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POPSYahoo turns to Google. Microsoft cries foul. Very interesting move by Yahoo! They may be able to significantly increasing their earnings by integrating Google's search ads on their own site. Talk about a potential blow to microsoft. To think that they're left crying foul about this being anti-competitive after all these years is beyond ironic.
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POPSGoogle still kicking Yahoo and Microsoft's ass! The part I actually find most surprising is that over 40% of the U.S. search market doesn't use Google. But considering how hard Microsoft and Yahoo are trying to catch them, it's amazing that they haven't been able to make any progress.
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POPSVery strong words about Google's decision to censor search results in China This is crazy. I'm sure that being a publicly traded company worth over $100bn played into this decision...and i can't necessarily say that they made the wrong decision...but i sure think it stinks. The only way to bring about change is have the balls to do it. Sure would have been cool to see Google say FU to China's demand.
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POPSAlexa to give away its index Just waking up so not exactly sure what i think of this other than it sure is innovative and interesting. Click here to read what Om thinks (he's not as bullish about it as John Battelle): http://gigaom.com/2005/12/12/amazons-alexa-commoditizes-search/
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POPSTagging the world wide web an overview of tagging. for those of you who aren't familiar with the concept of tagging, WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING LATELY??? just kidding of course...a good article to understand the what and why of tagging.
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POPSFrom John Battelle's editorial in today's Mercury News I recommend reading the entire editorial. Some interesting thoughts about all the data that search engines are/will gather about us as we use their services. A number of these points are further explored in John's book The Search. If you find this editorial interesting, i recommend that you read the book.
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POPSYahoo is kicking Google's tush? Found this through Chris Sherman's Search Engine Fourm Spotlight. Strong words i'd say! I do agree that Yahoo is often overlooked in favor of Google, but kicking Google's tush...not sure about that.
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POPSCould Diller out-fox the search engines? I'm looking forward to seeing how Ask finds new ways to approach search. Clearly, there are many things that could be done to make the user experience better. I wouldn't put it past Diller to figure out a way to become a serious player. The parallels to the days of CBS, NBC and ABC are interesting to say the least.
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POPSGoogle spam blog search Apparently Google's blog search results include a lot of spam blogs. 2 things to point out here. Google blog search needs work (haven't tried it yet as i'm happy with IceRocket and Feedster) and people who create spam blogs suck!
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POPSGAOL - really? all i can say is that the blog post i wrote the other day called "Google to buy the Pacific Ocean" (http://clipmarks.blogs.com/ericgoldstein/2005/09/google_to_buy_t.html) was pretty sarcastic, but i'm beginning to think it might be true.
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POPSA smart partnership i like this one. sometimes it seems that companies 'partner' just so they can say they do. this one seems smart to me.