Today's search podcast covers Google funding a US Library of Congress-backed World Digital Library project to digitize important works from around the world, the rival and preexisting Open Content Alliance backed by Yahoo, MSN and the Internet Archive that aims to do much the same thing; Google's strength in growing cheap and plentiful data centers and bandwidth but growth hindrances in the form of security issues and not meeting demand, Yahoo gaining a key AltaVista scientist Andrei Broder; Froogle gaining a way to search for products in local bricks-and-mortar stores, new Add To Google & Save To Yahoo My Web Buttons for site owners and much more!
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- Library of
Congress Announces World Digital Library Project; Google Donates $3 Million To
Effort
- Birth Of
the Open Content Alliance, The "Un-Google" Project
- Harvard's
Involvement in Google Library Project
-
Report from Google Print Debate at New York Public Library
- Book Search
Without the Fuss
- Google/Riya
Acquisition Update
- Google's
Portable Data Centers & Alternative Internet Speculation
- Google
Temporarily Halts New Users from Registering for Analytics Service
- Google Base
Security Flaw Found
- Google Mini
Security Issue Patched
- Andrei
Broder Joins Yahoo
- Search
Overtaking Email as Most Popular Online Activity
- U.S. SEM
Firm Innovation Interactive Acquired by Japan's Livedoor
- Google
Rolls Back Commissions In Europe, Forward With Them In China
- Google
Separates Bids For Search & Contextual Ads
- Google Adds
Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up to AdSense
-
WebmasterWorld Bans Spiders From Crawling
- Boser On
Reciprocal Links & Whether Inbound Links Can Harm
- Coverage of
of CNET Japan Search Conference
- Add To
Google & Save To Yahoo My Web Buttons Out
- Feedster
Beta Tests "FeedRank" Sort and WordPress Only Search
- Updates and
Improvements Made to U.S. Government's Science.gov Search Site; IRS Web Site
Redesigns for Better Site Search
- Google
Testing Collapsible OneBox Display
- Froogle Offers Local Shopping Feature
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