Google and Yahoo Ad Deal Set for October Launch

Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed yesterday that despite pressure from the US Justice Department, the Google Yahoo advertising partnership will proceed with its scheduled launch of early October.
“We are going to move forward,” Schmidt said Thursday (as quoted by the Seattle Times). “We are in the process of talking to the government. They’ve not [...]

Cuil: World’s Biggest, Faster and Smartest Search Engine?

An Internet start-up led by former star Google engineers has unveiled a new web search service that sells itself as the world’s biggest search engine. It aims to outdo Google in size, although it faces an uphill battle changing surfing habits. Cuil (pronounced “cool”) is offering a service at cuil.com that it says can index [...]