Google pushes U.S. states to open public records
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| By providing free consulting and some software, Google is
| helping state governments make reams of public records that
| are now unavailable or hard to find online easily accessible
| to Web surfers.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/04/29/google.records.ap/
Wikipedia co-founder wants open-source search engine
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| "Jeremie is a brilliant thinker and a natural fit to help
| revolutionize the world of search," Wales said in a statement.
| "I believe Internet search is currently broken and the way to
| fix it is to build a community whose mission is to develop a search
| platform that is open and totally transparent."
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6180379.html
Another loss for Microsoft, I guess:
Comcast and Yahoo ink Internet advertising deal
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| Yahoo's advertising services will be integrated in the
| redesigned Comcast.net planned later this year, the companies said.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6180385.html
Related:
Video: Search is broken [he calls it 'proprietary']
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| Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Wikipedia's CEO, Gil Penchina,
| explained to CNET News.com how they are going to try to improve
| online search.
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http://news.com.com/1606-2-6150975.html?tag=st.rb
Yet another Microsoft search exec calls it quits
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| In March, Blake Irving, the Corporate VP in charge of the Windows
| Live platform, announced his plans to leave Microsoft, effective
| this summer. Payne announced his resignation from Microsoft shortly
| after Irving made his announcement.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=407
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| Lucovsky said Ballmer threw a chair across the room and shouted:
| "Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I'm going to fucking bury
| that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I'm going to
| fucking kill Google."
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballmer
Ouch: Goodbye Microsoft; Hello, Google
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| Google continues to poach from Microsoft -- that's not really news.
| But it's relatively rare to see Microsoft employees using their
| Microsoft-sponsored TechNet blog space to diss Microsoft on the way
| out the door.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=380
Microsoft Windows Live VP to resign
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| Blake Irving, a Corporate Vice President in Microsoft's Windows
| Live Platform group, is resigning his post, according to sources
| close to the company.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=296
Microsoft Search Leader To Leave Company
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| The Microsoft Corp. vice president who led the company's push into
| Internet search is leaving the software giant as the effort he
| helped launch loses ground against lead competitor Google Inc.
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http://online.wsj.com/preview_login.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB117329976478329930.html%3Fmod%3Dyahoo_hs%26ru%3Dyahoo
http://tinyurl.com/2jran7
Microsoft's Futile Attempt at Search Engines
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| An article in Seattle-Post Intelligencer displays a graph showing the
| growth and number of queries of Google and Microsoft, as well as Yahoo.
| The most apparent conclusion that can be drawn from this picture is
| that Microsoft can not start a battle with Google until it defeats
| Yahoo first. Bill Gates? company trails Yahoo by nearly a billion
| queries. Yahoo has also shown growth over the past couple of years,
| while MSN/Live search has stagnated and floundered under 700 million
| queries.
|
| Microsoft's inability to gain a significant market share, despite a
| growth in the market of over 3 billion queries in the past two years,
| just typifies how the company has shown little inability to shoo
| away the gnat that has become a real nuisance in Google.
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http://blog.fastcompany.com/archives/2007/03/07/microsofts_futile_attempt_at_search_engines.html?partner=rss
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