Verizon to include Microsoft Live Search on phones
Microsoft has struck a five-year deal with Verizon to pre-install its Live Search as the default search engine on all phones sold in the U.S.
Google determines correlation between cookies, dieting
A stunning, completely unanticipated revelation: once a year, sometime in mid-December, Google searches on the word "cookies" spike. Almost immediately afterwards, there's a spike in searches for the word "diet."
2008: Yahoo's year to forget
For Jerry Yang, 2008 was going to be the year when Yahoo's long-awaited technology and business turnaround began in earnest. Instead, the year brought two big rounds of layoffs, an embarrassing exodus of high-profile managers, disappointing financials, a tanking stock price, free-falling employee morale and little or no advances in key areas, like search usage and search advertising. Oh yeah, and yet another corporate reorganization that many cynically viewed as more spinning of the wheels.
Another online executive leaves Microsoft
As the year comes to a close, Microsoft is losing yet another executive in its online business -- Brad Goldberg, general manager of Live Search.
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