Industry.
Google/Riya Acquisition Update
On Thursday, we posted about a rumor that Riya, an image search company that utilizes face/image recognition technology was about to be…
MSN Powers UK’s Times Online; Ask UK Scales Back Ads
Two brief items from the UK search scene today. + Revolution Magazine reports that MSN Search (MSN.co.uk) will power web search on…
Harvard’s Involvement in Google Library Project
Katie Hafner’s NY Times article: At Harvard, A Man, a Plan, and a Scanner offers a profile of Sidney Verba, Director of…
U.S. SEM Firm Innovation Interactive Acquired by Japan’s Livedoor
It’s SEM acquisition time! Clickz reports that Japan’s Livedoor has acquired Innovation Interactive, parent to 360i and SearchIgnite. Financial terms were not…
Google Rolls Back Commissions In Europe, Forward With Them In China
I wrote earlier about how Google was phasing out commissions in Europe — well, reducing them and giving them another name at…
Google Base Security Flaw Found
Google Closes Security Holes in Google Base from Netcraft covers an apparent security hole in Google base that may have exposed sensitive…
Google’s Portable Data Centers & Alternative Internet Speculation
Google-Mart from PBS’s Robert X. Cringely covers Google apparently having developed incredibly compact data centers that can fit into a shipping container,…
Google Separates Bids For Search & Contextual Ads
Separate bidding on content network introduced by AdWords from Jen over at JenSense looks at how Google is now allowing advertisers to…
Add To Google & Save To Yahoo My Web Buttons Out
Nick at Threadwatch discovers a new Add To Google button, while I’m also overdue to discuss the new Save To My Web…
Book Search Without the Fuss
With as much press as Google Print has received, it’s a comparatively lightweight service compared to other, more established book search services,…