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Tech industry sharply criticizes German online copyright bill

As German government officials prepared to meet to discuss a controversial online copyright bill on Wednesday, Yahoo, Facebook and German online startups slammed the proposal that would allow publishers to charge search engines such as Google for reproducing short snippets from news articles.
Wikia turns a small profit on advertising

Wikia, the for-profit company built on user-contributed content, turned a small profit last quarter for the first time, said co-founder Jimmy Wales on Tuesday.
Wikia Search bites the dust, fails as a Google alternative

Wikia Search, Jimmy Wales' long-shot attempt at disrupting Google's search-engine dominance, is closing on Tuesday.
Google may let users comment on, rearrange search results

Google is considering allowing users of its search engine to tinker with query results by re-ranking them and commenting on them.

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