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Microsoft will pay Viacom $500 million over five years to serve ads over the media conglomerate’s online network, according to reports. What does that mean? Nickelodeon clips on MSN, Laguna Hills downloads on your Xbox 360 console, and so on. Viacom’s old advertising service was DoubleClick. We’re guessing that relationship turned sour when Google — which faces a $1 billion copyright infringement suit from Viacom — announced its intent to purchase DoubleClick for $3.1 billion. (Photo by AP/Mark Lennihan)

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Facebook added a feature today which allows you to classify your friends. You know, one group is for the friends you like, another for the people you have to pretend to like. Some are calling the feature a LinkedIn killer, since you can now set apart work pals from personal connections. We’re not so sure. So far, you can’t set privacy settings for an entire group, or limit how often its members appear in your news feed. What’s the point?

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OK fine. So maybe there isn’t actually a tiny singing man in my iPod. But Google research director Peter Norvig confirms there is an army of contractors slaving away behind that page of ten blue links.

Norvig told Technology Review that one way Google tests its search accuracy is to “randomly select specific queries and hire people to say how good our results are. We train them on how to identify spam and other bad sites, and then we record their judgments and track against that.”

Sound like your kind of gig? Warning: You must be comfortable in cold weather. As in North Pole cold. Or was that some other secret workshop?

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