Archive for March, 2008
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
New Search Engine Searchme.com
Here is a first look at a new visual search engine at searchme.com.Searchme does look good, resembling a mashup of Google with Apple’s popular Cover Flow three-dimensional graphical user interface used on its iTunes service, with a little of Ask.com’s categories thrown in.For now, Searchme is only going into private beta, adding users by invitation [...]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Google Closes Acquisition of DoubleClick
Google Closes Acquisition of DoubleClick
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., (March 11, 2008) – Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has completed its acquisition of DoubleClick, a company that offers online ad serving and management technology to advertisers, web publishers and ad agencies.
Eric Schmidt, Google’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said, “We are thrilled that our [...]
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Ask.com Downsizing and Refocusing
Today CNN published an article about some major changes in the way Ask.com is going to be doing business moving forward. They are changing their focus from an all inclusive, interactive search engine and adapting it to target a specific audience.
With the change it will return to its roots by concentrating on finding answers to [...]
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Sun Microsystems acquires MySQL
Here is some interesting news for all those web developers out there from www.mysqlconf.com
We are pleased to announce that on February 25, 2008, Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL. This is great news for Sun, MySQL, the open source community, and the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo.
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