Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz suggested June 3 that a long-rumored search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo would save her company between $500 million and $700 million, mostly in staff reductions and data center cutbacks.

However, Bartz also used her podium at the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch U.S. Technology Conference in New York on June 3 to suggest that Yahoo remains a viable competitor in the search space, without any assistance from Microsoft.

Google Squared takes a category and creates a starter ’square’ of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web.

Google, already the king of Internet search, rolled out an experimental new search product on Wednesday called “Google Squared. Unlike Google’s traditional engine, Google Squared lumps results into cells and tables, (more…)