Google gets a new local news search feature. Ask gets a radical new news search system. Are search engines trying to be the new SEOs? And more!
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- Microsoft Bid for Yahoo Drops To $29.50 a Share, Silicon Alley Insider
- Time Warner Plans to Split AOL Businesses, New York Times
- AOL revenue continues to slide; Who are these 9.3 million AOL access subscribers?, Between The Lines
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- Microsoft
Acquires 3-D Modeling Software Company Caligari
Adding to its already impressive portfolio of mapping tools and capabilities, Microsoft has acquired 3-D modeling software company Caligari. The group will be a part of the Virtual Earth team apparently but the software is equally used for gaming and game development. Microsoft already had powerful 3-D modeling capabilities and... - Google News'
New Local Angle
Just as Ask is introducing "BigNews," Google is offering local news. The Google New Blog says that the new capabilities allow users to "create a local section for any city, state or country in the world." As the Google News Blog admits, Google isn't the first to do this. Topix.com... - Ask Launches
BigNews
Ask has just launched a new search service called BigNews, similar to Google News with a side of Digg. It uses something called "BigFactor" to rank stories (using signals like freshness, impact, quantity of multimedia, and amount of related discussion), provides category clusters, and lets you browse by top Diggs... - Beware! the Search Engines want your SEO job, HuoMah.com
- Should You Let Sam's Club Be Your SEO Company?, WebProNews
- Searching For
Southern Tornado Maps
Now that you can search for user-generated content more easily on Google Maps, I checked to see if people had been creating and sharing information about the tornadoes that tragically tore through several Southern states in the US. Surprisingly, there wasn't much there in contrast to the mapping that went...
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