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Google Image Search Gets Closer To Picasa

On Picasa’s homepage, a slogan proclaims, “Fast and easy photo sharing from Google.”  The exchange now seems to work in the other direction, as well, since Picasa results have been integrated into Google Image Search.

TV 2.0: a Micro Audience World?

This is an interesting panel discussion we held a few weeks ago at Swissnex, which was designed to start a conversation between Swiss entrepreneurs and US ones. The topic? The future of television content in a multimedia world.

LinkedIn Growing More Quickly than Facebook

Nick O’Neill has an interesting post on his very good “Social Times” site. (How, by the way, does he find time to post so much??)

What's Interesting In eBusiness & Search?

I subscribe to hundreds of RSS feeds in order to keep up with the world we cover here at WebProNews... eBusiness and search. Here are some of the more interesting blog posts and news articles from around the web.

Facebook Is on the Right Track

Over the past 4 months, I have written many articles on what the advertising face of social networks should  look like.  While I would like to think they were reading my columns (unlikely), I am happy to see my vision of user / community targeting is where it seems Facebook is heading.  I was actually surprised at how many of the people I spoke with at Adtech not understanding the potentially gigantic platform this can be.

Google, SearchMash Partner With Snap

SearchMash is Google’s experimental engine; you can think of it as another Google Labs.  And now a Flash version of SearchMash has become available, which has some people wondering about Google’s relationship with Snap - and the future of Google.com.

Mozilla's Top Revenue's From Google

Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker in a blog post writes: Mozilla’s revenues (including both Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation) for 2006 were $66,840,850, up approximately 26% from 2005 revenue of $52,906,602. As in 2005 the vast majority of this revenue is associated with the search functionality in Mozilla Firefox, and the majority of that is from Google.

Yahoo Makes The Assist, Web 2.0-ifies Results

Just as the commotion died down over Microsoft's Live Search update, Yahoo comes forward with some thunder of its own, unveiling its new Search Assist feature, an interface also focused more on user intent (the new buzz word in search, apparently), with a healthy dose of user-generated content thrown in for good measure.

Google Tools Around With Print Ads

The company unveiled a new tool to assist its AdWords advertisers in creating ads destined for the world of newsprint.

CBS Just Can't Get Along with Bloggers?

It was bloggers who forced CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather into early retirement, and yet CBS – at least somebody there – is still being condescending towards the new media.