The International Herald Tribune article: The End User: Sounding new notes, offers a brief but interesting profile of a music information database that you've likely tapped when you enter a CD into a CD player or download a track. The database...
The News.com story: How to evade Google search, reports that once again a company, in this case Dell, has learned the hard way that what's put on a public web server is open to crawling, caching, and discovery. Specifications for future Dell...
The Congressional Human Rights Caucus held a briefing (not a formal hearing) on Wednesday about human rights issues and the Internet in China. The News.com article: Politicos attack tech firms over China, provides a look at what was said at the...
ZoomInfo, a vertical that mines open web content for information about people (and a service we've written about many times) recently received a patent from the U.S. Patent Office. Look for an official announcement next week. Patent Info:...
Danny blogged yesterday that Google and Microsoft were not going to send representatives to appear at a US Congressional Human Rights Caucus briefing taking place today in D.C. where human rights and the Internet in China will be discussed....
For many people tuning into the Super Bowl (aka "the Big Game") is not about watching a football game, American football that is, but rather viewing the commercials. Every year several sites make those commercials available online and this year...
DMNews.com reports that travel engine Sidestep has opened a "travel store" on Amazon.com. The story also says that SideStep has entered the UK and Ireland travel marketplace. You can find the UK/Ireland interface via the "country selection"...
InfoWorld reports that Google has had conversations with Motorola and Sony about their products could best be used with municipal Wi-Fi networks. Google currently operates a Wi-Fi network in their home town of Mountain View, CA and is also in the...
The News.com article: Google calls upon VoIP, reports that Google has signed a deal with VoiceOne to provide VoIP services for Google's click-to-call advertising service. Actually, VoiceOne and their parent company, VoIP Inc. have been working...
Back in October we pointed out that Google was opening a lobbying office in D.C. Today, Matt Marshall in Silicon Beat points to an article in the Wall Street Journal (subscribers only) about Google and other tech company lobbying efforts in D.C....
The Searchblog post, "Google Going P2P?" points out what might be about a possible clue into what Google's plans in P2P arena. The post mentions that Sharelive was a file sharing service that shutdown in 2005 and documents some other clues. Of...
Google has released their Q4 2005 earnings as covered in this news release. From the news release: "We are very pleased with our results for the fourth quarter as we achieved excellent performance across our businesses," said Eric Schmidt,...
FirstGov's new, sparse search page is just the tip of the iceberg for a number of powerful, useful new features unveiled by the U.S. government information portal.
Here's info about a one patent recently awarded to Yahoo on determing similarity between documents along with recently published patent application by Microsoft dealing with browsing info on the mobile web. U.S. Patent Awarded to Yahoo Title:...
I'm constantly sending reminders to myself and others via SMS (text messaging). In today's SearchDay overview of the new Google Toolbar 4 for IE (beta), Chris points out that a new feature built into the toolbar allows the user to send web...
In June, we blogged that Google planned to open a business office in Israel. Today, news that Google is in the process of also opening an R&D center there. A story in The Marker Online (an Israeli business newspapers) says that's what Sergey...
The Dow Jones story: Search Sites Better At Getting Shoppers To Buy: Study, reports on new research from WebSideStory that shows search engines (both paid and organic listings) provide more than twice the conversion rates than other forms of...
On Friday, I posted about a new blog where users share interesting locations and things people have found while the MSN's Live Local Bird's Eye imagery. I'm still awaiting an answer from MSN about any new cities and/or regions that have been...
Last week I blogged that the Google Help Center page dealing with censorship was unavailable when I went looking for it after reading this post on Google Blogoscoped. Then, GB picked up on my post with additional info and commentary. As of...
Although we've blogged many times about search engines becoming answer engines for some types of queries with a variety of tools and services including Google "Q&A", MSN "Instant Answers", Ask Jeeves "Smart Answers", and Yahoo Wikipedia...
