Briefs

CNET, Tom Krazit, Aug 12

Following a Wednesday morning session on the SEO implications of duplicate content at Search Engine Strategies 2009, technical and marketing attendees crowded three deep around Google's Greg Grothaus and Microsoft's Sasi Parthasarathy, peppering them with questions about the best way to construct their Web sites. A smaller group, unable to get directly to Grothaus, clustered around the search expert seated directly to his left, Yahoo's Ivan Davtchev.

It must be a tough time to be a Yahoo search engineer. Following the company's decision two weeks ago to shutter its search business in a deal with Microsoft's Bing, Yahoo has gone from a respected--if smaller--player in the business of constructing search engines, to an awkward participant in conferences such as these, where Bing representatives like Parthasarathy answer audience questions about the future of Yahoo search technologies.

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