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I’m surprised that even Kara Swisher has missed this. The bloggers are going nuts, once again, over the email that a Google lawyer sent to Microsoft regarding Microsoft’s proposed purchase of Yahoo. Here’s what’s really going on:

Regular viewers of the show “House” will know that the title character’s support staff has (supposedly) left; previews for the new season have shown the brilliant doctor discussing diagnoses with a janitor.  But if the fictional character knew about a network called Sermo, he’d be able to find all the expert opinions he could want.

Verizon is first on a London-based company's list of lawsuits to file (or licensing agreements to be extracted) after winning the rights to a 1999 patent for location-based search. Next up: any online service offering local search services.

Did you know Photobucket controls 41 percent of photo-sharing market? Do you know why they do? Answer: MySpace, MySpace, MySpace. The News Corp.-owned social networking phenom is showing that if you really want market share, you have to win over MySpacers.

The following is a cautionary tale for tech recruiters everywhere - do a little research on your recruiting target first.

Every time you serve someone, you make someone else wait. Every time you publish a piece of content you make other content less findable.

Who blogs? Apparently a lot of people according to the new study released by comScore networks. Who reads those blogs? Even more people and the demographics involved are highly sought after by marketers of all levels. With over 50 million U.S. Internet users visiting the blogosphere, that's a lot of market to aim for.

Search engine optimization is a very critical task in the success of any website. In recent times search engines seem to have complicated this task further by their frequent changes in rules. This has caused lots of anxiety as some of these changes have seen some sites lose virtually all their regular traffic instantly as their rankings have tumbled.