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Microsoft Denies Copying Google: Can It Compete in Obscure Searches?

by Dawn Kawamoto on Feb.02, 2011, under Towing

Microsoft denies that it copies Google's search results, as Google alleges.

Microsoft has definitively denied that its Bing search engine takes its cues from its rival. Nonetheless, the Google allegations highlights the challenges Microsoft faces in addressing the “long tail” market in search, or the obscure searches that collectively account for a huge portion of search traffic.

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Microsoft Denies Copying Google: Can It Compete in Obscure Searches? originally appeared on DailyFinance on Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:30:00.

Filed Under: Technology, Google , Microsoft, Yahoo

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Is Google Ready to Send ‘Content Farms’ Out to Pasture?

by Alex Salkever on Jan.24, 2011, under Towing

In a blog post on Friday, Google made its most direct warning that it would be tweaking search algorithms to punish “content farms” — cheap producers of Web content that either copied or scraped information from other publishers. Demand Media could suffer in particular.

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Is Google Ready to Send ‘Content Farms’ Out to Pasture? originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:40:00.

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Week in Preview: Fed Policy Meeting, GDP, Housing Data and Earning Galore

by Trey Thoelcke on Jan.23, 2011, under Towing

With corporate earnings season in full swing — watch for McDonalds, along with Catepillar, Amazon and other — and with the Fed meeting on interest rates, the GDP estimate and housing numbers coming out — the week ahead is expected to be quite busy.

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Week in Preview: Fed Policy Meeting, GDP, Housing Data and Earning Galore originally appeared on DailyFinance on Sun, 23 Jan 2011 15:10:00.

Filed Under: Economy, Earnings, Microsoft, American Express, McDonald’s, Chevron, Caterpillar

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Can Twitter Help FEMA Respond to Disasters?

by Danny King on Jan.19, 2011, under Towing

Social-media tools like Twitter and Facebook could soon help the U.S. government respond more effectively to disasters. The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it will take advantage of social media and mobile-device portals to reach people during federal disasters.

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Can Twitter Help FEMA Respond to Disasters? originally appeared on DailyFinance on Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:30:00.

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Disney and Yahoo Eye an Internet TV Deal

by Dawn Kawamoto on Jan.10, 2011, under Towing

Disney is considering lending some of the keys to its television kingdom to Yahoo for its Yahoo Connected TV. If Yahoo is successful in inking such a deal, it would bolster its Internet TV efforts and put on better footing to compete against rival products such as Google TV and Apple TV.

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Disney and Yahoo Eye an Internet TV Deal originally appeared on DailyFinance on Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:08:00.

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