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Perfect10 Goes After Google, Amazon
Perfect10, an adult entertainment company filed lawsuits against both Google and Amazon for copyright infringement. The two lawsuits, filed separately claim the two companies' utilizations of photos from Perfect 10 when listing the sight is a violation of copyright laws regarding pictures they own.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-29
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Google: Microsoft Doesn’t Own Search
The war of words has gone into full effect as Google begins their "vigorous" defense against Microsoft's legal actions over the defection of Dr. Kai-fu Lee. According to Google's team, Microsoft is just saber rattling, intimidating its employees as it claims ownership of all things search.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-28
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Yahoo! Releases FireFox Toolbar
Yahoo! announced yesterday the release of Yahoo! Toolbar 1.0 for Mozilla Firefox, a toolbar "polished to a high gloss" for use on Windows, MacOS X, and Linux. Jon Granrose, Yahoo! Toolbar Product Manager and Firefox instigator, dropped the news on Yahoo!'s Search Blog.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-28
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Yahoo Lassos Old IBM R&D Man
Sunnyvale based Yahoo Inc. announced on Thursday the hiring of Prabhakar Raghavan, a former IBM researcher, to develop certain areas for Yahoo including search and information navigation, social media, community, personalization and mobility.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-28
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Yahoo Soars With Boeing
Yahoo said on Wednesday they formed a search distribution partnership with Connexion by Boeing. This deal will be great for both companies as they both strive to offer stronger services to their customers.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-28
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Ask Jeeves PPC Service Rumor Mill
There is a great deal of hubbub brewing about Ask Jeeves possibly leaving Google and their AdWords program in order to develop and provide their own PPC advertising service, which is seen as a potentially risky move.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-27
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AOL Mobilizes Search For Cell Phones
America Online (AOL) announced a new mobile search service for mobile phones on Wednesday. The news release said the AOL division of Time Warner is testing a new suite of services that give users access to Search, Pinpoint Shopping and AOL Yellow Pages.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-27
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Lee Begins Google Job On Schedule
A flurry of reports have Google's newest executive, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, the center of a non-compete lawsuit controversy, beginning his duties on schedule in Beijing despite squawking from Microsoft's camp. The hotly contested president of Google China had a busy day Monday, working to get the research center off the ground.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-27
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Google Updates Personalized Homepage, Now With RSS
Google has added new content to its personalized homepage at google.com/ig, but most people will be excited to hear that it is now an RSS reader. Just click add content to try the nifty slide-out side panel which allows you to choose from dozens of sources and type in RSS feeds.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-26
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Search For Discovery: Online Coverage Of Shuttle Launch
NASA tried something new for media coverage with the launch of the Discovery. They set up online coverage through Yahoo and AOL. While normal television broadcast and cable networks will cover the launch, these two companies give you something new to search for. Both companies scored big points with this coverage and having watched both, both were sharp.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-26
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Search Quite Popular Among US Hispanics
Since I've been covering the search industry, I've come across quite a few people who are passionate about the industry and using it to your advantage. However, there's one topic discussion where you can find one of SEM's most passionate voices: the subject is Hispanic search marketing and the supporter is Nacho Hernandez.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-26
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Yahoo Acquires Konfabulator
"MacCentral - Yahoo! Inc. on Monday will announce the acquisition of Konfabulator, a Macintosh and Windows application that allows users to run mini files known as Widgets on their desktop - the same model used by Apple for its Dashboard application.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-25
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MSN Search Initiates Update
This past weekend, MSN Search underwent an update of sorts, and after taking a glance around at the forum chatter, it seems some aren't too excited about the direction of MSN Search following the results of their latest update.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-25
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Did MSN Virtual Earth Lose Apple's HQ?
