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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,…