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DOJ Defends Asking For Search Terms
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-26
The U.S. Department of Justice says, in a recent court filing, that it did not ask for anything untowards when it requested Google turn over evidence of its consumers' search habits.
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Did Google Just Become eBay?
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-25
Google plans to tie-in its own online payment features to Google Base, thus transforming Base into even more of an online market place ala eBay or Amazon. Base users, at an undisclosed future date, will be able to buy items on Google Base using their Google Accounts, or so says
Analyst Day: This Coming Thursday
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-24
The billionaire boys club open up their treehouse on March 2.
Yahoo Digs Its Claws Deeper Into Wikipedia
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-23
Yahoo! Search has a new feature to more easily pinpoint details within Wikipedia-created Web pages that show up in Yahoo search results. Wikipedia entries returned by Yahoo search
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Is That Google In Your Palm?
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-23
It seems that now whenever a cell phone short messaging service or Web browser queries Google's search engine, Google adjusts the results to fit the phone's smaller screen, writes Google
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Getting To Be As Big As Google
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-23
A few minutes with Francois Bourdoncle, co-founder and chief executive of Exalead, the global business and consumer search provider. He has a few tricks up his sleeves that Google doesn't. Q: How is it you plan to topple Google? A: Our product is superior. The entry barrier has never
Phone Spam: Plenty of 'Solutions'; No Problem
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-23
The security buzzards are doing their thing now that Google Inc. and other search giants are adding Internet phone calls into search advertisements. By tinkering with something
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Google Stops Turning The Page
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-23
Google's Web page maker meant for the regular guy, the one that doesn't know what HTML is, can be downloaded here. But wait a little while, Google says for now it has run out of capacity for any more accounts. "We decided in advance to limit the number of
SAP Working On Enterprise Search Zapper
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-22
SAP says it may enhance its NetWeaver line-up of corporate computing features with a powerful new search technique. "Bottom line is that this is an area we are examining, as we are doing with many areas related to business intelligence, but customer needs will dictate what actually is added to
New Google Goo For Business Desktops
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-22
Google Inc. has released a new version of its computer desktop search feature aimed at businesses. It's available here. The feature is free, but it comes with options that aren't. The new
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Mashup Camp Update: Attack of the Google-wannabes!
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-21
The ongoing Mashup Camp show in Palo Alto, Calif. is teeming with companies claiming they've found features that search giants, in particular Google, haven't yet, rejected, or just
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A New Knight For Knight Ridder
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-21
News publisher MediaNews Group has emerged as a candidate to buy Knight Ridder, an elite U.S. newspaper chain, says a source. It's a potentially volatile mix, when comparing the respective views
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Mashup Camp: No Agenda Necessary
By Ben Charny | Posted: 2006-02-21
In search of an agenda at this Silicon Valley event? You won't find one.
Google Will Make Radio Stations More Accountable to Advertisers
By Steve Bryant | Posted: 2006-02-15
AdAge reports on how Google's ad-tracking abilities and the emergence of HD radio may up the ante by making radio stations more accountable to advertisers.
Google Partners with BearingPoint
By Steve Bryant | Posted: 2006-02-14
Your employees use Google all day long anyay, so why not extend the familiar interface and capability to your entire enterprise. It's not a question. This is one more feather in Google's search dominance cap. (God, what an awful metaphor. I might as well have said "Google puts
