Google Is Shutting Down Answer Service
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The service failed to gain much traction with users, especially when compared to a rival service by Yahoo.
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A swath of the Internet is set to go silent tomorrow, as online music broadcasters shut down to protest a plan that will sharply increase the royalties they pay to recording companies and musicians.
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A legal campaign against sites that help people share films online appears to have forced a popular site to close.
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AllofMP3.com, a Russian online music service accused of skirting copyright law, has shut down but may be back in business elsewhere, authorities said.
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Science & environment: Technology group criticised after forcing a website which reported on the firm's activities to close down
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Handheld maker says it will close down its Palm.Net wireless e-mail and Web service soon.
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We turned off share.opml.org yesterday, for good, as far as I know. It was a good idea, but we never got it together to make it the powerhouse I wanted it to be.  Now that Google and Bloglines both have discovery mechanisms for feeds that you might like, based on what you and others like, there would only be a future for SYO if it were a thriving and growing community, and it isn't.  Normally, I'd leave a site like that running indefinitely, but this one needed its own server, and I wanted to cut my server expenses now that my S3 bill is going up, serving some very big JPEGs and generally being the back-end for a community that is growing, the people using FlickrFan. If there's a big demand to bring it back, we can -- but that's going to require cash flow to go with it. At this point, I don't think it's a good investment for me. Still diggin!
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EBay Inc. became the latest Web site to say it will stop using Microsoft Corp.'s Passport user authentication system, as Microsoft continues to scale back the service.
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Google Print, Google Print, Argh Argh Argh! Since I got back from Web Search University I have been buried in sites and resources to review.
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American Blinds & Wallpaper Factory Inc. has dropped trademark infringement lawsuit against Google after a four-year fight.
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Silence over Inquisition 21 Google has delisted www.inquisition21.com, the website campaigning against many of the Operation Ore child pornography convictions. The last time the search giant's crawlers checked the site out was on 10 September.â¦
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GameTap is shutting down the servers for its Myst Online multiplayer online game, but site will remain live.
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The operators of Suprnova.org apologize to the service's users and quietly pull the plug. The shutdown follows hot on the heels of Hollywood's legal moves against BitTorrent tracker servers.
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Small mercies A hosting firm caught up in a row over the pay of carers for the elderly has reversed a decision to shut down an online campaign against cuts.â¦
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By JUDY O'ROURKE  SANTA CLARITA -- A popular community Web site that was recently mimicked by a copycat appears to have shut down the imitator, its owner said Tuesday.
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Google has decided to pull the plug on Google Answers, which allowed people to pose questions that researchers answered for a fee.
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Some BlackBerry users in North America experienced problems on Friday when a software issue meant that the email service shut down, leaving the handheld device&#39;s email capabilities disabled.