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Lexar Flash Drives To Come Pre-Loaded with Google Software
Here’s an interesting deal that once again illustrates Google’s push to get their software apps used by more people. Lexar, the well-known maker of…
Governments Ask Google to Turn a Blind Eye
Some of those incredibly detailed aerial images available using Google Earch are making some governments nervous. In Governments Tremble at Google’s Bird’s-Eye View, the…
Don’t Overlook Human Edited Directories
Using a search engine to find information on the web is virtually reflexive for most of us these days. We tend to forget that…
With One Link, Google Book Search Becomes Google’s 5th Most Popular Service
Google Print Is Google’s Ninth Most Popular Service here on the blog last month covered how according to Hitwise, Google Print — since renamed…
More On AOL Pushing Google Into Graphic Ads & AOL Promotion
AOL Coaxes Google to Try Busier Ads from the New York Times dives deeper into details that emerged earlier this week about how Google…
Yahoo Launches Open Shortcuts, Allows Creation Of Custom Search Commands
The new Yahoo Open Shortcuts service lets anyone create their own custom search commands for use on Yahoo. Want to navigate to a particular…
A Pair of Web Pathfinding Gems
Though we rely heavily on search engines these days, sometimes a good 'old fashioned' human edited directory is a better choice for helping us…
Google AdSense For Domains Program Overdue For Reform — And Yahoo & Microsoft Should Also Take Note
A program from Google that puts paid links on parked domains need changes to benefit surfers and advertisers -- and Yahoo needs to consider…
Japan’s Government Forms Study Group To Determine if Country Should Launch Its Own Search Engine
Both the AP and Agence France Press report that Japan’s government is asking both the business and education/research sectors if the country should develop…
First Issue Of Google’s Newsletter For Librarians Released; Cutts Writes On Inverted Index & Ranking
In October, Danny blogged about Google’s “coming soon” quarterly newsletter for librarians. Today, the first issue went live. It’s available here. I’ve posted a…
Google One of Five Finalists for San Franscisco Citywide Wi-Fi Project
Om Malik posts over on Gigaom that Google has been shortlisted as one of the five finalists for the free San Fransciso Wi-Fi service…
DMA’s $5 Do-Not-Mail List
This has enraged me for years: the DMA charges consumers $5.00 to register online for its little-publicized do-not-snail-mail list (MPS). Mailing your regrets to…
Time Warner Investor Works to “Derail” Rumored Google/AOL Deal
Legendary investor, the 24th richest man in America, and a major holder of Time Warner stock, Carl Icahn, is not happy with the rumored…
Ask Jeeves Plans to Grow Personnel Ranks in 2006
Jonathan Berr, reports in The Street.com story: Diller Asks Jeeves to Grow, that AJ management has been charged by IAC/InterActive CEO, Barry Diller, to…
TRUSTe Trusts Yesmail
TRUSTe just named e-mail service provider Yesmail as the first company authorized to resell TRUSTe’s Web privacy seals. Yesmail can now review and certify…
Specialty Databases (Verticals) The Focus Of A Wall Street Journal Article
A few weekends ago Wall Street Journal reporter, Kevin Delaney, gave me a call asking for a few ideas, thoughts, and suggestions about useful…
Blinkx.tv Ends a Busy Year with a New Feature and Some New Content
It’s been a very busy year for multimedia search engine, Blinkx/Blinkx.tv in 2005 and company is ending the year with a new service and…
News Aggregator Topix.net Keeps on Rockin’
Topix.net continues to evolve as a fantastic site for news and blog content, now offering more than 360,000 unique topics and categories. Gary offers…
Firefox Brands RSS – It’s Official
The next version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer will adopt Firefox’s little orange RSS feed icon. That, effectively, is what will visually brand RSS feeds…
A Gangbuster Year for News Aggregator Topix.net
Topix.net has solidified its reputation as a key player in news search and aggregation over the past year, with major developments in both its…