Today’s search podcast covers Google agreeing to Chinese censorship demands;
a poll about searcher views on the privacy of searches; Yahoo says it’s happy
being number two to Google in market share but also says they want to be tops as
a search player; longer ads coming to Google?; Ask Jeeves gets its own image
search engine and more!
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- Google Now Censoring In China
- Search Data Request Has Searchers Pondering Their Next Query
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New Poll Finds Web Users Want Google to Keep Data Private; Full Text Access to
Report Also Available - Google Not Installing Third Party Cookies — It’s Firefox Prefetching
- New Firstgov.gov Search Database Goes Live
- Yahoo Does Want To Be The Leading Search Engine
- BusinessWeek on Yahoo and Social Search
- Yahoo: Not A Goal To Overtake Google In Search Market Share
- Latest NetRatings Stats Show Status Quo With Search Engines
- New and More Detailed Imagery Comes to Google Local and Google Earth
- Google Quietly Beta Testing Desktop AdWords Editor
- How to Handle Yahoo’s Shorter Ad Descriptions
- Oh
Yeah, Yahoo? Google Says (Maybe) We’ll Make Our Ads Larger -
Ask Jeeves Launches Their Own Image Database, New Refinement Features Also
Available -
When Carl Talked to Barry: Sources Say Time Warner Investor Carl Icahn Has Had
Conversations with IAC/InterActive (Ask Jeeves) CEO Barry Diller