Search Engines

ComScore’s June U.S. search data is out.

Once again, Yahoo and Microsoft gained share at Google’s expense because of contextual search tricks on the sites that turn users’ click-by-click browsing into extra search queries.

But even excluding those tricks, Google lost a tiny bit of share, while Yahoo and Microsoft both gained a tiny bit of a share.

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Walter Hawkins

Walter Hawkins, an ordained bishop and one of gospel music’s legendary figures, died July 11 at his home in Ripon, Calif. He had pancreatic cancer.

Bishop Hawkins, the younger of the Hawkins brothers — Edwin is the elder — was known as the musical director for his big, talented family.

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World Cup Final

When it comes to winning, artistic purity supposedly has no place.

Winning is more than everything, the only thing, not a matter of life and death, but something more important.

At least, that’s the collective verdict of Vince Lombardi and one of football’s most irascibleequivalents, Bill Shankly of bygone Liverpool days.

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Carrie Underwood

Bridal bliss!Carrie Underwood will wed her Ottawa Senators hockey beau Mike Fisher in a luxe ceremony this weekend.

The two will walk down the aisle Saturday, July 10, in Georgia.After about a year of dating, Fisher, 30, popped the question last December with a 12-carat ring worth about $800,000. “We’re both obviously excited and very happy,” Fisher said shortly after.

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Glenn Beck University

Class is in session! Glenn Beck University is open for business, and they’ve already got at least one student that is all but guaranteed to spend his entire tenure in front of the disciplinary board: Keith Olbermann. Olbermann e-attended the first lecture with Beck U Professor David Barton and, given that he thinks Barton is a “Christian nationalist pseudo-historian,” he took the lecture with a grain of salt.

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Johnny Depp

 It looks like we’re not the only ones who can go on and on about all the many reasons Johnny Depp is the perfect man.

“I could make an endless list of all the things I admire about him,” PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive’s longtime girlfriend Vanessa Paradis, in a rare interview, gushes in the August U.K. edition of Marie Claire. “But above all, I admire his immense loyalty … I admire him as an actor, as a father and as the man he is for me. But more than anything, I admire him as a person.”

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Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston and True Blood star Chris Gartin are not an item, a representative for the actress has claimed.

The pair had been seen enjoying an intimate dinner at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles last week where they shared a burger and a bottle of champagne, sparking rumours the couple were dating.

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LeBron James Miami Heat

They are beyond disappointed in New York, angry as hell in Cleveland and left out in the cold in Chicago and New Jersey. The NBA’s MVP of the last two years — and the most coveted free agent in the history of sports — LeBron James finally picked his team on Thursday. During a live, one-hour special on ESPN titled “The Decision,” King James told the world he would be signing with the Miami Heat. The Heat now have arguably the most formidable threesome of any lineup with James joining all-stars Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade.


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Cheryl Cole

Cheryl Cole has been transferred to a specialist hospital in London to get treatment for malaria before it gets too serious.

Cheryl Cole has been transferred to a specialist hospital to be treated for malaria.

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Germany Vs. Spain

Germany and Spain do battle on Wednesday for the right to meet theNetherlands in the World Cup final, in a semi widely expected to be one of the most exciting clashes of the tournament.

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