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The U.S. Department of Justice is deepening their investigation into the Yahoo!-Bing deal.  They’ve asked both Microsoft and Yahoo! for more information about their search engine deal.  In July, the two companies announced a deal that would have Microsoft’s Bing power Yahoo’s search with a split of the ad revenue. … Continue Reading »

Microsoft and Yahoo are reportedly in the final stages of ironing out a deal that will involve the two companies partnering up to provide online searches and web advertisements.  The details of the potential deal are sketchy, but it seems as though Microsoft would pay Yahoo billions of dollars to… Continue Reading »

Gadgetell decided to do a Coke vs. Pepsi scenario, but with Google vs. Bing.  You know, put them head to head and search out the same material to see how they compared.  I admit that I am one of those people that is so used to going to Google to… Continue Reading »

According to their official blog, Google says this morning’s outage was caused by a “system error” that rerouted some traffic through Asia, causing a traffic jam.  The bottleneck resulted in GMail, Blogger, and Google itself loading slowly and in some cases being totally unavailable.  Anyone on Twitter knows it caused… Continue Reading »

Google has announced changes to its search results that it says will get users to what they are searching for as quickly as possible.  In looking at those changes, it appears what they are really designed to do is keep you on the search results page as long as possible,… Continue Reading »