Back in August, I wrote about the launch of Google Caffeine – the search leader’s next generation architecture aimed at improving their indexing infrastructure.The less fancy version: to keep up with the growth of content, Google’s trying to improve the speed-of-delivery, depth, and relevance of what you see when you do a search with them.
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There’s been some really interesting stuff happening in search over the last 24 hours. Here’s a quick recap:
First, Facebook’s acquisition of Friendfeed and subsequent immediate launch of live search has led to lots of speculation that, together, the two might make a formidable team that will challenge Google in real-time search.
Second, what Google is calling [...]

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The oft-talked about deal is done. Pending federal approval, Yahoo and Microsoft did what they needed to do – combine forces to become a better foe for Google. It’s not a true merger, mind you, but it’s a pretty interesting partnership.
Here are the basics of the deal between Yahoo and Microsoft:

Bing will exclusively serve as [...]

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