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Dell To Sell Google
Search Widgets By Search News Desk Dell is gonna sell
Google's search widgets,
the $30,000-to-start
Google Search Appliance
and the $2,000-to-start
Google Mini to American
companies, large and
small. It already sells
PCs with Google's desktop
search. And now it'll
have 2950 servers
compatible with ... Nov. 30, 2007 08:15 PM Reads: 5,262 Replies: 1 | Google's DNA Investment
Starts Up By Search News Desk Remember that $3.9
million that Google
dropped into co-founder
Sergey Brin's fiancée's
start-up right before
they were married? Well,
as of Monday said
start-up, 23andMe, is
peddling $999 DNA saliva
tests so people can find
out about their ancestry,
inherited trai... Nov. 29, 2007 08:45 AM Reads: 4,385 | Senators Press for Close
Scrutiny of GoogleClick
Deal By Search News Desk The Federal Trade
Commission has heard from
two US senators on the
Antitrust, Competition
Policy and Consumer
Rights subcommittee,
chairman Herb Kohl (D)
and ranking minority
member Orrin Hatch (R),
urging it to redouble its
scrutiny of the
Google-DoubleClick deal... Nov. 26, 2007 05:45 PM Reads: 4,990 | EC To Take Long Look at
GoogleClick By Search News Desk The European Commission
has decided not to stint
on its investigation of
the proposed
Google-DoubleClick merger
and, beginning Tuesday,
is treating it to a rare
in-depth review that will
take until April 2. The
move raises the hopes of
GoogleClick critics like
Mic... Nov. 21, 2007 10:15 AM Reads: 3,489 | Google Search Engine Sued
for Patent Infringement By Search News Desk It also talked to Jarg
co-founder Michael
Belanger. He told Reuters
that he's been sitting on
the claims for years for
lack of money but then
found a law firm -
Texas-based Vinson &
Elkins - willing to take
the case on contingency.
They're seeking damages
and roya... Nov. 21, 2007 09:30 AM Reads: 3,578 | Microsoft Creates Free
Search Server By Search News Desk Microsoft has pulled the
search widgetry out of
SharePoint Server 2007
and turned it into a
standalone Search Server
2008 Express that it will
make available as a free
download. It says
information workers waste
as much as 9.5 hours a
week on searches that
don't t... Nov. 9, 2007 12:00 PM Reads: 4,712 Replies: 1 | EC Studying Google's
'Concessions' on
DoubleClick Acquisition By Search News Desk The European Commission
said Monday that it's
going to take another two
weeks and change to weigh
the widely criticized
Google-DoubleClick deal
and either rubberstamp it
or plow into a deeper,
months-long
investigation. It was
supposed to say something
by Friday ... Oct. 31, 2007 04:30 AM Reads: 3,828 | Google Version 2.0:
Googzilla - The
Calculating Predator By Search News Desk  Google is perhaps today's
best example of a company
built on calculative
thinking. Like a grand
master in chess, Google
uses strategic feints to
obtain its objective -
winning the game. Google
Version 2.0 shares the
search and ad
capabilities of Google
Version 1.... Oct. 23, 2007 11:30 AM Reads: 22,855 Replies: 1 | Internet Discovery +
Social Search =
StumbleUpon By Search News Desk  'We want to provide the
best, most engaging
discovery experience
possible -- whether
through the power of our
simple 'Stumble' button
or by enabling discovery
across the Web, with the
search engines our users
