This week in tech, social media, and search engine news…
On Searchviews:
- AOL buys 3rd-place social network Bebo.
- The EU signs off on the Google-DoubleClick deal, but the big G might need to spin off the SEO it got as part of the deal.
- Traditional web companies are lagging in web tracking.
- YouTube opens up APIs and becomes more like a white-label video service.
In other news:
- Facebook will launch an IM service soon.
- Apps go live on MySpace – not everyone who develops will get in, though.
- Hulu publicly launches, but the Silicon Alley Insider’s projected revenue numbers for the video site don’t look great.
- You may have noticed more spam in your Gmail inbox, but it’s not because of bots.
- Google just launched an ad manager that has important implications for publishers and ad networks, and Microsoft wants to do the same with an acquisition soon.
- Google launches Google Sky.
- Yahoo takes steps toward the semantic web.
- Barry Diller goes to court to defend his plan to break up IAC.
- In-flight broadband is coming!
- Will visual search this cool change your search habits?
