missed analysts' expectations.
Read more... Reuters - In a rare slip for Google Inc,
Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp gained share as Google lost ground
in the Web search market in June, industry data released on
Friday shows.
Read more... AP - Wall Street closed out an impressive week with a mixed performance Friday after disappointing high-tech earnings punctured some of investors' enthusiasm over better-than-expected bank earnings reports. But the major indexes still ended the week with big gains, the result of rising optimism about the troubled financial sector.
Read more... Reuters - Google Inc , IBM
and Microsoft Corp reported quarterly results on
Thursday, giving investors a mixed snapshot of the health of
the technology sector amid a slowing global economy.
Read more...Reuters - Rambler Media, the British-registered
owner of Russia's Rambler Internet portal, said on Friday it
has agreed to sell the Begun advertising agency to Google Inc
for $140 million.
Read more...  AP - With a Yahoo Inc. search deal uncertain at best, Microsoft Corp. plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars more than expected in the next year to whip its unprofitable online operations into shape.
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