are already familiar
with,' said Michael Buhr,
general ... Oct. 23, 2007 05:00 AM Reads: 7,520 | Somebody in
Schleswig-Holstein
Doesn't Like GoogleClick By Search News Desk The data protection
commissioner of
Schleswig-Holstein Thilo
Weichert has written to
EC antitrust chief Neelie
Kroes saying the proposed
Google-DoubleClick merger
would mean the violation
of fundamental provisions
of the European Data
Protection Directive and
'lea... Oct. 9, 2007 01:45 PM Reads: 4,550 Replies: 1 | Google Adds Postini to
Enterprise Apps By Search News Desk Google said Wednesday
that it's added Postini's
e-mail security and
compliance service to its
Google Apps Premier
Edition just as it was
expected to when it said
in July that it was
buying the company for
$625 million cash. The
Postini widgetry is
supposed to be a... Oct. 8, 2007 10:45 AM Reads: 4,292 Replies: 1 | Cracking the 'Google
Code' By Search News Desk A pre-release of the new
book, SEO Notebook by
SEOpartner.com, promises
to give business Website
owners and Webmasters
leverage in real-world
SEO techniques and
strategies. According to
the authors, SEO Notebook
is a journal full of the
tips and techniques used
to... Oct. 3, 2007 09:00 AM Reads: 4,477 | Will Google Shares Reach
$600? By Search News Desk  Can the stock of Google,
whose share of the
Internet search market
according to ComScore
increased to 56.5% in
August (from 55.2% in
July) and who is striving
to acquire DoubleClick
for $3.1BN, reach $600,
just three years after it
began trading - at $85 -
in 2004? Oct. 3, 2007 03:00 AM Reads: 13,524 Replies: 1 | Who's Making Book on the
Google-DoubleClick Deal
Going Through? By Search News Desk  Well, now we'll get to
see just how powerful
Microsoft really is. The
test is whether it can
stop Google from taking
over DoubleClick and
becoming, in Microsoft's
words, the 'dominant
pipeline for all forms of
online advertising' as
well as 'the largest
database o... Oct. 1, 2007 06:45 AM Reads: 11,769 Replies: 1 | "Professional Cybercrime"
Is Making Its Mark
Web-Wide, Says Report By Search News Desk  The latest Symantec
Internet Security Threat
Report - covering the
reporting period of Jan.
1, 2007, through June 30,
2007 - highlights a shift
in the profile of
attackers from being
part-time cybercriminals
to making cybercrime
their actual profession.
'cyber cri... Sep. 18, 2007 05:30 AM Reads: 6,720 | Google Kicks Off
Worldwide Consumer
Privacy Crusade By Search News Desk  Google proposed at a
meeting of European
policymakers in
Strasbourg, France that
national regulators agree
on a basic set of global
privacy protections. Sep. 17, 2007 02:30 AM Reads: 11,054 | Google CFO To Retire One
Would Imagine To Count
His Money By Search News Desk Google has started
looking for a new CFO.
The post's current
occupant 53-year-old
George Reyes said Tuesday
that he wants to retire.
Google said he'll stick
around to help with the
search and ensure an
orderly transition, a
process it expects to
occur by the end o... Sep. 5, 2007 01:00 AM Reads: 8,241 Replies: 1 | Google Apps 'Career
Limiting': Burton Group By Search News Desk 'Google has caught the
attention of enterprises
with the low price [of
$50 per user per year] of
its Google Apps Premier
Edition (GAPE) solution.
However, there's a catch:
limited functionality and
new information
technology (IT) risks.'
