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Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc. [continue reading]

Wall Street Journal reports that the preliminary testing of the Yahoo-switching-to-AdSense deal has gone well. The question is whether this deal is a real possibility (in a normal situation, without Microsoft bidding for Yahoo, it wouldn’t be… [continue reading]

[Revision 1.1; see change log at the end of the post.] We have seen extensive press coverage of Microsoft's pursuit of Yahoo over the last few months, including notably excellent coverage from Silicon Alley Insider and the Wall Street Journal.... [continue reading]

Popular Mechanics asks 20 questions of Udi Manber, who is a VP of Engineering at Google on core search quality. My favorite: There have been a lot of fads in search of late, such as Human Assisted Search and contextual search. Do those get f… [continue reading]

Post about the rise of strategic content development for marketing. [continue reading]

Microsoft has yet to reach a final decision about a Yahoo deal. An announcement is expected later in the week. One key question looms: How badly does Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer want to own the Internet company? (Complete coverage) [continue reading]

We're happy to let you know that AdSense for search is now powered by Custom Search. If you've used Custom Search Engine (CSE) before, you know that Custom Search offers advanced customization options to help improve the accuracy of your sear… [continue reading]

We'd like to introduce Google TV Ads, a flexible, all-digital system for easily and efficiently buying more accountable and measurable TV advertising. The program, which has been an invitation-only beta test since June 2007, is now available … [continue reading]

Have you ever wanted to share something that you were reading, but you didn't want to go through the hassle of subscribing to a whole feed for a single interesting article? And what about sharing content from sites with no feeds? There you ar… [continue reading]

As the Web swells with more and more data, the predominant way of sifting through all of that data—keyword search—will one day break down in its ability to deliver the exact information we want at our fingertips. In fact, some argue that ke… [continue reading]