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.
Read more »Google Search Appliance Now Indexes Twitter Tweets
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.
Read more »Web 2.0 Summit: Bing Wins Facebook, Twitter Partnerships
Microsoft has struck non-exclusive search deals with Facebook and Twitter to integrate real-time status updates and tweets into Bing's search results. Microsoft online services division president Qi Lu and Yusuf Mehdi, SVP of the Microsoft's online audience business, announced the partnerships at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Wednesday morning.
Read more »Now Live: Bing’s Twitter Search Engine
Bing new Bing Twitter Search has gone live today, made possible through a new deal cut with Twitter. Below, a close-up look at features in the new service. The home page of "Bing Twitter" or what will likely get called "Bing Twitter Search" starts with a tag cloud of popular topics.
Read more »Google goes global with Apps, has 2 million customers
Google Inc said more than 2 million businesses now use its online office software, and the Web search leader is going global on Monday with an advertising campaign to lure customers away from Microsoft Corp and IBM products.
Read more »Google, Microsoft In Search Engine Talks With Twitter?
Twitter may have finally found a way to monetize the billions of "tweets" its users send, thanks to potential agreements under which the social networking site would license Google and Microsoft to integrate those tweets in their search engines.
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