Re: Bing Tries To Buy The News on TechCrunch

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:20:46 +0000

In order to actually make a dent in Google’s market share, Bing would have to pay such exorbitant sums to so many different news companies that it would be difficult to recoup its investment. Bing certainly get some marketing buzz out of any such move, but that’s about it.

Here’s a list of links about this:

Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact on FT
Thoughts On A “Killer” Bing-News Corp Deal & The Myth Of An “OPEC For News” on search engine land
Microsoft Offers To Pay News Corp To “De-List” Itself From Google on The Business Insider
Will News Corp move its content to Microsoft’s Bing? on The Guardian

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A possible future for Chrome OS

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:54:38 +0000

I’m writing this after building Chrome OS from scratch and running it from a USB drive. In fact, what I built and ran wasn’t Chrome OS but instead Chromium OS. There’s a big difference not just in the name. According to Google:

Today we are open-sourcing the [Chrome OS] project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source community and developers. As with the Google Chrome browser, development will be done in the open from this point on. This means the code is free, accessible to anyone and open for contributions.

Market on Bruno Pedro

Re: Bing Tries To Buy The News on TechCrunch

A possible future for Chrome OS