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Library of Congress Announces World Digital Library Project; Google Donates $3 Million To Effort
Google’s involved in another digital library program, this time one being backed by the US Library of Congress. The World Digital Library aims to…
World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed By Library Of Congress & Google
The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library today, a project that's also just received its first…
Updates and Improvements Made to U.S. Government’s Science.gov Search Site; IRS Web Site Redesigns for Better Site Search
Government Computing News has two stories today about two U.S. Governmet organizations making improvements to their search offerings. First, Science.gov goes 3.0, reports that…
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 acquired by…
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 the Times…
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 the University…
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 disclosed. Innovation’s…
WebmasterWorld Bans Spiders From Crawling
Wow. Brett Tabke drops the nuclear bomb of banning all spiders from WebmasterWorld. He explains here that heavy rogue spidering is the reason behind…
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 least. Google…
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 information stored…
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, suitable for…
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 finally bid…
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 button that…
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, that let…
A (Non-controversial) Alternative to Google Print
Google Print has stirred up a hornet's nest of controversy, but another company has been offering online book search capabilities, with the blessings of…
Getting Add To & Subscribe Buttons For Feeds
A look at how to get and add buttons to help people subscribe to your web feeds.
Search Overtaking Email as Most Popular Online Activity
New research from Pew Internet & American Life tracking surveys and consumer behavior trends from the comScore Media Metrix consumer panel show that about…
Feedster Beta Tests “FeedRank” Sort and WordPress Only Search
I noticed a change on one of Feedster’s UIs today (the one at FeedSter.net to be specific) that allows a searcher to choose to…
Report from Google Print Debate at New York Public Library
The NY Times article: Googling Literature: The Debate Goes Public, reports on the Google Print/Book Search debate that Chris blogged about last week. My…
Google Temporarily Halts New Users from Registering for Analytics Service
Over on the ZDNet.com Blogs, Garrett Rogers reports in the article: Google Analytics stops at 234,725 accounts, that Google is temporarily limiting the number…