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Google Buys Swiss Mapping Company
Adding to the Google Maps and Earth, Endoxon was acquired by Google today. The Swiss-based mapping company offers Google a base of operations in Europe to further their…
Microsoft Using Baidu PPC Ads. Does Google Know?
Okay this seems a little too like the end game of DodgeBall…. Microsoft agrees to serve Baidu paid listings in its Chinese…
Google Base Trolling for Podcasts
Steve Rubel at Micropersuasion posits that Google is building a stealth podcast search engine. Google appears to be prompting Google Base users…
Google damping enthusiam of bidders for Tribune
Leon Lazaroff of Bloomberg reports that competition from Google and other Internet companies is said to be hampering efforts to sell the…
Google Launches Patent Search
Google has launched a new search engine for finding U.S. patents going back more than 200 years, Google announced on its blog.…
Yahoo! Organic Rankings Update Confirmed
Yahoo! has been updating its organic search results database since Sunday night and states they will complete the process by the end…
Google Employees To Be Able To Auction Options
In a move to possibly retain and gain employees, Google has developed a method for its non-executive workers to auction their vested…
Why is “news” a stop word in Google News?
If you use Google News to search for the term, Google News, you are told “news” is a very common word and…
MySpace passes Yahoo in page views
Check out the post by Liz Gannes on GigoOM entitled, Report: MySpace Passes Yahoo in Page Views. According to comScore data mentioned…
Wordtracker holds contest to find the next Google Guru
A $6,000 contest from Wordtracker.com aims to give anyone the skills they need to become a Google Guru in just five days…
Google Copies Yahoo’s IE7 Marketing Page
Jeromy Zawodny has found that Google used the existing Yahoo IE7 promo page. Comparative pictures of the two promo pages supports his…
Search Results Getting Safer
McAfee’s SiteAdvisor monitors the changes in search results and measures the level of what they call “dangerous” sites in all the major…
US State Dept. Uses Google When CIA Says No
When the CIA denied the US State Department access to “the names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in…
November Search Trend Data Released by Compete.com
Compete.com, a new search popularity tool bar and measurement service, similar to Alexa, released their data for November 2006, indicating a bounce…
Search Arbitrage Gets Forbes Attention
Forbes did an article on search arbitrage Friday featuring interviews of Jeremy Shoemaker and Michael Gray. Shoemaker said he had made $2…
SES Chicago After Hours
Okay so we have all been to our share of panels… and I have one to do at 9 am tomorrow -yet…
Google Ordered By Another North Carolina Court To Remove Pages
Apparently, North Carolina is going to start a trend of people who get court orders to remove material Google has spidered when…
Optimizing Search for the Visually Impaired
Those of us with good eyesight often don’t give much thought to the challenges visually impaired users face in reading, much less…
A Superbowl Marriage Proposal?
Joe Morin thinks he’s got the next Million Dollar Home page mixed with romance going. To wit: someone named JP (to stay…
Goodbye Google Answers
Wow. Google is shutting down its Google Answers service. The company has announced that new questions won’t be accepted after the New…
Google Audio Ads Sign-Up Page Live
Google Audio Ads now appears to be opening to sign-ups, sort of. Googlaxy.com sent me a heads-up about three new URLS that…
Advertiser Details On Google Audio Ads
Donna Bogatin over at Digital Micro-Markets has posted what look to be PowerPoint slides designed to explain how Google Audio Ads will…
Live’s Erik Selberg On Microsoft’s Tough Search Challenge
Talk about the echo chamber coming full circle. The stats on Microsoft’s search share decline that I posted last week were commented…
Google: Not TV Network But TV Adjunct
Via Threadwatch, a transcript of a conversation between ABC reporter Alan Kohler and Richard Kimber, managing director of sales and operations for…
Q&A On Google’s Belgium News Agreements
This week, news emerged about an agreement between Google and two Belgian author groups that were suing it over copyright issues. Below,…
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