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Twitter Founder to Murdoch: Blocking Google Will Fail Fast

As the race to save traditional news media continues, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone had some choice words to say about NewsCorp CEO Rupert Murdoch’s plan to prevent Google from spidering content on NewsCorp sites like The Wall Street Journal:

Instead of trying to “put the genie back in the bottle” and revert to an [...]

Caselaw Now Searchable in Google Scholar

Google is on a tear. Over the past several months, it has rolled-out several new products: FastFlip and Image Swirl among them. Now it has incorporated full-text legal opinions for state and federal courts into Google Scholar.

By adding caselaw into Scholar, Google is squarely taking aim and paid services like Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis. [...]

Introducing Google Image Swirl

Google just continues to shake up the world of online content distribution. Its recent foray into news content aggregation caused many to reconsider the possibilities inherent in online content syndication. Now, Google is shaking up the staid world of online image search.

Having launched Image Search back in 2001, Google is now looking for [...]

Down And Out With Yahoo Search

In a discovery that will surprise no one, Yahoo is continuing to lose share in the search marketing arena to Google and Bing:

It’s heading in the wrong direction — toward zero. Yahoo represented 18% of the U.S. search market in October, according to comScore — an all-time low. Meanwhile, Google reached an all-time high at [...]

Google Takes On Twitter With Hot Trends Integration

Google continues to launch skirmishes against anyone who would carve-out a piece of the Interwebs for itself. The latest target: Twitter.