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Stories Discussed In The Show

• Powerset Launches "Understanding Engine" For Wikipedia Content
  After nearly two years in the making -- and plenty of hype -- Powerset has finally rolled out a "natural language" search engine. It's not a Google killer. It's barely a business model right now. But at least it's something the world can finally play with, and under the hood,...
• Google Launches "FriendConnect" Social Widgets For Site Owners
  Contrary to some earlier reports, Google's new FriendConnect, launching today, is not focused on data portability or a direct answer to MySpace "Data Availability" or the new Facebook Connect. While there's a data portability dimension, it's focused on the flip side of the equation: site owners who want to make...
• Microsoft's Facebook Ad Deal Doesn't Include Search
  Wondering why Microsoft's search isn't being promoted on Facebook? Greg Sterling has noted this odd absence a couple of times, such as in his article today on a possible Microsoft purchase of Facebook. Others have as well. The answer is simple. Last year's big Microsoft-Facebook ad deal didn't include search....
• Yahoo Search Ambassador Program Closing
  The Search Engine Roundtable reports that it seems to be no longer possible to sign up for the Ambassador Program. Although there is no specific confirmation from Yahoo on that on the Ambassador program page, when one tries to sign up via an affiliate site, we get a notice that...
• Google Executives Defend Potential Yahoo Search Deal, Microsoft Releases "Proxy Directors" And Looks Beyond Search And "The Last Click"
  Yesterday before Google's annual meeting of shareholders, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page fielded questions from reporters on a range of subjects, including a potential paid search deal with Yahoo and its anti-trust implications. Their argument was that a future paid search deal could...
• Google AdWords Adds Landing Page Load Time Metric To Reports & Launching Mid-June
  As expected, Google has announced that landing page load time will become a quality score factor in Google AdWords starting mid-June. In preparation for that launch, Google has started showing advertisers their metrics for the landing page load time for each keyword's landing page. Here is a picture of what...
• Yahoo Labels Google As Malware? No, Yahoo URL Mix Up
  Google Is A Malware Site (Says Yahoo) from TechCrunch reports a funny bug at Yahoo, that accidently made it look like Google's home page had Malware on it, based on the Yahoo SearchScan feature that was recently launched. A search for Astalavista at Yahoo returned, what appeared to be a...
• Cast Your Vote For Doodle 4 Google Contestants
  You can now cast your vote for the Doodle 4 Google competition at google.com/doodle4google/vote.html. Again, the winning doodle will be showcased on the Google home page on May 22, 2008 and the winner also gets a $10,000 college scholarship and a $25,000 technology grant for his/her school. To vote, go...