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Reuters - Yahoo Inc and Google Inc have drastically scaled back the scope of their search advertising deal, a person close to the discussions said on Monday, in a last-ditch effort to win U.S. antitrust approval.

Well, here we are. Today is the day. Voters all over the country are making their way to the booths, each to put their own little nail in the coffin of this presidential race that has seemingly been going on for an eternity. This has been the most captivating race I have seen in my lifetime, and many say that this is one of the most important elections the U.S. has ever seen. read more

Google has been very involved with this election. They've released tools for voters to find out voting information. They've released a tool for volunteers to help recruit voters.read more

Until somewhat recently, Twitter's site seemed reluctant to stay in working order. The company still lacks an identifiable business plan. And the economy as a whole has been imitating the current president's approval rating. But an encouraging new email hints that at least one small job market might be all right, after all.read more

Google and Yahoo have offered to decrease the size of their proposed search advertising deal in an effort to receive approval from federal regulators.read more

Hewlett-Packard has an interesting new service that allows users to turn RSS feeds into deliverable, printable PDFs. The service is called Tablloid and works basically like other feed readers.read more

There is no denying that the internet has had a profound impact on this U.S. Presidential race. I have discussed this at length in a previous article. Google has contributed a lot to this, but they are by no means the only Internet entity that has played a role.read more

YouTube is encouraging voters today to take their video cameras with them and document the scene at their polling place. The video site has teamed up with PBS and is including these videos on a Google Maps mash-up.read more

Social search engine Delver has partnered with Yahoo! Search to use its Yahoo! BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service).Delver says its personalized search will now integrate traditional search results via BOSS along with results created and referenced by the searching user's friends and friends-of-friends.BOSS allows search sites to use Yahoo! search results in a customized way without any Yahoo! branding but still serves Yahoo! ads.read more

If the importance of this presidential election has you feeling anxious, fresh stats from Hitwise may not help much. Essentially, they act as a reminder that the world's watching, and UK residents in particular seem to be interested in a couple of political figures.There's been a high volume of searches for Barack Obama since (at least) late last year. Only on a few occasions have searches for the UK's own prime minister, Gordon Brown, become more common. Meanwhile, interest in Joe Biden has remained quite low even after his nomination.read more