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MC Hammer launching a search engine

MC Hammer launching a search engine

You can't Google this. OK, maybe you can. But MC Hammer doesn't want you to. The venerable rapper, who helped usher hip-hop into the pop mainstream in the early '90s, has rolled out a search engine he hopes will outperform Google, Bing and other established tools.

Senh: It's interesting only because MC Hammer is involved. I doubt the site has any real potential, but if he focuses on entertainment, he might be able to carve out a niche. WireDoo is not the first search engine to show related topics to keyword searches: Bing already does it, and Ask did it before Bing. Still, when it launches, I'll check it out.

 

Carrey launches new website with video love letter

Jim Carrey is launching his new website with a bang. The 49-year-old actor posted a video love letter to "The Help" star Emma Stone on www.jimcarreytrulife.com Wednesday that many online deemed "creepy." The one-minute, 53-second video shows Carrey speaking into a handheld camera and sincerely professing his love for the 22-year-old actress.

 

The Daily Dot Is A Local Newspaper For The Social Web

Are social sites like Reddit, Tumblr and YouTube communities that are just as worthy of news coverage as local towns? If so what would a community newspaper covering these disparate and little-understood groups of people look like? A new news site, the Daily Dot, attempts to answer that question.

 

For $1,000, Site Lets Celebrities Say It Ain’t So

For $1,000, Site Lets Celebrities Say It Ain’t So

A new Web site called ICorrect allows people who are unhappy about how they are portrayed on the Internet to set the record straight for $1,000 a year.

Senh: Alright, let's take a break from covering Facebook, Google, and Apple. I think the idea is interesting, and iCorrect will get a lot of write-ups, but I don't think it'll succeed. If celebrities want to correct some falsehood from the internet, why don't they just do it on their Twitter account, Facebook page or their official website? They don't have to pay a site $1,000 with no traffic to do it.

 

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