PC World: MSN Taking the Brunt of Google's US Search Blitz Dan Nystedt, IDG News Service Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:10 PM PDT Google continued to grab U.S. Internet search market share at a record pace in July, with Microsoft's...
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Luis von Ahn, the Carnegie-Mellon professor who invented the Captcha system that helps identify you as a human instead of a spamming computer, has rolled out a system that uses words from newspapers and books that the Internet Archive and...
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Here is the text of a letter Google sent to Congress, via theGoogle Public Policy Blog: August 8, 2008 The Honorable John Dingell Chairman House Energy and Commerce Committee 2125 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Joe...
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Cathy Davidson writes: I've been following the development of Knol and, well, I don't like it. Despite all Google's efforts to put its own media and content-provider right up there with Wikipedia when I do a Google search, I find...
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TechCrunch: All of a sudden, Yahoo and Google want to make it easy for you to opt out of their ad targeting on both their sites and across the Web. Yahoo announced a new one-click opt-out policy today, and Google...
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SFGate: ... Google invested $1 billion in AOL in 2005 to secure its advertising business and push aside competitors Microsoft and Yahoo. The 5 percent stake valued AOL at $20 billion. But Google's announcement in an SEC filing acknowledged what...
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Los Angeles Times: John Edwards-related curiosity reflected in Google Hot Trends 05:47 PM PT, Aug 8 2008 As of this posting, one measure of national interest in the story of the affair between John Edwards and Rielle Hunter is Google's...
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The other day I slammed "Google Trends" as being pretty dumb. Now Google has offered a much more sophisticated version of Trends. ZDNet.com reports: If you are someone who can’t get enough data, Google’s new “Insights for Search” (which I’m...
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InformationWeek Google Gets Raked Over The Coals At Black Hat Posted by Thomas Claburn, Aug 6, 2008 10:57 PM Robert "RSnake" Hansen, CEO of SecTheory, and Tom Stracener, senior security analyst at Cenzic, had some harsh words for Google at...
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Pew: Pew: Daily Search Usage Approaching Email Levels According to a new report from The Pew Internet & American Life Project, daily use of search engines is growing and starting to approach email usage levels. New research conducted by telephone...
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Los Angeles Times: Google offers free music legally in China Google's Music Onebox challenges Baidu.com, China's top search engine. By Michelle Quinn Los Angeles Times Staff Writer August 7, 2008 In China, Baidu is the powerhouse, the "it" girl, the...
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The Economic Times: Wipe off your home from Google's Street View to keep voyeurs at bay 7 Aug, 2008, 1553 hrs IST, AGENCIES MELBOURNE: People, who want to keep their homes away from the prying eyes of voyeurs on Google's...
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Chris Matyszczyk: So you create a search engine with a very basic all-text look. Then you make a fortune out of ads that look just like your search results. But then you buy YouTube. That's where the problems start. Because,...
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Caleb Tucker-Raymond at ⌘f writes of various librarian reactions to Cuil: ... One theme is, “if you think Cuil is neat, you should try SearchMe”. SearchMe may fill some of the same discovery and serendipity niche that Cuil is vying...
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chrisbrogan.com: Nick Saber isn’t happy now. Monday afternoon, after lunch, Nick came back from lunch to find out that he couldn’t get into his Gmail account. Further, he couldn’t get into anything that Google made (beside search) where his account...
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From Frank Pasquale: Dominant Intermediariesâ Future: Monopoly Responsibility August 2nd, 2008 · Posted by Frank Pasquale · No Comments After giving testimony at a Congressional hearing on Competition on the Internet, I began to wonderâhas anyone done an intellectual history...
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