» Is Yahoo Underground an April Fool's Joke?
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch takes a look at Yahoo Underground, presented by Yahoo News. The site was launched on April 1, and Arrington speculat
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» SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 6, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web:

From Search Eng
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» More Rumors: Yahoo After Bebo? Google Launching Phone Service?
The Daily Telegraph reports Yahoo is after Bebo, a social networking site, while TechCrunch reports hearing a rumor that Google may launch its own ph
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» Google Bringing Anti-Virus Tools to Google Desktop?
The purchase may indicate a renewed focus by Google on desktop applications. GreenBorder provides an anti-virus platform that combined with Google De
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» Google Maps Now with 360 Streetside Views
Google has will be announcing a new 360 streetside view for Google maps at Where 2.0 today, says O’Reily Radar. The 360 views are a better version of
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» Facebook Launches Facebook Polls
Facebook just launched a new product tonight called Facebook Polls.

Facebook charges you a variable amount based on how quickly you want results.
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» Yahoo Opens Access To Panama With API Program
Yahoo today announced the Yahoo Search Marketing Commercial API Program that will provide businesses and developers free and open access to the Panam
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» Half Dressed Women With Swords Promoting Ask.com
Another provocative ad from Ask.com - it includes half-dressed women dancing with swords on some kind of stage.
A tipster sent those photos to Tech
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» Google To Buy Telephone Management Startup GrandCentral
Google is in acquisition discussions with telephone management startup GrandCentral, Techcrunch reported.

"we have a high degree of confidence that the deal has actually been closed. We are trying to nail down the acquisition price."
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» Domain Market Is Hot Again
Last week some $10 million changed hands at auction for domain sales, with 16 domains being sold for 6 figures. Free Credit Check.com & Credit Check.com sold together for $3 million, although as the DomainTools Blog points out this was at a relative
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» Yahoo Announced Smart Ads
Yahoo has announced the launch of Yahoo SmartAds, a new advertising platform that delivers tailored display ads to highly targeted audiences.

The new service automatically converts creative campaign elements and offerings into highly customized a
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» eBay Launch Firefox eBay Edition And Addon
Mozilla and eBay have launched Firefox eBay Edition, an eBay focused version of the popular Firefox browser, along with an official eBay addon for existing Firefox users.
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» AOL Launches Three New myAOL Products Into Beta
This morning AOL is launched a suite of personalized products into beta: myPage (personalized home page), Mgnet (image-driven content discovery and recommendation engine) and Favorites (feed reader and bookmarking). All three services can be accesse
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» SideStep Acquires Travel Social Network TripUp
Travel search company SideStep has acquired social networking site TripUp for an undisclosed sum.

TripUp is a social network focused on travel and includes user-generated travel blogs, photos, videos, maps, and travel reviews.
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» Answers.com Now Owns Dictionary.com
Question and answer reference site Answers.com has purchased Dictionary.com’s parent company, Lexico Publishing, for $100 million in cash.
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» Maybe Google News Needs A Little Tweaking
An article by Axcess News reported that President Bush was undergoing a colonoscopy, leaving Vice President Cheney in charge of the United States for the duration of the procedure.

The article had the unfortunate title “Bush butt probed, Cheney i
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» Google Acquires ImageAmerica
Google has announced the acquisition of Clayton, Missouri based ImageAmerica, a company that builds high-resolution cameras for the collection of aerial imagery.

ImageAmerica has previously provided images for Google Maps and Earth, including hig
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» Google Licenses Gmail In Japan
Google has licensed Gmail to Japanese mobile operator KDDI Corp.

The email service will be branded by KDDI and work on the “auone.jp” domain. Google will provide the backend for the service and account holders will have the same functionality as
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» Is Blogging Ready For a Unionized Workforce?
A coalition of left-wing bloggers is trying to form a labor union that they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining and set professional standards.
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» Playboy Launches Social Network
The recent launch of Silicon Valley funded adult/porn site Zivity raised a few eyebrows. Now one of the old sovereigns of sexy is getting into the game, too. CrunchGear reports that Playboy is launching their own sexy social networking site just for
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» MyLiveSearch Not As Completely Useless As I Expected
MyLiveSearch is set to launch this Wednesday, and we’ve had a chance to test it over the weekend. While I don’t think the company has much of a chance of displacing Google as the king of search, they are innovating in the area of real time searches.
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» New Super Cuill Search Engine
Rumors about the new search engine Cuill(pronounced cool) are gaining strength in Silicon Valley.

Cuill claims that it can index web pages significantly faster and cheaper than Google can. Cuill has told potential investors that their indexing co
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» Microsoft Launches Silverlight
Microsoft has launched its Flash rival application Silverlight
with support under both Windows and OS X, and in a partnership with Novell will also be available for Linux.

Microsoft has rolled out a number of Silverlight powered applications sin
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» Embed Book Clips Into Websites With Google Books
Google Books released a useful new tool this morning - the ability to embed parts of public domain books directly into other websites and/or Google Notebook.

You can choose between a text of an image to embed.
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» Amazon & Google To Enter eBook Business
Amazon and Google are entering the eBook business this year according to the New York Times.

The new Amazon product and service will be called The Kindle. Google will begin charging users to read the full text of some of the books they have index
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