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Microsoft strikes search deal with Baidu and What if Generation Dora overruns Facebook?
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(FT) -- Baidu, China's biggest search engine by revenue, on Monday announced a partnership with Microsoft that would allow its users to see English-language search results generated by Bing, the US company's search engine.No financial considerations were involved in the deal, which will see Bing's search results labeled and integrated into Baidu's search results from later this year.Any advertising revenue generated as a result of the improved search results will go to Baidu as it controls the site. However, the deal will help Microsoft promote Bing in the world's biggest internet market, where it has less than a 1 per cent market share, according to research firm Analysys International.By contrast, Baidu controls more than three-quarters of the Chinese market while Google still holds 19.6 per cent, despite losing market share after the US company partially retreated from China last year. [Read the full article]
Omar L. Gallaga writes about technology for the Austin American-Statesman and the newspaper's tech blog, Digital Savant. He sometimes contributes to NPR's All Tech Considered segment on "All Things Considered."(CNN) -- By now, we all know the story of how Facebook started young by channeling the desires and delusions of smart Harvard students and spreading across college campuses.Then it got older and older, pulling along in its oceanic wake young professionals, their friends, their parents and their grandparents.Recently, though, there have been fears that the site is getting too young. While Facebook's guidelines say the site is meant for those 13 and older, evidence suggests many younger kids are using the social network.According to a study released by Consumer Reports, about 7.5 million children under 13 are members. How did they get there? What do they want? Are you terrified yet?Facebook itself may not consider its underage users to be a problem. [Read the full article]
Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- Facebook is encouraging its members to talk face to face -- over the computer.The social networking giant introduced a video-calling feature on Wednesday in partnership with Skype, the popular Internet video-chat provider.The product comes a week after Google launched a competing social network, called Google+, which also includes a video-chatting program.Facebook's version will show up on the site as a "call" button at the top of users' profile pages. By clicking that or finding someone in a new "buddy list" bar on the right-hand side, Facebook users can talk to each other as long as they have webcams. The company began turning that service on for millions of users on Wednesday and will add it to more accounts over time, spokespeople said.This is "the world's easiest one-click way" to chat over video, Facebook engineer Philip Su said at the news conference here. [Read the full article]
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