Is Microsoft going to buy a chunk of Facebook? Why might your Facebook activities show up in Bloglines? Will Wikipedia drop its open editing model? And more, in today's episode.
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Buy 5% Stake In Facebook
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Dilemma: Facebook Or Yahoo (Or AOL)?
The NY Post is reporting that Microsoft is weighing two big investment options: buying a 5 percent stake in Facebook (at rougly $500 million), which was widely reported yesterday, or buying some or all of Yahoo. But the options are probably mutually exclusive given the earlier $6 billion acquisition of... - New York
Times' Marshall Simmonds: Poster Child Of SEO Success
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Community Editing Model About To Die?
Gary Price picked up on a major change coming to the German Wikipedia, where only "trusted editors" will be able to make instant changes to the online community driven encyclopedia. This change is coming to the German Wikipedia later this year, and it may follow suit on the English version... - Privacy
Tuesday: New Google Privacy Video & Privacy Articles
Following on last month's search privacy video from Google, the Google Blog announced that a new installment dealing with personalized results is now available. Meanwhile, two new articles about privacy issues and naming Google in particular have also come out today.... - Google News
May Index Yahoo Ads
BlogStorm has found that Google News might actually index Yahoo contextual ads.... - Marc Armand Rousso's Friends, New York Times
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System For Search Engine Land
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Notification Feeds: Not So Private From Blog Search, After All
Lisa Barone posted today about being surprised to discover that some of her Facebook activities were showing up in Bloglines. How? She's friends with John Harmon, and his Facebook notifications feed was apparently submitted over there. The odd thing is, Facebook says these feeds shouldn't show up in Bloglines at... - Google Trends
Now Updated Hourly
The Google Blog announced today that Google Trends is now updated every hour. In the past, it was just updated monthly with the latest statistics on searches. If you want to track the latest hot trends by hour, you can subscribe to the hourly Hot Trends Atom Feed or add... - Why I'm
Excited About SMX Local & Mobile
Next week we kick off our inaugural SMX Local & Mobile conference in Denver, and it promises to be a killer show. I've programmed dozens of search conferences over the years, and yet this one, which I co-organized with the able and expert help of Greg Sterling, is special. To... - Real Time Search Soon At Twitter, TechCrunch
