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Fast and InfoSpace are cooperating on mobile search
Fast Search and Transfer and InfoSpace to provide search services for phone companies.
By Pandia Guest Writer Lars Våge
The Norwegian company Fast Search and Transfer has for several years been one of the best search technology companies in the world. The company is now entering the mobile search market.
Together with the American company InfoSpace (the company that bought the legendary search engine WebCrawler and the metasearch engines MetaCrawler and Dogpile) Fast is to produce so-called white-label solutions for mobile search. This means technologies and services other companies may brand as their own.
Yahoo! does digg
Yahoo’s new Suggestion Boards met with protests from digg users.
Yahoo! has announced that it has launched its own digg-inspired service.
Using the Yahoo! Suggestion Boards you may comment on various products and vote for them in a digg-like manner.
5 things you have to search for before you die
We search for air fare tickets, celebrity gossip, the latest news, sports results and recipes. But what should we really spend our time searching for? We take a look at how the search engines tackle the major questions in life.
The Meaning of Life
We know its not fashionable, and that the latest reality shows are much more important. Still, once in a while, we should just stop, draw our breath and think: Why are we here? Are we here for a higher purpose: to learn, help, love? Or is it is up to us to embed our lives with meaning?
According to the top ranking site for the query on Google, the very unpretentious looking “The Meaning of Life”, reality is in fact “neither good nor bad, it is a very plastic inkblot sort of thing that can be bent and twisted in many directions depending on your beliefs.”
What should Google do with nazi propaganda on YouTube?
Google’s YouTube is publishing nazi videos online. How can Google stop this without violating the right to free speech?
There has been a lot of discussion online on Google’s policy regarding copyright-violations on YouTube, the social video distribution site it bought last year.
YouTube allows anyone to upload videos for global access.
Around the Web
Google Agrees to Buy Adscape
Google enters in-game advertising for video games (Red Herring Feb 15 2007)
Affiliate Success in 11 Steps
Payday Loan on the wide spectrum of elements that is affiliate marketing (Feb 9 2007)
The Future Of Natural Search Is Here
Google recently announced that it will be going ahead with personalized search results. (Unofficial SEO Feb 15 2007)
The Story of Sergey Brin
The life of a Google founder and his family (Moment Feb 2007)
Molu the Search Spider
Researchbuzz looks at a new search engine (Feb 12 2007)
View All Your Google Supplemental Index Results
The types of pages stuck in supplemental results can tell you a lot about information architecture related issues (SEO Book Feb 13 2007)
13 Reasons Why NoFollow Tags Suck
Using NoFollow in blog comments, the original intent of the tag, does nothing to discourage comment spammers. (SE Journal Feb 14 2007)
Google Webmaster Central Leaves Beta; Its Blog Gains Comments
The Official Google Webmaster Central Blog becomes the first official Google blog to gain comments. (SE Land Feb 14 2007)
Microsoft Announces Three New Windows Live Products for Mobile Devices
Live Search for Windows Mobile and Live Search for Java (Press release Feb 12 2007)
Yahoo! Messenger and Mail...together at last!
Yahoo! Messenger integrated with Yahoo! Mail Beta (Yahoo! Mail Feb 12 2007)
Google accused of benefiting from sale of pirated movies
The companies have accused Google of being too cozy with two Web site accused of providing access to illegal download (Sify Feb 13 2007)
Belgian papers win Google copyright suit
Belgian newspapers stop Google from linking to them (AP Feb 13 2007)
New Web techniques throw into metrics into question
Ajax and similar technologies make the old pageview count unreliable, Mercury News argues (Feb 9 2007)
Google, Time To Re-take Marketing 101
Google has to market its products to win, Jason Lee Miller argues (WebProNews Feb 9 2007)
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