Daily SearchCast, Jan. 19, 2006: Google Fights US Government Request For Data; Google Earth Gets Ads; People Search For A9, Google And Yahoo Earn High Satisfaction Marks & More!

Today’s search podcast covers the US Department Of Justice fighting
Google for search data that AOL, MSN and Yahoo released; seeing dates on cached
pages; Google ads show up in Google Earth; A9 gets people search; Yahoo gets its
toolbar in WordPerfect; Google & Yahoo win in customer satisfaction survey and more!

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  • Bush
    Administration Demands Search Data; Google Says No; AOL, MSN & Yahoo Said Yes
     
  • Ask Jeeves Includes the Date and Time Pages Were Last Cached
     
  • Still Seeing "Blue Pins" on Some Google Maps; Google Now Testing Paid Links in
    Google Earth
     
  • WSJ: More Reality TV Type Programming Might Be Coming to Yahoo
     

  • Buzzmetrics and Intelliseek Join Forces and then Merge with Nielsen
     

  • Open Federation Comes to Google Talk
     

  • A9
    Selects ZoomInfo to Power People Search
     
  • Yahoo Toolbar Embedded into New Version of WordPerfect
     

  • Loomia Offers Podcast/Vidcast Search, Personalized Recommendation Service Now
    Available for Site Developers
     

  • WSJ Profiles Digg News Technology Site
     

  • Report: Chinese Searchers Prefer Google Over Homegrown Baidu
     

  • Keynote Says Google, Yahoo Preferred in North America
     
  • Results from MSN Search Added to Jux2 Tool Metasearch and Results Comparison
    Tool

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