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 pharming attack that targeted online banking customers in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific has been shut down.
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Google Inc. doesn't have all the answers &#151; a fact underscored by the Internet search leader's decision to abandon a 4-year-old service that hired researchers to field questions on everything from school homework to sports trivia.
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Google Inc. said on Wednesday that the  auction has closed for its initial public offering.
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Wanna go the cinema instead? Google will drop the invite system for signing up to Gmail service as of tomorrow.â¦
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Notorious adware maker DirectRevenue has closed shop.The company, which was recently doing business as Best Offers, gave no reason for its sudden closure, which was announced on its Web site. &quot;Best Offers and Direct Revenue have ceased operations. To service legacy consumers, we are maintaining this page of uninstall instructions, an uninstall software tool, and an e-mail based support service.&quot;E-mail sent to the Gmail address listed on the company&#39;s Web site was returned as undeliverable.DirectRevenue was founded in 2002, but it managed to make a lot of people unhappy during the course of its short life. Its software, which was often installed without user consent, would bombard victims with unwanted pop-up ads and was difficult to remove.The company was fined $1.5 million by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in February and it was also&#160;sued by the New York attorney general. Critics called the FTC fine a slap on the wrist, however, as the company is thought to have made more than $20 million from its questionable business practices.&quot;This is a business that never should have existed,&quot; said Ben Edelman, a critic of the company who is an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School. &quot;They never did anything useful for users and merely preyed on victims too trusting or hurried to protect themselves from DirectRevenue&#39;s attacks.&quot;Company management had recently positioned Best Offers as a legitimate software company, and Edelman said that he did not know if they were planning on continuing in business under a different name.&quot;The people behind this company walked away with tens of millions of dollars,&quot; he said. &quot;They&#39;ve got the money. If they&#39;re smart, they&#39;ll take it and run.&quot;
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Intelius Inc., a startup that launched online directory assistance for cell-phone numbers, has shut down the service after complaints from consumers and Verizon Wireless.
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A California district court has shut down a controversial Web site in the U.S. that allows whistle blowers to post corporate and government documents online anonymously.
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Amazon.com has officially taken the wraps off its Internet search engine, joining the contest to unseat No. 1 provider Google. A9.
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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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Science & environment: Technology group criticised after forcing a website which reported on the firm's activities to close down
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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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A legal campaign against sites that help people share films online appears to have forced a popular site to close.
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A news site that has allowed its users to write and submit their own articles is shutting down, citing unspecified "business issues."
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And rocket-powered cars Letters Sad news this week as California coastguards were forced to call off the search for Microsoft researcher Jim Gray who has been missing since setting out in his yacht last Sunday. A respected IT personality and database developer, Google chipped in with an offer to use its high resolution satellite imagery to aid the search:â¦
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The name of Court TV is getting disbarred.
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LONDON/BRUSSELS -- Google Inc. has been ordered by a Belgian court to stop reproducing article snippets from French-language newspapers in an unprecedented copyright crackdown over what is a common online practice.