Hitwise released statistics today that showed Google has nearly 64 percent of the U.S. search market, compared to Yahoo’s 23 percent, Microsoft’s 8 percent and Ask’s 3.5 percent. Year-over-year, Google’s share inched up, Asks’ and Yahoo’s were fairly flat and Microsoft lost market share, nearly 4 [...]

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Zillow.com Chief Executive Rich Barton doesn’t think small. And neither do his investors.

Barton’s Seattle online real estate startup has scored an additional $30 million from Legg Mason Capital Management and existing investors—a huge capital infusion that comes just 19 months after the company unveiled its online home valuation service. It ties Zillow with n2N Commerce [...]

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WASHINGTON —Internet search company Google Inc. has registered in-house lobbyists for the first time since establishing a Washington office in 2005.
Until this year, Google had been using only several outside lobbying firms, including King & Spalding LLP and the Podesta Group, to represent its federal policy interests.

Technology companies in general have been slow to recognize [...]

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I know I’m not the only one who thinks those Chemistry.com commercials are stupid. They show attractive singles, lamenting about why they were rejected by a rival online dating site.

“We don’t know why eHarmony has rejected over a million people looking for love,” goes the tag line. “At Chemistry.com, come as you are.”

So one would [...]

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I don’t normally post stories not related to internet marketing or social networking, but this story – the last line in particular – caught my attention. This story was originally posted by CNet, a very credible source for tech news, about cell phone carriers adding extra mystery fees and charges on to consumer’s monthly bill. [...]

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Depending on your outlook, you will either find this depressing or motivational. A website named the Museum of Conceptual Art has a simple page on its site that allows you to enter your age. After hitting submit, you can see what other people accomplished when they were that same age.

So if you are 23 years [...]

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Parking Stripe Advertising, a three years young agency from Colorado, is responsible for taping over everyday parking stall lines with advertisements. Their unique marketing tool covers those long yellow and white lines with a heavy-duty tape bearing promotional ads. The advertisements themselves cost about $40 per stripe and are made using a heavy-duty tape that’s [...]

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Because opening up the site just wasn’t enough, apparently: Facebook is branching into a new role as an investor. The company has announced a new program called FBFund to provide grants to developers who are interested in creating applications for the Facebook Platform. FBFund, with cash infused by Facebook investors Accel Partners and the Founders [...]

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Yahoo unveils an experimental social network called Mash, apparently designed to lure users away from Facebook
Yahoo is testing an experimental social network service called Mash, apparently designed to lure users away from rivals Facebook and MySpace.

Mash has already been dubbed “an homage to Facebook” – but with a difference: users of the new Yahoo [...]

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Yahoo’s rumored social network, dubbed “Mash,” has arrived. The company started inviting people outside the company to test it on Friday, the company says in a blog.
(Credit: Yahoo) Mash is different from other social networks in that you can start profiles for your friends and “open” your own profile to friends you trust, according [...]

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