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Rupert Murdoch on Web Search, No Assault on Google or Yahoo in the Works
A brief article on News.com.au titled: News Corp won’t take on Google, reports that Mr. Murdoch and crew does not plan to…
Report: Lycos May Have Laid Off Most Its Search Team Go
Battelle over at Searchblog reports that two sources have told him that Lycos may have let most of its search team go…
PayPal Chief Doesn’t Believes Google’s Statements About Online Payment System
Mylene Mangalindan’s article in the Wall Street Journal (free to all): PayPal Prepares For a Challenge From Google takes a look at…
Which Search Engines Log IP Addresses & Cookies — And Why Care?
Last week I wrote how John Battelle followed up with Google to find out if they can link search data to IP…
Ask Jeeves Opens European R&D Center; Several Interesting Live Demos and Papers by AJ R&D Center Leader Also Available
We’ve been posting about several new R&D centers from Yahoo and Google in the past few week’s and today we’ve learned that…
Searching Television News
A new free service from multimedia search engine TVEyes lets you search each and every word spoken during TV news broadcasts from…
Google and Others Invest in Wireless Servies Company
Om Malik reports that Google, Skype, and others have invested in FON, a wireless services startup. FON describes itself this way: FON…
Classified Search Special Interest Group Discussion
The San Francisco area search special interest group is sponsoring a panel discussion called “Classified Search: All Your Ads Belong To Us,”…
The Ethics and Politics of Search Engines
A panel discussion, “The Ethics and Politics of Search Engines,” is coming up on Monday, Feb. 27, from 5:30-7 p.m. at the…
Google Has Right to Log the Text of Messages Sent Using their Send to SMS Feature
Nathan over at InsideGoogle mentions a post by Devin Reams who points to a portion of the Google Firefox Send to Phone…