Google Mac Blog:
Introducing Google Quick Search Box  —  When most people think of Google, search comes to mind - and rightly so!  Hundreds of millions of people have come to know and love Google.com as their starting point for searching the Internet.  About 2 years ago, we introduced Google Desktop …

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Schmidt: Bing Can’t Buy Search Love With Ads; Gotta Earn It  —  CEO Eric Schmidt has weighed in on the Bing launch — and he’s not sounding panicked, not that I would expect him to be.  But he certainly puts out a conflicted message that Bing isn’t a serious […]

Yukari Iwatani Kane / Digits:
Where’s Steve Jobs?  —  Apple fans got a new iPhone, but company CEO Steve Jobs, who is taking a medical leave of absence, was a no-show at Monday’s keynote presentation for the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference.  —  Getty Images  —  Steve Jobs jokes about his health during an Apple event […]

Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Billboard for WWDC is torn down; startup smells rotten Apple  —  The co-founders of a small startup suspect something more than a dark subway stairwell prompted a billboard to be pulled from a downtown San Francisco wall before the crowd attending Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference could see it Monday […]

Frederic J. Frommer / Associated Press:
Feds have frozen online poker winnings, group says  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — An advocacy group for online poker said Tuesday that the federal government has frozen more than $30 million in the accounts of payment processors that handle the winnings of thousands of online poker players.

David Sarno / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Caterina Fake’s Hunch.com, launching Monday, is already redefining ‘decision engine’  —  Microsoft’s megabucks advertising campaign for Bing.com couldn’t have come at a better time for Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake’s new consumer advice site, Hunch.com.  —  With much pomp and circumstance …

Reuters:
Google CEO says looking to buy smaller firms  —  * Google on the prowl for smaller firms to buy  —  Google Inc (GOOG.O) is looking to buy smaller technology companies to enhance its technology portfolio, Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in an interview with the Fox Business network on Tuesday.

David Kravets / Threat Level:
AP Reporter Reprimanded For Facebook Post; Union Protests  —  An Associated Press reporter’s official reprimand over an innocuous comment on his Facebook page has sparked the ire of union officials.  They are now demanding that AP clarify its ethics guidelines and are also urging reporters to watch who they add […]

David Kravets / Threat Level:
AP Reporter Reprimanded For Facebook Post; Union Protests  —  An Associated Press reporter’s official reprimand over an innocuous comment on his Facebook page has sparked the ire of union officials.  They are now demanding that AP clarify its ethics guidelines and are also urging reporters to watch who they add […]

Ashlee Vance / Bits:
Asustek Vows to Out-Apple Apple  —  Two years ago, Asustek wowed the world with the hottest selling computing product to arrive in recent memory: the Eee PC netbook.  But even that blockbuster device has failed to do much to boost the company’s brand in the United States, a situation the Taiwanese […]