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 o…
Research firm ComScore projects that spending on online-video advertising will more than triple between 2010 and 2015. But that doesn’t mean you’ll necessarily see more commercials per video. Spending will continue to lag behin…
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 publish…
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 c…
Among Tuesday’s best Web stories for investors: myths about China’s communist party, food stocks that could be poised to double this year, tips for making your own viral video and funny financial predictions for 2011.
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