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Welcome to the Thursday, January 22 SearchEngineWorld Daily News Tracker featuring news of Microsoft cutting 5,000 jobs, embedding videos in GoogleTalk, YouTube expanding its purchasing program, Yahoo's new anti-spam acquisitions, Wired's video search engine smackdown, eBay's losses, and more.


Lane R Ellis      
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 4:41 pm on Jan. 22, 2009 (utc 0)

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Microsoft Plans to Cut 5,000 Jobs

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/technology/companies/23soft.html
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090122/microsoft-earnings-and-revenues-take-a-big-hit-5000-to-be-laid-off/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123263292538206051.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE50L3IQ20090122
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7845237.stm
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/01/22/ap5951620.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/earnings/2009-01-22-microsoft_N.htm
http://www.pcworld.com/article/158113/microsoft_to_cut_5000_as_income_falls.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/112e40e6-e895-11dd-a4d0-0000779fd2ac.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10147922-56.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/22/microsoft_q2_results/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10147964-75.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=aZD9lJuxkzR0
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/microsoft-lost-nearly-500-million-on-the-web-last-quarter/
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-microsoft-cutting-up-to-5000-jobs/
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/microsoft-laying-off-5000-msft
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Windows/Microsoft-Results-Disappoint-5000-Job-Cuts-Coming/
http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=64030
http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/01/22/microsoft-fy-q2-misses-cutting-5000-jobs-stock-slides/
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/22/microsoft-cutting-1400-jobs-today-5000-over-18-months/
http://www.slashgear.com/microsoft-to-cut-5000-jobs-after-11-profit-tumble-2231598/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1832
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jan/22/microsoft-quarter-down
http://www.webmasterworld.com/msft/3832250.htm

New In Google Talk: Embedded Videos From YouTube And Google Video

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/new-in-google-talk-embedded-youtube-videos/

YouTube expands click-to-buy program / will give major partners own ads

http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=n-q9Enl2O2Y
http://mashable.com/2009/01/21/youtube-click-to-buy-overlay-ads/
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=98851
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/21/exclusive-youtube-will-soon-let-big-content-partners-bring-their-own-ads/
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090121/google-tries-squeezing-more-money-out-of-youtube/
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/21/youtube-still-hunting-for-money-with-affiliate-ad-expansion/

IAC’s Ask.com Acquires Domain Name Monetizer Sendori

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/iacs-askcom-acquires-domain-name-monetizer-sendori/

Google-like search system to link U.S. intelligence agency databases

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123258232280204323.html

Microsoft to restructure MSN with Yahoo executive: report

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090122/msn-changes-afoot/
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090122/yahooyet-another-hiring-over-and-out-hadley-heads-to-microsoft/

Fear of Google grows in advertisers, regulators: International Advertising Association survey

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090121-microsoft-funded-survey-drives-ad-competition-point-home.html

AOL Adds E-Mail Plug-ins for Google, Yahoo Mail

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Midmarket/AOL-adds-Email-Plugins-for-Google-Yahoo-Mail/
http://mashable.com/2009/01/21/aol-mail-plugins/

Yahoo's Flickr photo-sharing site gives some users preview of forthcoming Getty image program

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10147022-2.html

CNET asks: How much will Google benefit from cost cuts?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10147211-93.html

Yahoo tries harder to screen out spam with Abaca and Return Path

http://www.ymailblog.com/blog/2009/01/yahoo-mail-beefs-up-its-anti-spam-support/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10147339-2.html
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2234824/yahoo-touts-spam-protections
(related: Spammers defy Gates's junk mail predictions)
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2234867/cluely-reminds-gates-spam

Lavigne, Radiohead Move to Google's YouTube as Illegal Downloads Persist

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=abNfqWY5vbKo

Examining search ad spending decrease last quarter ; Time To Ask Google

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090122/how-bad-did-search-ads-get-hit-last-quarter-time-to-ask-google/

Social Search Engine Delver seeking funding to stave off closure

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/social-search-engine-delver-on-death-watch/

Veoh video site updates search plug-in to show related clips

http://www.veoh.com/videocompass
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/22/veoh-video-compass-a-handy-automatic-video-search-plugin/

