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More Yahoo & Microsoft Search Patent Applications
If you are missing your Gary Price fix, I recommend you check out a post at ResourceShelf. He has his “Search Patent Watch” expanding on several patent applications…
Google, Microsoft Say No To US Congressional Briefing On Chinese Censorship
Google won’t talk to Congress about China from the San Francisco Chronicle covers Google declining an invitation to appear before the US…
Patent Watch: Yahoo Awarded Patent, Microsoft Has Patent Application Published
Here’s info about a one patent recently awarded to Yahoo on determing similarity between documents along with recently published patent application by…
Microsoft Sees the Future in IM
Microsoft enlisted Fallon to create a microsite to promote MSN Messenger 7.5. Dubbed ESPBilly, the site is billed as “An MSN Messenger…
Check out Cool Bird’s Eye Imagery from Windows Live Local on Bird’s Eye Tourist
You’ve likely seen sites that allow people to share cool places and things found using the satellite and aerial imagery from Google…
Judge Sets Hearing Date in Google Subpoena Case
Declan McCullagh’s: Court date set for Google lawsuit, says that U.S. District Judge James Ware has announced that a hearing regarding the…
Coming: MSN Spaces Upgrade, With PPC Ads
Post updated with new information. Rumors are flying that Microsoft will soon unveil a big revamp of MSN Spaces, and the changes…
Scoble: Search Champs Talk to MSN VP about Data Turned Over to Feds
Scoble reports from MSN Search Champs about a session where the those in attendance “grilled” MSN Vice President Christopher Payne about what…
Microsoft Mix 06 Looks At Mashups, Web 2.0
Microsoft’s Mix 06 event in March doesn’t have much on search now other than letting Amazon pitch its Alexa Web Search Platform,…
Music Mix from Windows Live Messenger: Share a Playlist and and then Simultaneously Listen to the Music it Contains
From my Friday, “it’s not directly search but cool” file. If you have access to the Windows Live Messenger (WLM) beta (I…
Windows Live Expo (aka Freemont) from Microsoft Now Has Info Site and Blog
In late November and then again in December, we posted (as did many others) a couple of items about Microsoft developing a…
Google’s Patent Application for Click-to-Call Advertising Published
A newly published patent application (first filed on June 30, 2004) shows that Google is looking to patent a method to provide…
How Does a Google eBook Store Sound?
So, what’s next Google service going to be? According to this BBC News story, it just might be an online bookstore for…
PC World Talks Web Mail Betas and Desktop Search
An article in the the January 2006 issue of PC World offers a brief look at web mail betas from Yahoo (I…
Patents, Google and Acquistions; What About Search Patents from Other Companies?
Loren over at Search Engine Journal points us to a post on SEO by the Sea by Bill Slawski that does an…
Time For Dinner: Email/Gmail Team Leaders from Google, MS, and Yahoo Break Bread With WSJ Writer
Inside Google points us to this interesting read about email services by Lee Gomes at the Wall Street Journal. The article is…
Sharing The Search Wealth At A9, MSN & The Drawbacks
In my post-Christmas mailbox was a message from A9 reminding me of its A9 Instant Rewards program that effectively pays me a…
New Microsoft Patent Apps Discusses the Building of Personalized Portals
About two weeks ago, Microsoft, had an interesting patent application published descibing a system that assists users in building personalized “portals” was…
MSN Updates Live.com Site With Changes/Improvements to “Search Experience”
Word from Redmond on the Live.com blog that Microsoft has made several “search related” changes (they call them improvements) to their Live.com…
Happy Holidays!
Barring a merger being announced between Yahoo and Microsoft, we’re gone, done, outta here for the holidays! And we hope you are,…
MSN Getting Cleaner Look In The Microsoft Three Portal Strategy
I want Microsoft to pick a portal brand and go with it. We’ve had MSN. Then this year, we got the new…
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…
Gates Keynoting CES – And So Are Semel & Page
Last year I talked about the idea of consumer search and how search engines that traditionally offered web search were making the…
Technorati Begins Cooking Up Ideas in their New “Kitchen”
Let’s see, Yahoo offers betas at Yahoo Next, Google at Google Labs, Microsoft in their Sandbox, and AOL on their Beta Central…
Search Execs Talk at MIT Forum
Via Searchblog, word of this just released podcast of a forum that took place at MIT about a week ago and featured…
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