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Searching for Music on Satellite Radio
Gary Price has an excellent post named Searching for Music on Satellite Radio OR What’s the Name of that Tune? In that post he…
Google To Be Dumped On Valentine’s Day Over China
The Sydney Morning Herald reports on another protest site named No Luv 4 Google where they ask you to “Break up with Google this…
Yahoo Asks for Help in Chinese Censorship Battle
Forbes reports in Yahoo! seeks help to fight China censors that according to an Financial Times article, Yahoo has asked for “broad co-operation among…
Google Officially Confirms Traffic-Power Ban From Index
Google’s Matt Cutts has provided official confirmation of a ban on the Traffic-Power domain name and some Traffic-Power client sites. Matt writes about how…
More Evidence of Google Music Download Service
To keep Gary’s documentation of his past entry named Predictions and More Speculation on a Google Music Service going, I have found an FT.com…
Specialized Search Tools for Academic Content
When you’re looking for magazine or journal articles, search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better bet—particularly in…
Gracenote: A Ubiquitous Music Database
Any time you play an audio CD and your computer's music player automatically looks up information about the album, it's likely you've just used…
Google Shares to Drop an Additional Fifty-Percent
ABC News reports that Barron’s said we can see an additional 50% decline in Google’s stock value. As I write this, GOOG is down…
Ask to Drop Jeeves by End of February
Reports via BBC News UK yesterday that Ask Jeeves will be dropping the butler by “the end of February.” Of course we knew this…
Time Interviews Google’s Brin, Page and Schmidt
Time Magazine features Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt and Larry Page of Google on the February 20, 2006 edition. The cover story is named In…
SEMPO Nominees for 2006 Board of Directors
13 Directors will be voted into office with the voting period ending February 17th. Voting by Member’s Only. Members can access the profiles of…
Gone Fishin’ (Well, Skiing)
I’m officially on vacation, headed to Vermont for a skiing trip with the family. I’ll be off the web until Feb. 20. This is…
NBC Scores Graphical Ads/Promos On Google
So much for no flashy ads in Google search results. NBC Olympics Partners With Google, ESPN from MediaPost covers how NBC effectively has an…
Gmail for Domains Beta
Yesterday I reported forum buzz rumors at the Search Engine Roundtable that GMail for domains is coming soon. Today official word came from the…
Yahoo Adds Features to My Web 2.0
Yahoo has enhanced My Web with a number of new features including easier access to your saved searches from the My Web 2.0 homepage,…
FareCompare Adds Flight Costs to Google Maps
Every want to just go fly somewhere but didn’t care where it was, as long as it wasn’t too expensive? SYS-CON Media reports that…
New Yorker Forums a Den of Spam
This is strange. The New Yorker’s official forums contain about two spam posts for every legitimate one. The folks at CondeNet should be more…
AdWords Enables Backup Credit Cards
Google AdWords adds the ability for advertisers to add a backup credit card to the My Account section of AdWords center. If you ever…
Google Groups Adds User Profiles and Ratings
Philipp Lenssen discovers that Google Groups Adds Rating, Author Profiles. If you navigate your way to Google Groups and view any thread or post.…
Yahoo Releases Firefox Toolbar 1.1
Gary Price back in July 05 covered the release of Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox 1.0 and yesterday Yahoo! Search blog reports that 1.1 is…