Search Briefs
+ Ask.Com’s New Look Scores Big Points Against Search Rivals (via Wall St. Journal)
Walt Mossberg weighs in on what’s up at Ask.com!
See Also: Gary’s New Job and A Look at What Ask.com Offers
See Also: Gary’s Interview about his New Role at Ask.com (via LJ)
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+ Google Files With SEC To Offer More Shares of GOOG
5.3 million shares of Google Class A shares to be precise. That’s about $2.1 billion based on tonight’s closing price. What for? “This offering will partially meet the anticipated needs of index funds to purchase Google Class A common stock when Google is added to the S&P 500 Index at the close of trading on March 31, 2006. Proceeds from the offering will be used for general corporate purposes, including working capital and capital expenditures, and possible acquisitions of complementary businesses, technologies or other assets…We have no current agreements or commitments with respect to any material acquisitions. Pending such uses, we plan to invest the net proceeds in highly liquid, investment grade securities.”
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+ Happy Birthday to Yahoo 360
The blogging/social networking/community platform celebrates its first birthday.
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+ Microsoft to bring Hotmail onto the desktop (via News.com)
Learn more via the Windows Live Mail Desktop Beta Blog
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+ MSN Live Search Adds “Search Macros” (via SEW Blog)
See Also: Rollyo
Quickly and painlessly create your own site specific search engine. Uses Yahoo database.

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