Burton Group senior
analys... Sep. 5, 2007 12:45 AM Reads: 9,947 Replies: 1 | "We Need to Expand the
Way We Think About
Search," Declares
comScore SVP By Search News Desk 'This is an excellent
example of comScore
innovating to respond to
the challenges of a fast
moving marketplace,' said
Dr. Magid Abraham, CEO
and co-founder of
comScore, as the company
today announced the
launch of comScore
qSearch 2.0, calling it
'the second gener... Aug. 20, 2007 03:00 PM Reads: 6,292 | Google To Distribute Free
StarOffice By Search News Desk  We may all yet live to
see Google drop the
pretense and try taking
on Microsoft Office
head-on. In its latest
poke in Redmond's eye,
Google has added Sun's
StarOffice 8 to its
Google Pack of free
software - a motley
collection of
downloadable stuff like
Google E... Aug. 20, 2007 09:45 AM Reads: 10,271 Replies: 1 | PeekYou People Search
Engine Announces Beta 2.0 By Search News Desk  PeekYou.com
(www.peekyou.com), the
innovative search engine
dedicated to finding
people on the web,
announced today that it
has updated its tool set
to offer users the
quickest and most
relevant online people
search capabilities. The
Web site is the
Internet's f... Aug. 14, 2007 12:45 PM Reads: 7,444 | Krugle to Demo Code
Search Within Perforce at
AJAXWorld Conference &
Expo By Search News Desk  By making it possible to
search and index code
found in any Perforce
repository, Krugle helps
enterprise developers
easily find code, see
updates made to
particular code files,
see who made them and
better understand their
own code base. In
addition to Perforce,
... Aug. 13, 2007 01:15 PM Reads: 12,648 Replies: 1 | Wikipedia Creator
Advances Quest To Develop
Open Source
Counter-Google By Search News Desk  Despite Google's $159
billion market cap - or
rather, one suspects,
because of it - Jimmy
Wales, the guy who
created - for better or
worse - Wikipedia,
figures Internet search
is broken - because it's
proprietary - and needs
to be reinvented, freeing
'the judgment... Aug. 6, 2007 09:00 PM Reads: 11,227 Replies: 1 | Microsoft To Test
Ad-Based Software By Search News Desk  Seems we're waiting for
Microsoft to make a
defensive chess move
against Google's freebie,
ad-supported Docs &
Spreadsheets software
play and test a free
hybrid version of the
next release of its
low-end productivity kit,
Works, whose word
processing, spreadsheet,... Aug. 5, 2007 06:15 PM Reads: 6,177 Replies: 1 | EC OKs Search Engine
Research Evidently to
Take on Google By Search News Desk European Commission
regulators have
authorized Germany to
chuck roughly $165
million into
next-generation Semantic
Web-style multimedia
search engine research
evidently to take on
Google. The Germans call
the project Theseus after
the legendary Greek hero
who we... Jul. 30, 2007 01:45 PM Reads: 6,599 Replies: 1 | They Made America: From
the Stream Engine to the
Search Engine By Search News Desk Sir Harold Evans has
survived a libel action
brought by Tom Paterson,
the guy who wrote QDOS,
the mother of PC-DOS,
MS-DOS and Windows. In
his 2004 book 'They Made
America: From the Stream
Engine to the Search
Engine: Two Centuries of
Innovators,' Evans
dredged u... Jul. 30, 2007 10:30 AM Reads: 6,210 Replies: 1 | Digg Who? By Search News Desk Digg, the increasingly
ubiquitous reader-powered
web site and popular with
the Linux set, has fired
Google and hired
Microsoft and its
AdCenter to place ads on
Diggs' site for the next
three years, describing
Microsoft as 'a young ad
service-innovative-[and]
willi... Jul. 27, 2007 11:00 PM Reads: 6,007 Replies: 1 | Google Sued for Deceptive
Business Practices By Search News Desk The Australian
Competition and Consumer
Commission (ACCC) is
suing Google in federal
court in Sydney charging
it with misleading and
deceptive business
practices because it
fails to adequately
distinguish between
pay-per-click sponsored
links, the bedrock of
Goo... Jul. 27, 2007 08:00 PM Reads: 5,585 | Google Finds Another Way
To Charge for Search By Search News Desk  As a way of diversifying
- this time exploiting
its core competency - and
bringing in still more
money, Google wants to
sell SMBs a way for
visitors to search their
sites. It calls the
hosted, extranet service
Custom Search Business
Edition and is offering
it for ... Jul. 22, 2007 08:30 PM Reads: 9,641 Replies: 1 | Concern About Google's
Proposed Acquisition of
DoubleClick is Rising By Search News Desk Concern about Google's
proposed acquisition of
DoubleClick - some of it
presumably fanned by the
Microsoft lobby - is
rising. Besides a
pre-merger investigation
by the Federal Trade
Commission and a newly
confirmed review by the
European Commission, the
Senate Jud... Jul. 22, 2007 07:45 PM Reads: 7,849 Replies: 1 | Google Loses Search Share
to Microsoft By Search News Desk Well, fancy that. Google
may not be completely
indomitable in its core
market. According to
comScore Networks, Google
lost share in US search
to Microsoft in June,
when Google's numbers
apparently tends to
decline because of the
vacations and the summer
school bre... Jul. 22, 2007 10:45 AM Reads: 7,889 Replies: 1 | Yahoo Numbers Hint
Pressure to Sell Out Will
Rise By Search News Desk The Q2 profits that Yahoo
reported Tuesday were
shaky, down
year-over-year from $164
million to $161 million,
and its second-half
forecasts were limp,
which might explain why
CEO Terry Semel bailed.
