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Microsoft sued over Bing trademark A small design company in America has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that it is unfairly using the Bing name for its search engine. Bing! Information Design, based in St Louis, Missouri, launched a legal action last week in a local court - alleging that the multibillion-dollar software ... Source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/dec/21/microsoft-bing-trademark
Ad Interest Manager: Making things even more transparent for Yahoo! visitors At Yahoo! we are committed to earning and maintaining our users' trust each and every day. That is why we are thrilled today to be announcing a new consumer tool called Ad Interest Manager, which takes transparency in online advertising to a new level for building user trust. Ad Interest Manager ... Source : http://ycorpblog.com/2009/12/07/adinterest/
Newspapers Face the Prisoner's Dilemma With Google Nicholas Carr has an interesting analysis of Rupert Murdoch's threat to de-list News Corp's stories from Google and Microsoft's eager offer to make Bing Murdoch's exclusive search engine for its content. Carr writes that newspapers are caught in a classic Prisoner's Dilemma ... Source : http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/27/130203/Newspapers-Face-the-Prisoners-Dilemma-With-Google?fro...
Google refuses to remove 'offensive and racist' Michelle Obama image Google has refused to remove an image that depicts Michelle Obama with monkey features, but has purchased online ads apologising and explaining how its search results work. The image, which appears as the top search result when "Michelle Obama" is entered into Google Images, has led to pro... Source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/25/google-obama-offensive-racist
BBC bows to Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) with keyword friendly URL's Search engine optimisation has become a standard practice for most online organisations over the past couple of years, guardian.co.uk included. As users began to find stories more and more via search engines or Google News, via personal recommendations on social media or in email, via links on Twitt... Source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/nov/20/bbc-digital-media-seo-headlines-search-engine-optimi...
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