Google's enterprise team Dec. 10 said it now surfaces tweets next to search results in the Google Search Appliance (GSA). Cyrus Mistry, product manager for Google's Enterprise Search team, said even corporate workers want social information in their knowledge work diet. Twitter results will appear to the right of the corporate search results, sitting right above related results, which GSA culls from the core Web search on Google.com.
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Spammer ordered to pay Facebook $711 million
U.S. District Court judge in San Jose has awarded Facebook $711 million in damages in an anti-spam case the social-networking giant filed against online marketer Sanford Wallace, who is known as the "Spam King."
Read more »ICANN approves non-Latin domain names
The organization responsible for managing the assignment of domain names and IP addresses has approved a new plan to allow non-Latin characters in Web extensions. Known as Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), the system is designed to globalize the Net so regions around the world can use their own local alphabet characters to surf in cyberspace, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, said Friday.
Read more »The Internet at 40: History Began With Its First Crash
Why do we today celebrate today--October 29--as the Internet's 40's birthday? Because on this day in 1969, what would later became known as the Internet was used for the very first time--and crashed.
Read more »GeoCities closing for good today
Exactly 10 years after Yahoo acquired GeoCities for a hefty sum of 3.57 billion USD [in YHOO stock], Geocities is shutting down tonight at midnight Pacific Time [8AM GMT in Europe on 27th].
Read more »Microsoft, Google Seal Twitter Search Deals
Microsoft Corp and Google Inc secured separate agreements to access real-time content from Web phenomenon Twitter, intensifying their battle for a search market that Google dominates. Google, and Microsoft's 5-month-old Bing, each announced deals to access Twitter's store of public data in real time on Wednesday, in the latest sign of escalating competition between the two search engines.
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