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Saddam Hussein Needs an Editor
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-28
(Warning: For now, both Web sites cited in this dispatch seem to be overwhelmed by all the attention.) Here's a job for you: Saddam Hussein's editor. The former Iraqi leader needs to punch his stuff up! Try this 2003 letter he wrote on for size: "We have said, since the great military
Google to Play Wireless Host?
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-27
Three newly unearthed patent applications attributed to Google employees offers some new tips about Google's wireless plans. Based on all the technology described in the applications, Google could,
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Talking TLDs, T and A with Paul Twomey
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-27
Paul Twomey heads ICANN, the Internet's leading governor. ICANN meets this week in Wellington, New Zealand. He spoke to reporters briefly before the affair kicked off. The deadline's
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The Politics of Search
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-27
There's new Federal Election Commission rules about revealing whether an Internet ad is political in nature, and what group or individual paid for it. For more, see here. Search engines, and
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Book Seller, Google Have Coffee Klatch, Discuss
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-24
Looks like Google is fooling around with mapvertising again, and has book seller Barnes & Noble in on the caper. Internet marketer Shimon Sandler says he's noticed a new icon, in the shape of a coffee cup, showing up on results from Google Local, which is the Mountain View, Calif.-based
Google Magazine Ads: Not a Page Turner
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-24
Google's initial experience placing ads in magazines and other print publications, as Businessweek reports, has been lackluster. Some advertisers tell the publication that even
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A Yahoo Clause for Concern
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-24
Web publishers say they are having trouble meeting a Yahoo Inc. requirement for participants in its self-serve Web advertising feature. The problems have to do with Yahoo's requirement
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Getting a Google Wedgie
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-23
There's a new breed of bully that terrorizes people using Google. Consider the salesman at Paramount Web Masters, a search engine marketing firm. According to several sources, he targets Web sites that
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Reading over Google's Shoulder
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-22
Google Reader now lets you share. Introduced in October, 2005, Google Reader is a one-stop Internet site offering access to content from other Web sites, RSS (really simple syndication)
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A Thousand Points of Google
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-21
The Google War of 2025 is catalyzed later this year when Sergey Brin and Larry Page have a brilliant new advertising idea. As Brin so-famously soon roars, "Why are there games on the back of a Cheerios cereal box when there could be a car ad?" Advertising absolutely everywhere becomes
Google Finance Cashes In
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-20
Google's launched Google Finance, its financial news and stock feature that will compete with Yahoo Finance and MSN Money. For now, it's getting panned, and some critics go as far to suggest Google's now in some kind of innovation lull. We'll see. Google Finance is only a beta release, which in
Nike and Google in Play
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-20
Joga is an invite-only online community for exchanging videos, photos, scores, news and other items about football. When switched on in the next few days, it'll be the first tangible results
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Loki Cometh
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-20
Worried about the Internet's erosion of your privacy? Take a look at Loki. The free, Web browser toolbar from Boston-based Skyhook Wireless automatically determines your lattitude and longitude, with an
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Porn Works in Google's Favor in Key Word Case
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-17
Porn has helped Google dodge quite a bullet. Google was facing a potentially catastrophic request from the government for a random sampling of the search terms its
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Google Knows the Score
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-03-17
March Madne$$ and TV-deprived? You can score with Google SMS.
