Tag Archives: search_engines

Any questions for John Battelle?

Posted on February 16, 2006 by

I will be interviewing John Battelle for PodLeaders.com on Monday. John is author of The Search – the book on the evolution of today’s search engines, John is one of the co-founders of Wired magazine and the founder and former … Continue reading →

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Measure Maps swallowed whole by Google!

Posted on February 15, 2006 by

I see Google have bought Measure Map an online web stats application. Google already have Google Analytics as a Web Stats application so they must really like Measure Map’s technology to say they have bought it from Adaptive Path (the … Continue reading →

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Could podcasting get content through the Great Firewall of China?

Posted on February 3, 2006 by

I wrote a couple of pieces last week about Google’s Internet censorship in China and the debate continues this week. The four largest American companies who are actively helping the Chinese government censor the Internet are Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and … Continue reading →

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Google founder defends censorship

Posted on January 26, 2006 by

David Kirkpatrick of Fortune met with Sergey Brin (one of the co-founders of Google) at the World Economic Forum at Davos and asked him about Google’s decision to censor the Internet in China (something I posted about the other day). … Continue reading →

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Google censors the Internet

Posted on January 25, 2006 by

The New York Times published an article yesterday (and I think I heard a reference this morning on Morning Ireland) about Google’s new Google.cn site. According to the article, the new Chinese version of the Google search engine: will not … Continue reading →

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Google News 1.0(?)

Posted on January 24, 2006 by

I see Google has announced that its Google News is finally out of Beta – it has been in Beta since it launched in September 2002! Looking at the Google News site, you’d be hard pressed to see any difference … Continue reading →

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Web 2.0 to suffer from United States Department of Justice request?

Posted on January 20, 2006 by

I see Xeni Jardin over at Boing Boing has posted an article on how the US Department of Justice have requested a weeks worth of search data from the major US search engines. Seemingly Yahoo, AOL, and MSN simply handed … Continue reading →

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Kudos to Michele

Posted on December 23, 2005 by

Serious kudos to Michele Neylon of Blacknight Solutions (an Irish hosting co.) – Michele was quoted in an article in eWeek where he slates Google’s customer service: Michele Neylon was once very happy with Urchin Software Corp., which provides a … Continue reading →

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"no banner ads on the Google homepage" – Marissa Mayer

Posted on December 23, 2005 by

I see the post I published earlier this week wondering if Google were now going to have banner ads on their site after their puchase of a stake in AOL has bee answered once and for all by none other … Continue reading →

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Are Google selling out?

Posted on December 20, 2005 by

We’ve all heard the reports that Google are buying a chunk of AOL – no doubt to keep their business and probably to stop Microsoft from buying them up! But now, the latest story to hit the wires (New York … Continue reading →

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