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Google Car Alarm Kind Of

Dec 21, 2010
Google is displaying security warnings in its search results. If your results include pages that have been hacked you'll see a message saying "this...

Mechanical Turk is 40.92% spam generators

Dec 20, 2010
This according to researchers at NYU. They investigated all new HIT requesters on Amazon's Mechanical Turk site for September and October ...

Facebook as retailer

Dec 20, 2010
Business Week says Facebook is about to make a major push into retail, partnering up with small companies and big companies to sell stuff on the...

Google asks partners to delay Google TV products

Dec 20, 2010
Yikes. Google TV was supposed to be making an enormous splash at next month's Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas but now Google is asking TV...

YouTube to get into the content creation biz?

Dec 16, 2010
Interesting article in the New York Times cites anonymous sources that YouTube may be acquiring a company called Next New Networks (catchy and...

Tons of new things on Bing

Dec 15, 2010
I'm going to punt over to Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Land to give you the full rundown of new Bing features. There's a lot of them. More...

Google TV update

Dec 15, 2010
That's the thing when you're web-based, you can keep offering updates. New Google TV update lets you add new Netflix DVDs to your queue and use...

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Comcast takeover of NBCU still being hammered out

Dec 15, 2010
It seems like forever ago that we first heard about Comcast's intentions to buy NBC Universal. Now comes word that the deal could be approved by...

Music blogs hit by piracy crackdown

Dec 14, 2010
A while back we talked about a massive crackdown by the Justice department on websites suspected of trafficking in pirated movies and music. The...

Microsoft joins complaint against Google

Dec 14, 2010
Google has been trying for several months now to acquire a software company called ITA, which makes a product that searches airline information for...