This weekend, Microsoft unveiled their online mapping service, Virtual Earth. This particular map service gives users a number of options when it comes to online map usability. However, it seems the developers of MSN's latest project may have erred and not necessarily on the side of caution.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-25
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Google Breaks Records In 2Q
Google, Inc., controlling 47% of all search queries to the tune of over 6 billion searches during the second quarter of 2005, also announced quadrupled returns. The world's top search engine reported record revenue of $1.384 billion.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-22
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Google Slaps Countersuit On Microsoft
The war of the big corporations is on. Google levied its own lawyers against Microsoft in a countersuit charging the Redmond software giant with unfair trade practices after Microsoft filed a suit earlier in the week against Google And Kai Fu Lee for violating his no-compete contract he had signed when he became an executive at Microsoft.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-22
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Yahoo Launches Firefox Toolbar
As pointed out by many, the competition in the search industry leads to a great deal of emulation. When one company releases a product, a complimentary product from the competition is usually soon to follow.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-22
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301 Redirects Aren't Always The Answer
One of the more popular questions asked on SEO-related forums as do with the use of 301 redirects and duplicate content. When people pose questions about duplicate content because of domain naming reasons, one of the first things suggested is using a 301 redirect to avoid being penalized.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-22
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IceRocket to Become BlogScour
Looks like billionaire Mark Cuban and the folks at IceRocket have been paying attention to the Technorati debacle. They're exchanging one odd name for another…IceRocket will soon become BlogScour.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-21
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Google Registers The Solar System
Obviously, the world is not enough. Not for James Bond and apparently not for Google either; who, fresh off of the Google Earth launch, have set their mapping sites on bigger prospects like the solar system.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-21
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Yahoo Rolls Out Unannounced SERP Update
Every so often, a search engine has to refresh the contents of their index by performing any number of result-related updates. It's usually pretty easy to find when search updates are going on, especially when it affects the big 3. All you have to do is monitor any of the popular SEO/SEM forums.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-20
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Google Maps Fought the Law—and Won
In a thank-you note to Google Maps entitled "How Google Maps Got Me Out of a Traffic Ticket," single-named Edwin describes how he used Google Maps in traffic court to thwart the fuzzy memory of a police officer.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-20
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Google Expands Alert Coverage
Instead of RSS feeds, Google offers email-based alert updates for news topics users choose to monitor. Whenever you establish an update, Google emails you to inform you the topic you are monitoring has changed or had content added.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-20
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Microsoft Google-Eyed Over Lee
Microsoft levied the lawyers against Google on Tuesday as Google announced the hiring of Dr. Kai-Fu Lee for the top China R&D position at Google. Microsoft filed the lawsuit against Lee and Google for violating a no-compete agreement Lee had signed with Microsoft. His job at Microsoft was exactly what he's now doing for Google.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-20
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Blinkx Launches RSS Feeds For Search Queries
Today, Blinkx debuted SmartFeed, the newest feature to their search service, which focuses more and more on the rich media aspect of search. Initially, blinkx launched with the intention of developing a strong presence in the desktop search field, which has since become watered down.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-19
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Would You Pay $1000 For A PR9 Link?
When attempting to improve PageRank, one thing rings true: the better the PR a site linking to you has, the better it can affect your score. There are a number of ways to go about gathering links, including paying for them.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-19
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I Found Jesus On Google Maps
Now I've really seen everything. Today, a British news source, Channel Register, showed me an aerial shot from Google Maps featuring a Shroud of Turin-esque likeness staring at me from a Peruvian sand dune. Oh-and a San Diego office building in the shape of a swastika.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-18
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Should Google Introduce A Malware Filter?
One of the bigger complaints about Google's search ability is the amount of sites containing various amounts of malware or spyware or viruses still tend to permeate Google's search results. Many a horror story has been told about a users getting some type of computer infection from a site they've discovered on Google (or any search engine for that matter).
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-18
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MSN Search Tags User Requests
In order to deliver a more robust search service, MSN is paying attention to the numerous user requests it receives. In order to categorize this bulk of user feedback, MSN Search is employing tagging.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-18
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Technorati Versus Bloglines
So, back to Berlind's fact check -- then I'm taking off the rest of the day. Let's look. Bloglines wins: 8 times compared to Technorati's 5 wins, so overall Bloglines wins the link contest. Ties: 1 ...
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-16
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Yahoo Video Now Supports Flash
In an extremely innovative move on Yahoo's part, they've introduced Flash support into their video search service, an integration none of their competitors have pulled off, unless they've done it behind closed doors.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-15
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Another PageRank Update Is Underway
It actually started last night, but yes, Google is in the process of updating PageRank to the usual fanfare. As mentioned before, when Google does an update like PageRank or backlinks, people flock to the forums to discuss the results.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-15
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WayBackMachine Sued Over...?
Apparently, once you put a web site out in a public domain area, there's still some contention over who "owns" the right to display the content, even after the site in question has been removed.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-14
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MSN Search And Backlink Stability
One of the neater things you can do with search engines is estimate how many sites are linking to yours. By conducting a search with a backlink command in the query, search engines will return an aggregate amount of sites that are linking to the domain being searched.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-14
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Yahoo Rebrands European Divisions
Yahoo has merged all its European search products under one common business brandname, Yahoo Europe. Two years ago, Yahoo acquired the original PPC engine Overture, which had previously purchased Alta Vista and AlltheWeb, the search engine designed by the Norwegian search firm FAST.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-14
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Google Updates AdSense Policies
One thing is certain about covering Google, don't ever expect them to become stagnant. They are constantly refining and improving new and existing products, ensuring that they function as intended, as well as addressing concerns associated with users or outdated policies.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-14
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Is HotJobs Getting An Unfair Rap?
Yahoo has been taking a great deal of flap for their decision to allow their HotJobs search engine to scrape job listings from other sites. The general consensus among many bloggers is that this is a poor choice on Yahoo's behalf, which leads to a question: Why?
