Gadgetopia: "Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft have gotten together and actually agreed on extensions to the REP — the Robots Exclusion Protocol, otherwise known as your robots.txt file."

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BusinessWeek: There's been no shortage of opinions on the failed takeover as bloggers offer plenty of advice for CEOs Yang and Ballmer—plus a few laughs.

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eWeek: Yahoo's CTO offers a bold, promising glimpse of the future of the portal as a social network ... just as Microsoft prepares to move in.

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"It's like the Justice League of social media: Google, Yahoo, and News Corp.'s MySpace.com announced on Tuesday that they have formed the OpenSocial Foundation, a non-profit group to support the OpenSocial initiative that Google kick-started last year as a way to promote a universal standard for developer applications on social-networking sites."

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Sure, Yahoo's new service is already driving almost as much traffic to
outside Web articles as Digg does. But how does that help Yahoo?

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The number of ad clicks fell in January for Google and Yahoo. But how important are those click-through rates, anyway?

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"In one of the most significant moves yet in the growing push toward
service interoperability on the Web, tech giant Yahoo announced
Thursday that it is supporting the OpenID 2.0 standard for a universal Internet log-in."

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"Under CEO Jerry Yang's direction, the Web portal is trying to return to its tech roots and shift away from being a media catch-all"

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