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• Google Research probes educasearch engine - Cade Metz, the Register March 10, 2010
  Peter Norvig - current Google Research head and the company's former director of search quality - is exploring some sort of new-age search engine aimed specifically for students. Wednesday, at the search-obsessed SMX West conference in Silicon Valley, Norvig was asked if he was doing anything in "20 per cent" time - Googlespeak for the one day […]
• Hands on: Opera 10.50 makes impressive performance gains - Ryan Paul, ars technica March 10, 2010
  The Opera Web browser has taken a big step forward with the release of version 10.50, a significant update that brings some nice new features and a number of radical improvements under the hood. Opera Software contends that it has taken the lead in performance, leap-frogging its competitors. We conducted benchmarking and some hands-on tests to determine if t […]
• Facebook Drives 3X Traffic to Broadcast Than Google News - Mike Melanson, Read Write Web March 10, 2010
  We've spent some time recently looking at how Facebook has become a bigger driver of traffic to online news than news portals like MyYahoo or Google News, and our initial suspicions were confirmed with some data by the folks at HitWise. In continuing to look at this trend, Heather Hopkins, an analyst with the traffic analysis company, dug a little bit d […]