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-13
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Search For Music Files With Google
Has Google introduced a music search function that's similar to their video search feature? No, unfortunately not. But, thanks to a never-say-die user, there are adjustments you can make to your search string that can help locate these types of files.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-13
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Doc Searls Defends Technorati
Doc Searls comes to Technorati's defense regarding several posts based on the original Tom Foremski piece on SVW about the alleged blatant selling of Technorati to corporate America on a recent panel.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-12
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Google Testing Imbedded Alternate Searches
Have you ever conducted a search and found the results don't exactly match what you were looking for? During these times, have you ever wanted your search engine to suggest other queries worth trying? Apparently, Google believes there's a demand for such a service and is currently experimenting with it.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-12
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High Search Engine Ranking - A Blessing and a Curse
One of the beauties of having a highly ranked site that is regularly visited by search engine bots is that you can very quickly rise to the top of search engines on a breaking news story. This can be a wonderful thing - but it can also be something of a curse. Let me illustrate.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-11
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Google Maps Address Hack
Has it's been documented quite frequently, since the launch of Google's map service, there have been quite a few hacks and extensions built that further Google's map search functionality.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-11
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Google Wins Domain Name Case
The National Arbitration Forum has ruled in Google's favor. Legal representatives of Google were before the forum with concerns over the rights to Internet domain names googkle.com, ghoogle.com, gfoogle.com and gooigle.com.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-11
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MSN Search Update in Progress?
I've noticed quite a few people in Search Engine forums over the past day commenting on changes that they are experiencing in MSN Search results for their sites. It looks like they have an update of some sort in progress.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-11
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Google Squanders AdWords Campaign
I'm doing some research on t-shirts and always liked the blogger tees I got from Shellen. So I went to google and searched for Blogger tees. The first sponsored result above the natural results was for blogger but I was more interested in finding them at the Google Store.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-11
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Google Releases Firefox Toolbar
Google has released its toolbar for Firefox, its first product designed specifically for a non Internet Explorer browser. While some Google products work with FF, none of them have been exclusively produced for the popular open-source browser.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-08
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Is This Tag Spam?
There's a little bit of an arguement between Steve Rubel and the Yahoo Search Blog as to whether Yahoo's My Web 2.0 has been co-opted by massive spamming.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-08
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Channel-Based Wholesale PPC Still on a Roll
A number of companies have been vying to help publishers run their own PPC auctions. MyGeek and Quigo have been a couple leaders in this area. This was largely pioneered by Sprinks content match, which operated on a "channel" basis allowing advertisers to place ads, mostly on About.com.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-08
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I Don’t Get Pop Culture Surfing
I got this release from AOL detailing their top searches of the summer so far. Some of the pop culture related searches confounded me. For example, why was Tom Cruise #23 among stars, while Katie Holmes is #17?
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-07
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GoogleMaps as a Tool in a Job Hunt
Getting started is really simple. Enter one or more of these criteria: a position, a location, a few keywords describing the job you are looking for, one or more target companies, and press ‘List Jobs' to get the list of job openings matching your requirements or press ‘Map Jobs' to have them displayed on a map.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-07
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CustomizeGoogle
CustomizeGoogle is a Firefox extension that enhance Google search results by adding extra information (like links to Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN etc) and removing unwanted information (like ads and spam).
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-07
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Gmail Adds Additional Language Support
With the popularity of Google's email service continuing to grow, the search engine has continued to tweak Gmail's abilities in order to the growing number of international users who've shown interest in using the service.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-07
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The MozBot Engine
There's something new coming up says Gary Price from SearchEngineWatch. It's a new search engine in France, and there's a plug for Mac users and FireFox-adepts. Let's check this out.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-06
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Google Tutor for Sale
I began GoogleTutor.com with a great idea-to provide practical, useful information for everyday users of Google. I knew that most people had no idea of what they could do with Google. The site was an instant success, receiving up to 5,000 unique visitors a day.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-06
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Google Earth Resumes Downloads
Recently, Google suspended the ability to download the appropriate file to install their increasingly popular Google Earth map service. Google provided no reason for doing so, although some speculated that the demand for Google Earth was (and is) extremely high, and therefore Google couldn't support all of the download requests.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-06
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Yahoo Launches HotJobs Job Engine
When it comes to covering the search engine industry, the press seems to begin and end with Google happenings, something this author is guilty of as well. However, it's always nice to cover the happenings of Google's competitors, provided they've done something to warrant said coverage.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-06
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Google Wins Click-Fraud Case vs Auction Experts
Google 1 - Auction Experts 0.
from [MediaBuyerPlanner] : "Google won its suit against an AdSense partner publisher that it had accused of deliberate click fraud. Two months ago, a California judge granted Google a $75,000 judgment against Auction Experts, a Texas firm, according to MediaPost...
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-05
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GoogleGlobe - The Virtual World
They are interested in OUR favorite place on earth. We can add our places (e.g. your home, work, nature, holiday destination etc) to the site by filling in the form at the left side of the site.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-05
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Google Sued Over Click Fraud
Google profits from the manipulation of its pay-per-click advertising service by others, and hasn't done enough to end the practice, according to a lawsuit filed by pay-per-click analysis firm Click Defense.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-01
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US Crawfishes On ICANN, Will Remain Internet “Steward”
The US Commerce Department announced yesterday its decision to indefinitely maintain supervision of the Internet's "root servers" that control web traffic. The decision hasn't been popular with international stakeholders who think oversight of Internet traffic should be a multi-national effort.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-07-01
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