Microsoft’s new search engine, aka “decision engine” or “results engine” as they now like to call it, is turning out to be an interesting beast.
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Bing equals ka-ching?
Premium content model rush
Where Rupert leads, others often follow. Mr Murdoch’s plans to have Internet users pay for premium online newspaper content among his brands have set others considering the same.
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Microsoft’s machine that goes “bing”!
Apologies to Monty Python fans. Microsoft is revving up the spin machine for it’s new search engine, called Bing.
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Google - the $100 billion brand
Google is the world’s first $100 billion brand and number one brand for the third year running.
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Farewell Geocities
The free web hosting service Geocities has been around for what seems forever and it practically has in terms of Internet history - but it won’t be for much longer.
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Yahoo’s revenue woes
Yahoo’s profit has dropped 78% compared to the same period a year earlier; and the axe is about to be swung among its ranks again.
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A reputation nightmare
The old saying goes the pen is mightier than the sword, but in the online world, a video camera is probably the more modern equivalent. The recent Dominos incident is another good example of why we need to closely monitor our online reputations.
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Spam’s carbon footprint
While the meat product would likely have a sizeable carbon footprint, email spam doesn’t get off lightly either.
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97% of email is spam: Microsoft
According to Microsoft, over 97 percent of e-mail messages sent over the Internet are unwanted.
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AP gets tough on content reproduction
As old media continues to suffer an often undignified demise, one of the world’s oldest and largest newsgathering organizations is about to come out swinging against content theft.
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