Comments on: #5: Ask.com vs Google, Rupert Murdoch wants to sell Myspace to Yahoo!, and workers that oversleep cost employers millions.

By: #36: Nicolas Cage is ready to quit Hollywood, Hot Chip release Made in the Dark, and why Microsoft and Yahoo combined still won’t topple Google. « thelump.net

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:10:34 +0000

[...] level with Ask.com, whilst the rumours of Microsoft forming a partnership started all the way back in week 5, where News Corp (owners of MySpace) were also mentioned. Maybe the focus should be put on how [...]

By: #20: Microsoft’s Zune vs Apple’s iPod, Yahoo! heats up the Search Engine war, and do your bit for climate change with Green Thing. « thelump.net

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:11:57 +0000

[...] failed: the best search results, and the best search assistance. So, just like when I tested out Ask vs Google in week 5, the best way to see if it works is to battle it up against another search engine. So here is Yahoo [...]

By: #19: A new Radiohead album due next week, Facebook goes from zero to £5billion in under 3 years, and texting is good, but only when it goes to the right person. « thelump.net

Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:50:11 +0000

[...] the world’s biggest tech companies, and their attempts to corner the social networking world. As noted in Week 5, Myspace was valued at $12 billion earlier this year, as Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp was [...]

By: #10: 48 hours without Google [part 1], A review of the Transformers film, and the NHS explains what 120 calories look like. « thelump.net

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:45:21 +0000

[...] and that gives me the 2nd part of the challenge. Lets go back a few weeks. In week 5, I wrestled Ask.com up against Google’s strongest product; its search engine. Sadly for Ask, it slumped and sulked like a crying child in a [...]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:25:11 +0000

I’d prefer it to be a competition, so that one doesnt slip in standards, much like ask/google. There’s lots of people who are annoyed that Facebook has added these applications, somehow ‘myspacing’ themselves with videos and “top 8 friends”, so Myspace isn’t totally buried just yet.

By: noah

noah — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:28:14 +0000

I’d certainly like to see a Yahoo/Myspace entity. Mostly because I just like to things get shaken up. I had an interview this morning as one of the topics was the transition from a Myspace world to a Facebook one. Maybe this would reverse the looming Myspace slide.