A billion dollar plan backed by Google and healthcare investment firm OrbiMed Advisors will sequence the genes of 100,000 people in the biggest effort of its kind.

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Shareholders who view Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo as a welcome exit from two years of falling stock prices have filed seven lawsuits against the company over its reaction to the deal.

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Reports issued by Citigroup and Bear Stearns based on information from comScore about paid clicks noted the flat January suffered by Google, as well as a pleasant surprise for Yahoo.

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Matt Cutts says an internal discussion over how to treat the NOINDEX tag has the company debating the best way to handle pages using it.

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Search engine Ask.com added data feeds from analytics vendor Compete to expand the view of a website via the Ask Binoculars feature.

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Bots arriving from Google, Ask.com, and MSN to sample pages on the bookmarking site Delicious hit a robots.txt block. As do Yahoo’s Slurp bots too. It’s no big deal.

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New chairman Roy Bostock and other board members are trying to make Jerry Yang see the inevitability of a Microsoft takeover.

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With so many millions of web-capable phones owned by people, the possibility exists for mobile search advertising to eclipse conventional search ads.

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One YouTube upload later, a Baltimore cop received a suspension after a skater recorded the officer’s less-than-friendly interactions with a fellow skater.

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A concerned webmaster who installed the Google Toolbar found himself seeing a Google 404 page instead of his own in the browser.

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