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• Official: Yahoo Says No To Microsoft
  The weekend rumor becomes reality. Yahoo has rejected Microsoft's offer, saying it undervalues Yahoo. From the release:...
• Microhoo At One Week 1: Decision Nears? Yahoo Brand To Survive?
  Has it only been a week since Microsoft thought it was a nice day for a Yahoo wedding? Indeed, so. And what's happened since? Rumors that Yahoo is nearing a decision, while Microsoft's Steve Ballmer seems to want to encourage his potential new employees that a Yahoo brand will...
• Not So Crazy: Yahoo May Partner With AOL To Escape Microsoft
  Wondering what's next after the news that Yahoo apparently plans to reject Microsoft's takeover offer? The Times Of London reports Yahoo will restart merger talks with AOL. Below, more about the news along with some back history on AOL in search and why a Yahoo-AOL partnership might indeed be...
• Rumor: Google To Acquire Plaxo
  Wired says that Google is rumored to be buying Plaxo for roughly $200 million. The company was founded in 2001 as a tool to manage contacts and users' email address books ("your address book for life"). Its aggressive customer acquisition strategy (read: spam) alienated many would-be users. Plaxo has been...
• Yahoo Live Launches - Online Video, Um, Live
  Techmeme is all abuzz with news of the Yahoo Live launch. I'm thinking Yahoo's doing online video? Again? But weren't they closing Yahoo Video? No, that was Yahoo Podcasts -- it's hard to keep track of the closures. But still, what's special about Live? Then I hit the official Yahoo...
• Live Search: There For Skiiers And Snowboarders Everywhere
  Live Search has just added Instant Answers for snow conditions at ski resorts. Type a query for a resort name (such as "whistler") or for a resort area (such as "CO snow report") and you'll see information such as lift status, amount of new snow, base depth, and conditions....
• Google: We Didn't Censor Aboutrika's Gaza T-Shirt Photo
  Google's Matt Cutts has lent his personal blog to the Google Images search team so they could debunk a rumor that Google censored an image of a Egyptian football player Mohammad Aboutrika stripping off his team jersey during the African Cup Of Nations to show a "Sympathize With Gaza" T-shirt...
• Google Wins Upside Down Social Security Number Privacy Lawsuit
  Eric Goldman reports Google has won the Jayne v. Google Founders lawsuit (PDF). The suit was filed by Dylan Stephen Jayne against Google for $5 billion. Jayne claimed when you turn his social security number upside down, it spelled Google. In any event, a United States court of appeals for...
• Socializing Before & During SMX West 2008
  We expect more than 1,500 people to attend Search Engine Land's three-day Search Marketing Expo West conference later this month in Silicon Valley. A monster show! There will be sessions stuffed with search marketing knowledge and a bustling expo floor. But it needn't scare those looking to network. We've carefully...
• Microsoft Live Search Core Relevance Program Management Director Eytan Seidman Moves On
  Eytan Seidman, Program Management Director over core relevance for Microsoft Live Search, is leaving Microsoft (and Seattle) after six and a half years and heading to New York to work on a start up with his brother. I talked to him about life at Microsoft, the birth of Live Search,...
• SEO Makes Oprah In Roundabout Way
  SEO is making it big time, hitting Oprah! Actually, it's an SEO who will be on Oprah and not talking about his business but his personal life. Rand Fishkin is slated to share how he popped the question for his fiancee Geraldine, last year. Kim Krause posted the news of...
• The Googliest Place On Earth: Google Takes Over Disneyland
  Google Operating System has a collection of Googler posts on their recent trip to Disneyland. This year, instead of going skiing as they have traditionally done for their annual company trips, Google went to Disneyland. Googlers took over Disneyland between February 4 and 6th. In fact, Valleywag reported that Googlers...