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Search Overhaul for U.S. FirstGov Government Portal
FirstGov's new, sparse search page is just the tip of the iceberg for a number of powerful, useful new features unveiled by…
Patent Watch: Yahoo Awarded Patent, Microsoft Has Patent Application Published
Here’s info about a one patent recently awarded to Yahoo on determing similarity between documents along with recently published patent application by…
Google Has Plans to Open R&D Office in Israel
In June, we blogged that Google planned to open a business office in Israel. Today, news that Google is in the process…
Google Created EvilRank Scale To Decide On Chinese Censorship
Via Good Morning Silicon Valley, "Google CEO on censoring: ‘We did an evil scale’" from InfoWorld has Google CEO Eric Schmidt explaining…
Kanoodle Gets MSN Spaces Contextual Deal
Kanoodle has announced it will be providing contextual ads to the MSN Spaces service. What’s odd about this is that MSN has…
A Picture Says 1000 Words About Google’s Censorship In China
Plenty are writing and writing about Google’s agreement to censor results for China. But pictures perhaps better illustrate the differences that Google…
Google Toolbar Version 4 Now Available
Google has upgraded its toolbar for Internet Explorer, adding new search features, online bookmarks, custom buttons that can be configured for a…
Google Releases Upgraded Toolbar
Google has enhanced its toolbar for Internet Explorer, introducing several new features that will appeal to regular users of the program.
Google’s Help Center Page About Censorship Back Online With New Text
Last week I blogged that the Google Help Center page dealing with censorship was unavailable when I went looking for it after…
AOL’s “(Quick) Answer” Feature On Web Results Pages
Although we’ve blogged many times about search engines becoming answer engines for some types of queries with a variety of tools and…