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Aside from the major search engines, which include Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, there are a number of minor companies competing for users' attention. Some claim they are not search engines, probably because they do not want to seem small compared to Google. Very few Web surfers use Ask.com, Answer.com and About.com. Search company GoshMe claims that there are half a million search-engine products. That figure seems high, but it is impossible to disprove. (See pictures of Google Earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will the World Do with More Search Engines? | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

...There are going to be changes to the boards of every major financial-services firm," says Clarke Murphy, co-head of the board-services practice at executive-search firm Russell Reynolds. "As many as half of their independent members [i.e., directors who are not officers of the bank] may change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Wanted: Bank Boards Seeking Competent Directors | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

Traditionally, banking experience was never a major criterion for becoming a board member at the nation's largest financial-services firms. Banks and other financial-services firms have long filled their boards with nonfinancial executives, be they industrial chiefs, heads of nonprofits or professors. That's been changing in recent years, especially with the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley, which sought to strengthen corporate boards. But apparently the changes have not gone far enough. (See pictures of the stock market crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help Wanted: Bank Boards Seeking Competent Directors | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

Cosby, who had completed roughly three semesters’ worth of work, officially withdrew in April, school officials said yesterday. Although he had not declared his major, Cosby said that her son had shared his post-college plans of “going into computers and looking forward to a nice, comfortable life...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Friends, Neighbors Remember Cosby’s 'Strong' Presence | 5/20/2009 | See Source »

...Returned to active duty in the Marines in 1994, and eventually became deputy commander of U.S forces in Japan. Retired in 2003 as a major general...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Charles Bolden: The Next Boss at NASA? | 5/19/2009 | See Source »

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