+ Citysearch Adds MenuPages Content to Site (via ScreenWerk)
Remember when Amazon was scanning menus and making them searchable? Sevice launched and 2002. Here’s a screen cap.

+ Tracking Wikipedia’s Not-So-Neutral Editors (via Wired Campus)
We’re not all that surprised about this post and what the Wikipedia Scanner shows. In this post from last week we review many Wikipedia articles and also talk about how some Wikipedia content can make it in, while other content gets removed or not added in the first place.

+ Yahoo Passes Google In User Satisfaction Index (via Dow Jones)
From the article:

Yahoo Inc. captured the top spot from rival Google Inc. for the first time in the University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index report on electronic-business Web sites. Yahoo’s customer satisfaction score of 79 on the ACSI’s 100-point scale rose almost 4% this year, while Google slipped 3.7% to 78, its second yearly decline in a row. IAC Search & Media property Ask.com*, with a score of 75, posted this year’s biggest increase and Time Warner Inc.’s AOL.com the biggest decline, down more than 9% to 67. Microsoft Corp.’s MSN.com, with a 75 score, is up only one point this year.

* Gary is Director of Online Resources at Ask.com

+ Google and Microsoft Look to Change Health Care (via NY Times)

In politics, every serious candidate for the White House has a health care plan. So too in business, where the two leading candidates for Web supremacy, Google and Microsoft, are working up their plans to improve the nation’s health care.

See Also: Ask.com Launches Health Smart Answers on Web Results Pages

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