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Customize Your MSN Live.com Home Page with Widgets
We’ve posted a couple of items about the new Google Home Page API in the past few days but I’ve mentioned (my bad) that Microsoft has been allowing…
Tag It: Acquisition, Yahoo Acquires del.icio.us
Even developing their own MyWeb 2.0 (tag, save, share service) and the Yahoo 360 set of services, Yahoo still wants more assets…
New Patent Apps from Yahoo (Data Extraction) and Microsoft (Electronic Yellow Pages) Published
The USPTO published two patent applications yesterday. One from Yahoo and and the other from Microsoft that I think are worthy of…
A Flaw Could Cause Problems for Google Desktop Users Who Use Internet Explorer
Google Spokesperson, Sonya Boralv, has told News.com that Google has just learned about and is looking into a possible flaw with Internet…
New Rule of E-Mail, Socially Networked
This week Microsoft introduced SNARF, an organization tool that groups e-mail by social networking conventions based on information available on your computer…
Google Builds Anti-Microsoft War Chest, Expect Ads To Keep Booming & Yahoo The Stealth Search Warrior
Three business items I’m throwing into one post, Google explaining it has built up cash to fend of an unnamed big competitor,…
Is Everyone Afraid of Google?
The December issue of Wired, takes a look at Google’s many ventures (these days it’s a challenge to keep up but we…
Birth Of the Open Content Alliance, The “Un-Google” Project
A Man’s Visition: World Library Online isn’t about the US Library Of Congress & Google-backed World Digital Library program announced today but…
Coverage of of CNET Japan Search Conference
The CNET Japan Fall Innovation Conference is currently underway and Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal is doing his very best to…
The Google-Riya Rumor and Image/Face Recognition Searching
Ready for some material for your “Google is Going to Acquire” rumor list? Om Malik (a very trustworthy source) places the rumor…
Yahoo and MSN: New Patent Apps Published
Patent applications from Yahoo and MSN dealing with user annotations, trust networks, and domain specific database creation and searching were published today…
Yahoo No Longer Bidding for Piece of AOL
Reuters and the Wall Street Journal report that Yahoo is no longer interested in getting a piece of the AOL pie. After…
A Look at Some Patent Applications from Yahoo, Microsoft and Others
With so much attention being placed on each and every U.S. patent application that Google has published, I thought it would be…
Macmillan’s Book Digitisation Program: BookStore
Trying to keep all of the book digitization projects out there in some order is becoming a full time job. The Information…
MSN & British Library Partner On Book Search Project
We wrote earlier that MSN was getting into the book search game. Last Friday, another piece of the puzzle came out. MSN…
Major Ad Networks Working on Behavioral Targeting
We already have the ability to target ads in relatively sophisticated ways, with various types of matching schemes, as well as geotargeting,…
Microsoft Announces MSN Book Search; Joins Open Content Alliance
Microsoft, yes good old Gates, Ballmer and crew, are getting in on the online books digitization game and more. I can’t say…
Letting MSN Search Know About Trademark Concerns
I noticed a new page today on the MSN Web Search Help site titled, “Submit a Trademark Concern.” It offers a step-by-step…
Ballmer On How They “MSN You” in Holland, Korea & Google Was Curing Cancer
Gary wrote earlier of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently denying any chair throwing at a conference, but Good Morning Silicon Valley highlighted…
Microsoft’s Ballmer on Chair Throwing and Competing with Google
In comments made at the Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo and reported by News.com: Ballmer: Trusting Vista, battling Google, the Microsoft CEO made a few…
Google Ready to do Some Lobbying in D.C.
Zachary Rodgers offers some analysis of Google’s new Washington D.C. lobbying office in the article: The Search Engine’s Lobbyist. Some companies do…
The Top 100 Global Brands: Where Do Google and Yahoo Place?
BusinessWeek has released their ranking of the Top 100 global brands. What’s the criteria to be considered for the list: The table…
Now It’s Yahoo’s Turn to Make a Play for AOL
Surprised, nope. The way it’s going, kids will soon be asking their parents for AOL for the holidays. No, not the service…
In the Case of Google’s Dr. Kai-Fu Lee: California Judge Sides (For Now) with Microsoft
The Associated Press, Reuters, and other sources report from that a California judge has sided with Microsoft and issued a, “tentative court…
Search Forums Roundup: Oct. 14, 2005
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…
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