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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Major Relaunch For Ask: Ask3D — Forget the advertising campaign debacle: There is some real news about Ask.com tonight. — The search engine, which is currently the fourth most used search service, is publicly re-launching tonight around 9 PM PST. You won't see this when visiting the site …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
A Makeover at Ask.com: A New Look and More — Jim Lanzone, the chief executive of Ask.com, the fourth-most-used Internet search engine in the United States, believes that it is time to move beyond the 10 blue links — the standard way to display Web search results.
Search Engine Land:
Ask Relaunches: Now In '3D' — Chris Sherman once compared Ask.com to Apple. Ask CEO Jim Lanzone remarked to me that he liked the comparison because it spoke to quality and innovativeness. Indeed, among the top-tier search engines Ask has arguably been the most innovative. In one sense it has to be.
ResourceShelf:
Ask.com Debuts Ask 3D: Say Hello to Morph Technology — Some major news from Ask.com today. Because Gary is a member of the Ask.com team, like we've done in previous situations our overview post is available by clicking the link below. — Ask.Com Launches Ask 3D: A Users Guide and a Few Thoughts
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Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog:
A New Pricing Model Rolls Out Today — A New Pricing Model Rolls Out Today — Your Click Charges to be Based on Quality of Traffic — Yahoo! Search Marketing is rolling out a new feature that we think will help enhance the quality, potentially reduce the cost and increase the value of traffic to you, our advertisers.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
RIAA throws in the towel in Atlantic v. Andersen — One of the most notorious file-sharing cases is drawing to a close. Both parties in Atlantic v. Andersen have agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice, which means that Tanya Andersen is the prevailing party and can attempt to recover attorneys fees.
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Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Search is history, says Yahoo! — The company says personalisation is now more important than search, in what some have seen as an admission that it can't compete with Google — Yahoo!, one of the two names most synonymous with search on the internet, has surprised Silicon Valley by suggesting …
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China Martens / InfoWorld:
Salesforce.com, Google release first joint product — (InfoWorld) - Salesforce.com Inc. and Google Inc. announced a strategic global partnership Tuesday, but it wasn't the widely expected tight integration between Google Apps and Salesforce.com's hosted CRM (customer relationship management) software.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Kawasaki: How I wasted $12,107 on Truemors — I don't want to be mean, but I just can't help myself. I know Guy Kawasaki is a legend for his marketing work with Apple, and a lot of people find his blog to be very useful — despite what appears to be an addiction to the age-old cliche of the "Top 10 Reasons Why..." style of blog post.
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Scribd Banks $3.5 Million from Redpoint — Scribd, dubbed the "YouTube for Documents," was the dark horse of their Y Combinator class, but the social document site now gives its critics pause to think. — Since launching, traffic to the site scaled quickly to 75-10,000 uniques per …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Ex-Cisco Executive to Lead Joost, Internet TV Provider — Michelangelo Volpi spent 5 of his 13 years at Cisco Systems selling networking equipment to the companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable that bring television into living rooms. — Now he is trying to do an end run around those same companies.
Richard Mitchell / Xbox 360 Fanboy:
Major Xbox announcement coming tomorrow? — Word on the street (that is, Gamertag Radio) is that a major Xbox announcement is dropping tomorrow, set to coincide with the final round of the Pac-Man World Championship. Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg dropped the hint via an instant message session with GTR's Godfree.
Stephen Brook / Guardian Unlimited Blogs:
World Association of Newspapers: Digital Media Round Table — The start of the World Association of Newspapers' digital media round table has been delayed, deliciously, due to "technical difficulties". — 12.30pm update: (scroll down) Google reared what many newspaper executives regard …
Jennifer Netherby / Video Business Online:
Windows test benefits sell-through, VOD — Releasing movies on video-on-demand and DVD the same day boosts sales of both significantly but cuts into disc rentals, according to initial results from a two-market test between Comcast and six studios begun last year.
Business Wire:
SanDisk Launches 64 Gigabyte Solid State Drives for Notebook PCs, Meeting Needs for Higher Capacity — New Products on Display at Computex 2007, Taiwan's International Information Technology Show — MILPITAS, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Reaching for the "sweet spot" of memory storage for laptop computers …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
After deal with AT&T, Clearwire can reach 223 million people with WiMAX — Wireless ISP Clearwire has announced that it has completed the purchase of much of the 2.5GHz spectrum previously owned or controlled by AT&T. Located primarily in the southeastern US, the spectrum was owned …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Lala to open DRM-free digital music store with free streaming access to songs — Lala, a company best known for an excellent CD-swapping service, is betting the company on a new plan: provide access to streaming music, on-demand, for free, and to do so legally. There is no catch.
