Rich Skrenta thinks he has built a better search engine. This week, he’s launching Blekko, whose web searches will only accept information from curated lists of trusted sites, mediated by users to filter out irrelevant results….
Analysts expect the leading Web portal to report a 15% increase in earnings for the second quarter, largely due to cost cutting. Revenues are expected to be flat year-over-year.
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Google’s search engine continues to leave competitors in the dust. According to a new report from ComScore, Google accounted for 66.1% of all U.S. searches in September, up from 65.4% in August, while Yahoo lost market share.
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Microsoft Corp. and Facebook today expanded their partnership by unveiling a feature that lets users of Microsoft’s Bing search engine to find websites preferred by their Facebook friends.
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Don’t kid yourself. Real privacy no longer exists in this country. From your hobbies to your income to your phone calls, pretty much everything about you is tracked by someone, somewhere. We’ve examined the most intrusive firms…