Semel's replacement Yahoo
co-founder Jerry Yang
promised a new st... Jul. 20, 2007 04:15 PM Reads: 7,213 | Google Buys Postini To
Entice Big Companies to
its Hosted Apps By Search News Desk Google, which as we all
know (wink, wink, nod,
nod) isn't competing with
Microsoft, is acquiring
privately held Postini
for around $625 million
cash. The deal just
coincidently happens to
strengthen its
applications push into
the enterprise, which may
explain why ... Jul. 13, 2007 05:30 PM Reads: 8,327 Replies: 1 | Google Acquires
Security/Compliance
Company Postini By Search News Desk 'With this transaction,
we're reinforcing our
commitment to delivering
compelling hosted
applications to
businesses of all sizes.
With the addition of
Postini, our apps are not
just simple and appealing
to users -- they can also
streamline the complex
information ... Jul. 11, 2007 06:45 AM Reads: 12,161 Replies: 1 | European Search Engine
Probe To Widen By Search News Desk In response to Google's
mollifying offer to cut
the time it holds onto
the personal data it
amasses on searchers to
18 months, the Article 29
Data Protection Working
Party, the European
Union's privacy watchdog,
has basically said,
'We'll get back to you on
that.'... Jun. 26, 2007 01:45 AM Reads: 5,811 Replies: 1 | Wall Street Wants Yahoo!
To Do More Than Just Kick
Terry Semel Upstairs To
Be Chairman By Search News Desk Wall Street wants Yahoo!
to do more than just kick
Terry Semel upstairs to
be chairman. There seems,
however, little pixy dust
in the notion of Rupert
Murdoch throwing MySpace
into Yahoo in exchange
for 25% of the combined
operation. Murdoch paid
$580 million for My... Jun. 24, 2007 03:45 PM Reads: 6,983 Replies: 1 | Google Fortifies Its
PowerPoint Knockoff
Effort with Zenter By Search News Desk There's only a Google
logo, the words 'Google
has acquired Zenter' and
a pointer to a Google
blog left on the web site
of the precocious
six-month-old start-up
said to have software for
creating online,
viewer-polling slide
presentations, assets
that are supposed ... Jun. 22, 2007 01:00 PM Reads: 10,039 Replies: 1 | Google Claims Microsoft's
Violating Its Consent
Decree By Search News Desk The Justice Department
has brushed off a
complaint from Google
alleging that Microsoft
is violating its 2002
consent decree because
Vista supposedly
discourages users from
using Google's local
desktop search as opposed
to Vista's own. The New
York Times broke a st... Jun. 20, 2007 05:15 PM Reads: 8,053 Replies: 1 | Google Called "Endemic
Threat to Privacy" By Search News Desk  Privacy International
says Google, the
self-proclaimed 'do no
evil company,' has an
'entrenched hostility to
privacy,' a rating shared
by no other web site it
has been following. The
British watchdog put out
an interim report over
the weekend called 'A
Race to the... Jun. 20, 2007 05:15 PM Reads: 10,804 Replies: 1 | FTC Probing Microsoft &
Yahoo Ad Deals As Well As
Google's By Search News Desk At press time, the Wall
Street Journal was
reporting that the
Federal Trade Commission
is investigating
Microsoft's proposed $6
billion acquisition of
aQuantive and Yahoo's
$680 million buyout of
the rest of Right Media
as well as Google $3.1
billion DoubleClick d... Jun. 20, 2007 05:00 PM Reads: 7,274 Replies: 1 |
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