 | | Yahoo, Microsoft make search pact official | | It took eight months, but the search strategy that Microsoft and Yahoo settled on after years of flirting is about to get started. The U.S. Department of Justice and European Union gave their blessing to the deal late this week, paving the way for Microsoft to take over the business of providing search results to Yahoo while Yahoo will get to sell search ads on both Yahoo and Bing. Yahoo is busy reminding anyone who will listen that it will still control the way search results are presented on its pages, while Microsoft thinks it can improve its search algorithms with access to Yahoo's massive audience. It will take some time for the companies to implement the complicated deal. In the meantime, we've got a list of questions and answers that are sure to arise now that the deed is done.
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CNET.com |  | | New on Webware | | | Google buys Remail, nears On2 deal
Posted by Tom Krazit
Google snapped up Remail this week, and the first thing it did was to cut Remail's ties with Apple's App Store. That's a pretty big hint as to what Google has in mind for the technology behind Remail, which developed an e-mail search application for the iPhone. Read more |  | Salesforce.com gets social with Chatter beta
Posted by Dave Rosenberg
Salesforce.com this week announced the launch of a private program to 100 beta customers for Chatter, the enterprise collaboration platform first announced last year. Read more | | Digsby update brings Windows 7 features
Posted by Seth Rosenblatt
Digsby released a new update recently, focusing on enhancements specific to Windows 7, as well as tweaking several of the social-networking features in the controversial multiple-protocol instant-messaging client. Social-networking changes in this build of Digsby include adding a "dislike" button to Facebook, bringing commenting to updates from MySpace friends, and revamped Facebook notification pop-ups. Read more | | ShadyURL makes URLs entertainingly suspicious
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
ShadyURL is a wonderfully satirical link service that turns even legitimate URLs into something that even the least tech-savvy friend or family member would know better than to click on. It inserts anything from what appear to be hijacking commands, to profanity and the names of well-known malware. In other words, whomever you send one of these links to is likely to say "there's no way I'm clicking on that," even though it's likely to lead to a safe site. Read more | | CheckoutCheckins maps your Foursquare travels
Posted by Josh Lowensohn
Foursquare is great for telling people where you are, but short of its badge system, which awards heavy use with virtual trophies, the service has always been lacking a sense of reflection--a way for users to look back on all their check-ins and gain something from it. That's where CheckoutCheckins can help. It tracks your last 50 check-ins on a map. Read more | | |  | Tweaking Google Buzz | | | Google makes it easier to disable Buzz
Posted by Jessica Dolcourt
Last week we took you through a laborious step-by-step process to disable Buzz, Google's new social network. Google's engineers made some quick changes as a result of the backlash, including fixing a security flaw affecting mobile Buzz users, tweaking a setup process that has you manually accepting followers, and providing an easier way to disable Buzz if you want to give it the heave-ho. Read more | | Parlor trick: Buzzzy searches Buzz
Posted by Rafe Needleman
U.K. search firm WorkDigital has launched Buzzzy, a search engine for Google's Buzz. You should use it if you want to see what's buzzing on a topic and, for some reason, don't know that Google Buzz already has its own search function. Read more |
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