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  1. Weekly Rundown: Lost Google Image Search Traffic, Facebook Search Ads & More

    Microsoft Reports Third-Quarter Results – Microsoft News Center"The Online Services Division reported revenue of $832 million, an 18% increase from the prior year period. Google search manipulation starves some websites of traffic – PCWorldHarvard...

  2. Note to FTC: Google Satisfies Information Needs Way More Than Shopping Needs

    This study, Classifying Web Queries by Topic and User Intent discovered that the general search query breakdown for search engines was: percent informational queries.percent navigational queries.percent product queries.percent services queries.

  3. Google Buys Frommer’s Travel Guides in Yet Another Contested Move as a Content Publisher

    As Google has increased its content and services, it has unfairly favoured them in its search results and damaged competitors. FairSearch.org, a group of companies including Microsoft, Expedia, and TripAdvisor, among others, released a blog post...

  4. The Trouble with Tribbles: Beyond Google’s Cookiegate Browser Settings Hype

    Microsoft discovered Google and Facebook have also been circumventing their browser settings, though due to the ineffectiveness of a system called P3P. No one knew Google would one day amalgamate data across all their services by merging them all...

  5. Pot (Microsoft) Calls Kettle (Google) Black on Privacy

    But it honestly doesn’t hold up upon closer inspection, especially considering Microsoft has its own privacy policy and, oddly, one Windows Live ID for multiple Microsoft services as Hotmail, Messenger, and Xbox Live.

  6. New Gmail, YouTube, Blogger Users Join Google+ by Default

    Google is an active player in the online identity verification arena, as one of the five sustaining OpenID Foundation members (alongside Microsoft, PayPal, Symantec and Ping Identity). When someone registers a new Gmail account now to access...

  7. Tools to Monitor Online Reputation Across Different Languages

    There are also a number of services that allow you to monitor and manage different aspects of your online reputation. Services such as Boardtracker and Boardreader specialize in trawling the boards for searchable keywords so you don't have to.

  8. SOPA Explained: Why It’s Bad for the Web & How to #StopSOPA

    Several early SOPA supporters backed out, either under pressure from consumers or in light of their learning more of what it entailed, including game developer EA, GoDaddy, and Microsoft. Microsoft For their part, Microsoft has been working with...