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• Microsoft Launches Live Search News
  Microsoft hits back at Google with Live Search News from News.com reports Microsoft has launched Live Search News. Live Search News takes a more linear view of news, when you compare it to the Google News or Yahoo News home pages. Live Search News looks more like a Techmeme style...
• comScore: New Google High, New Yahoo & Microsoft Lows, Though Both Rise In Raw Searches
  Continuing from previous search stats from Hitwise and Compete, comScore is now out with search engine share in the United States for March 2008. Similar to Hitwise, Google hits a new high while Microsoft and Yahoo hit new lows. But in terms of raw searches, Yahoo and Microsoft showed...
• Compete: Microsoft Gains Share; Google Hits New High In Raw Searches
  Having covered Hitwise stats yesterday, today I move on to the latest stats from Compete on search engine share in the United States for March 2008. Unlike Hitwise, they show Google taking a very slight dip last month, with Microsoft getting a slight rise. But while Google's percentage share...
• Cuill Gets $25 Million In VC Funding
  Cuill, the stealth search startup backed by former Google, AltaVista and IBM search experts, has completed a second round of funding to the tune of $25 million. The round was led by Madrone Capital Partners and follows on a first round of $8 million from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners....
• AOL Acquires Sphere & Creates Search Interface For iPhone
  Sphere, software that connects contextually relevant content to your content, has been purchased by AOL. The Sphere Blog confirms the acquisition, and TechCrunch suggests the purchase price was at about $25 million. Sphere initially launched as a blog search engine but then adapted into a "related content engine," with clients...
• Facebook Adds Lexicon And Outside Content
  Facebook hasn't yet added Web search but it is allowing users to import content from third-party sites. Users are now permitted to import stories and content (into their mini-feeds) from a handful of sites: Flickr, Yelp, Picasa, and del.icio.us to start with, Digg and others to come. The intention is...
• 1 Week Left Until SMX Social Media Marketing
  SMX Social Media Marketing takes place next week - April 22-23 - in Long Beach, CA. Not registered yet? There's still time. Register and join us for this one of a kind event for internet marketers who want to learn the traffic-driving benefits of working with social media sites and...
• iCrossing: Democrat Obama Winning In Overall Search Volume, Republican John McCain Outspending Rivals On Paid Search
  The finding that Republican presidential candidate and presumptive nominee John McCain is outspending (by 2x) Democrats Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton on issues as well as buying his opponents' "brand terms" is one of the findings of a fascinating new iCrossing report, "How America Searches: Election ‘08 Update."...