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Google Introduces Marked Up Version Of Privacy Policy Changes
Google Brilliantly Updates Privacy Policy from Nathan at InsideGoogle notes that for Google Talk’s privacy policy, you can now view a previous version where changes are highlighted. Nice.…
Google Testing Software Distribution With Dell, Plus Details On IE7 Search Battle
We covered last month that Google was providing personal home pages for Dell. Dell testing preinstalled Google software package from Reuters now…
Super Bowl Search Marketing Scorecard
While much attention was focused on the television ads aired during the super bowl, the real winners were those firms who combined…
Udi Manber Leaves A9 to Join Google
Searchblog reports that Udi Manber, formerly the person in charge at A9 (Amazon.com’s search site) is heading to the Googleplex where he’ll…
Tracking the Technology News Trackers
“Meme” trackers like Memorandum and Topix.net show you what’s currently hot in both mainstream news and in the blogosphere. They’re great services…
Daily SearchCast, Feb. 7, 2006: BMW Banned By Google Over Spamming; Google Sitemaps Rolls Out Robots.txt Checker And Other Tools; Memeorandum’s Awesome For Blog Scanning & More!
Today’s search podcast covers BMW being banned by Google for spamming; cool new tools from Google Sitemaps; scanning the blogosphere with Memeorandum and…
President of University of Michigan Talks Google Book Search
Via Searchblog, I read the excerpts from a speech by the President of the University of Michigan, Mary Sue Coleman, about Google…
Google: Chat a Natural Fit with Email
In its ever expanding push into communications, Google has added chat to Gmail, tightly integrating the new feature with the archiving and…
Google Integrates Chat with Gmail
Continuing its push into communications products and services, Google has incorporated a chat client into Gmail, blending the best features of both…
Google Launches Robots.txt File Checker; Now We Need Robots.txt Standardization
Google now provides a way to check on that through the Google Sitemaps program. A real life example of how nice this…
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…
Google and Fiat Partner to Offer Google Earth Game
How about creating a Google Earth game that’s also a marketing tool? Sounds like a smart idea to me and it’s precisely…
Daily SearchCast, Feb. 3, 2006: Hunting For DOJ Search Data Plans; TrueLocals Face Off; A9 Usage; Tech Buzz Game Through Search; Google Dating Gossip & More!
Today’s search podcast covers trying to get more information about the US Department Of Justice’s plans for search data; the two TrueLocals collide;…
Search Forums Roundup: Feb. 3, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…
A9’s Low Popularity & Slower Growth
NetRatings sent out some Amazon stats in advance of their earnings report. Interesting to me was a breakout on A9. It shows…
How The US Department of Justice May Analyze Search Data & Freedom Of Information Act Request For Disclosure
So what did the Department Of Justice ask for exactly from AOL, MSN, and Yahoo? What did they get, exactly? What negotiations…
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