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Zuckerberg Plans Facebook on Every Phone, but Will Anyone Care?

Speaking at Mobile World Congress, Mark Zuckerberg revealed plans to have Facebook on every phone--with "dozens" due this year. But with tight Facebook integration on most smartphones, what exactly does he mean?READ»

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Ask.com: Stop Copying Us, Google, Bing, Yahoo

Is Ask.com giving up on the algorithmic search battle? Yes, but that's not the whole story. Company President Doug Leeds explains why human-assisted question-and-answer search is the future.READ»

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What Can Yahoo Learn From Malware?

Search engines would be more efficient if they were decentralized, reports MIT's Technology Review. In other words, they'd be faster if they were run like bot-nets. Bot-nets are networks of zombie computers whose processing resources ...READ»

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ChaCha's Mobile Text Search on AT&T One-Ups Google's

ChaCha's text search for mobile is set to debut on AT&T, and while the kinks definitely need working out its results are superior to Google's similar service. But it'll never replace texting your friends.READ»

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Can ChaCha's Humans Compete with Google's Algorithms?

Scott A. Jones talks about the human-guided search engine, competition from other sites, and how ChaCha embraces a Wikipedia-esque structure.READ»