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A Q&A With Tim Bray
Danny’s post about Tim Bray’s cherry tomato test served as a reminder to me that we’ve never linked to an interesting interview…
The German Greens Don’t Like Google, Either
In Should Google Fear France?, we recapped how Google’s not exactly the favored child in France for a variety of reasons. German…
Google Images Wins Cherry Tomato Challenge For Attribute Indexing
Tim Bray tests whether Google, Yahoo and MSN image search services can find images that make use of keywords only within the…
Yahoo Has Google’s Mojo: Round Two
Second sight from The Guardian has gotten a lot of comment I’ve seen for being the second piece in as many weeks…
MSN Chooses WhitePages For Phone Listings
MSN Replaces InfoSpace With WhitePages.com covers MSN dropping InfoSpace as its white pages provider in the US and shifting instead to WhitePages.com.…
Google Ranking Itself Tops For Britney Spears & The Need For Better Categorization
Spotted via InsideGoogle, Stephan Spencer argues in Does Google deserve a top 10 spot for britney spears? that Google is borderline spamming…
Better Search Privacy Needs Addressing Overall
What Search Sites Know About You from Wired looks at the issue of search privacy. As usual, Google gets to be the…
Google News Undertakes Consumer Ad Campaign In Japan
Nice catch spotted via SearchViews, news that Google will undertake its first significant consumer marketing campaign to promote Google News in Japan.…
Spain Says Hola to Ask Jeeves
Word that Ask Jeeves has just released a beta version of their new search service for Spain at: https://es.ask.com. The engine provides…
Google Debuts Satellite Images
Google has added high-resolution satellite images to its Maps and Local search services, offering a birdseye view of millions of locations throughout…