DOJ Officially Opens Investigation Into Google Book Search (PC World) PC World - The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed on Thursday that it is investigating a settlement involving Google Book Search for possible antitrust violations, following months of speculation that the agency had its eye on the service. In China, Games Get Serious (Investor's Business Daily) Investor's Business Daily - When Sohu.com, a leading Web portal in China, announced plans last year to spin off its fast-growing online games business, investors balked. Ask.com Bets on Semantic Search, Targeting Special Audiences (PC World) PC World - In the past eight months, Ask.com has unfurled a set of changes to its search engine that the IAC unit calls a success, although its share of U.S. search queries has actually shrunk during that time period. Microsoft adds selected "tweets" to Bing (AFP)
Bing Searches Up-To-the-Minute Tweets on Twitter (NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Bing is now doing Twitter. The recently launched Microsoft search engine is now allowing users to search for various kinds of real-time data, including tweets from Twitter. Bing Builds an Underwhelming Twitter Search (PC World) PC World - Looking for a competitive edge in the Internet search wars, Microsoft plans to index Twitter updates in real time for Bing, its recently rebranded search engine. Microsoft's Bing Now Indexes (Some) Tweets (PC Magazine) PC Magazine - Microsoft announced Thursday that it has added tweets to the list of content discoverable through Bing, its new search engine. Microsoft posts modest search gains with Bing (AFP)
New Trojan Puts Sneaky Twist on Click Fraud (PC World) PC World - A new piece of malicious software has been discovered that cheats Google and potentially other search engines out of money. You can save this news page by submitting it to your favorite sites:
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AFP - Microsoft is integrating messages from prominent users of Twitter, the hot micro-blogging service, into the results generated by its new Internet search engine Bing.
AFP - New search engine Bing helped Microsoft increase its share of the search market in the United States in June but, still lags behind Yahoo! and Google, a Web analytics firm reported Wednesday.