People Search Digest

They’re a little late to the party, but Microsoft finally one-upped Google’s search merger with social networking giant Myspace. Yesterday, Microsoft announced that their budding relationship with Facebook would soon expand to include integration of the Microsoft Live search function on the popular social networking site. Details are scant as of now, but we do [...]

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Google is taking a break from its ongoing tussle with Microsoft to test a search interface it has been developing for about a year on randomly determined users. The new interface melds the thumbs-up-thumbs-down social networking ethos of Digg with your basic Google search. Essentially the new Google search allows users to rate search results [...]

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Will the Shakespearean drama that is the Yahoo-Microsoft merger ever end? Not if Carl Icahn has anything to say about it. As you may recall, Icahn is the bullyish investor who advocated a total takeover of Yahoo’s board following the breakdown of Microsoft merger talks. Though Yahoo rebounded from its ill-fated affair with Microsoft by [...]

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