On Wednesday, a U.S. district court ruled that AOL, Yahoo, and RealNetworks must pay a percentage of their revenues derived from music-oriented services to the American Society of Composers, Artists, and Publishers (ASCAP).? However, the three companies were unable to agree on the rates owed the songwriters, and so a court stepped in and now [...]
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Man, I love Maker Faire. It’s almost as if Burning Man mated with Slashdot. Here are afew of the fun things I saw today.In the Craft area someone showed the credit cards that they accepted, but the credit card sign was hand-made:Also in the Craft zone was a “postcard machine.” It was a person sitting [...]
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In this week's Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
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Do you want to know the real secret of success?Okay, I??™ll tell you. But first I want you to meet my grandparents. They lived in the heart of West Virginia. As a child, I spent many long summer days at their home, running in the wide green yard and splashing through the creek looking for [...]
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Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
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Roll up, roll up, come get your Google juice here.The no follow tag has now been removed from the comments in this blog. This means when you make a comment, you get a little bit of Google juice right at you.I have thermo nuclear spam protection if anyone tries to monkey around, and no putting [...]
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The Live Search QnA Blog announced a new release of Live Search QnA. Live Search QnA is Microsoft's question and answer engine, similar to Yahoo Answers. This new release was coined the "Renaissance release," and includes the following enhancements:
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