The Yahoo! Search team was in San Jose last week at Search Engine Strategies, and in addition to participating in panel discussions on semantic...

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In a battle for universal search engine foosball domination, Yahoo!, Google and Microsoft competed in a clash of the titans at SES San Jose. Dani...

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by Vera H-C Chan Sixteen days of watching the human body perform at its best ought to prod even the most diehard couch potato. Yes, post-bikini trauma may explain a recent surge in online "exercise" explorations, but surely more than a few folks mus...

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Preparing the basil Today is TV chef Rachael Ray's 40th birthday, and I, for one, hope it's a happy one. As much as I hate to admit it, I can't stop watching her Food Network show, "30 Minute Meals." I know, I know -- she is impossibly perky, her throaty voice gets on my nerves, and I wou...

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by Gordon Hurd We're sure many people consider the weekend a time of relaxation and recreation. But just because it's Saturday or Sunday doesn't mean we turn off our brains here at the Buzz. Behold the top five things we learned this weekend. Vice pre...

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by Mike Krumboltz The Olympics are dominating the Buzz, but there's more to life than balance beams, diving boards, and Michael Phelps. This past week, a woman sued Apple, rumors surged that R...

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by Claudine Zap ...9/11 Mystery: Solved. The case of the collapsed World Trade Center 7 has finally been put to rest. According to Popular Mechanics, some conspiracy theorists posited there wa...

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by Molly McCall We did our best to look away. After the run-in with the chupacabra and the smackdown over Bigfoot, we didn't think we could go...

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by Vera H-C Chan When you're trying to decide where to spend four-plus years of your life, rank matters.Proximity, tuition, and size figure into deciding where to go to college. More complicated criteria require pr...

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by Vera H-C Chan With last week's releases still whipping up a Web storm, the weekend premieres look like a weak front that's just passing through. Interest is spiking for limited release "I.O.U.S.A." (+629%), called the "Inconvenient Truth" of economics, and...

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