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt interview with Jim Cramer

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/21/eric-schmidt-talks-google-apple-energy-obama-with-jim-cramer/

Former Ask.com chief executive Steve Berkowitz to lead online real estate company Move

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-industry-moves-ex-iac-microsoft-exec-berkowitz-lands-at-move/

Court To AOL: California Locale OK For Class-Action Suit

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=98849

Searchme Search Engine Takes Pay-Per-Click Visual

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=98852

Google launches theme-maker for customizing iGoogle

http://www.google.com/ig/tm
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-01-21-n77.html

Open Sourcing Google Desktop Gadgets

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/01/open-sourcing-google-desktop-gadgets.html

Why you can't find a library book in your search engine: Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jan/22/library-search-engines-books

Google offers AdWords strategy tips

http://adwords.blogspot.com/2009/01/do-more-with-less-part-1-of-3.html

Microsoft LiveSearch offers new SearchPerks promotion

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2009/01/21/searchperks-giving-away-double-tickets-for-three-days

Britannica 2.0 shows Wikipedia how it's done: London Times

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5564836.ece

Google Docs Design Flaw May Fool You Into Making Your Docs Editable by Anyone

http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/google-docs-des.html

YouTube, SmouTube: Wired Video Search Smackdown

http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/video-search-sm.html

WEB / OTHER

Twitter sets API limit of 20,000 hourly requests

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10147535-2.html
http://blog.socialtoo.com/2009/01/21/twitter-limits-potential-app-growth-how-this-hurts-our-users/
http://mashable.com/2009/01/21/twitter-api-gets-limited/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/is_twitter_strangling_its_api.php
http://www.inquisitr.com/16075/whats-twitters-real-motive-for-the-api-cuts/

VivaKi Takes Plunge, Pools Resources With CBS, Hulu, Microsoft, Others For New Video Ad Format

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=98882

Publisher Rethinks the Daily: It’s Free and Printed and Has Blogs All Over

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/technology/start-ups/22blogpaper.html

EBay’s Income Declines 31% as Economy Reduces Traffic

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/technology/companies/22ebay.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123257451678903687.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ee905a80-e815-11dd-b2a5-0000779fd2ac.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/22/ebay_q4_earnings/
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=ayhdYEAj0XTo
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090121/ebay-shareholders-high-bidders-in-auction-for-crappy-earnings/
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/ebay-misses-q4-revenue-guidance-light-ebay
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2009/tc20090121_143541.htm
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-ebay22-2009jan22,0,67698.story
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090122/tc_afp/usitinternetcompanyearningsebay
(related: Amazon is killing eBay)
http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2009/01/21/amazon-is-killing-ebay.aspx
http://www.webmasterworld.com/ecommerce/3832258.htm

Mobile marketing start-tp 4INFO raises money to send text message ads

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/start-up-raises-money-to-send-text-message-ads/
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/01/22/4info-gets-20-million/
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/22/4info-gets-20m-more-for-text-message-advertising/

Media Firms Team Up to Test Online-Video Ad Formats

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123258749787704697.html

China extends "lewd" crackdown to mobile phones

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE50K3Y320090121
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/21/china_extends_anti_pr0n_campaign_to_mobiles/

U.S. trademark office overturns patent for virtual subdomains

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090121-virtual-subdomain-patent-deemed-obvious-gets-overturned.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10147722-38.html

Firefox projects look to boost browser OpenGL graphics

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090121-smil-animation-and-3d-canvas-library-for-firefox.html

Turn Your Blog Into a Widget With Blidget Pro

http://www.widgetbox.com/make/blidgetpro/
http://mashable.com/2009/01/22/blog-widget-blidget-pro/

Seesmic API gets Twitter client Twhirl, Ping.fm boost

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10147730-2.html

BBC's Semantic Music Project

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bbcs_semantic_music_project.php

Skype’s Growth Starts to Slow

http://www.salon.com/tech/giga_om/tech_insider/2009/01/21/skype_shows_signs_of_slowing_growth/
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/21/ebay-paypal-and-skype-cant-save-declining-marketplace/

 


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