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  • Google eyes China as Baidu fumbles

    Baidu’s switch to a new advertising system, Phoenix Nest, may be the catalyst that boosts Google’s market share. (Economic Times Nov 15 2009)

  • Google makes concessions on digital book deal

    Internet search leader Google will ease its control over millions of copyright-protected books earmarked for its digital library Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/13/entertainment/e072815S41.DTL#ixzz0WvizOXXo (SFgate Nov

  • Google aims to double Web speed

    Google is hoping to make Web pages download up to twice as quickly using SPDY, a new application-layer protocol in Chrome (MacWorld Nov 13 2009)

  • Switzerland Drops Legal Hammer on Google Street View

    Hanspeter Thuer, the Swiss Data Protection Authority commissioner wants Google to ensure that all faces and car plates are blurred and that Google erase images of walled gardens and private streets (Google Watch Nov 14 2009)

  • WolframAlpha Makes It to Popular Science

    Popular Science, the world’s largest science and technology magazine, has released its 22nd annual list of the best 100 innovations, and named Wolfram|Alpha as the “Best of What’s New” Grand Award winner (Beyond Search Nov 14 2009)

  • Why I’m searching beyond Google

    In recent weeks I have been impressed by leapfish.com and duckduckgo.com (Victor Keegan, Guardian, Nov 11 2009)

  • SearchFreeFonts – over 13,000 Free Fonts on the Web

    SearchFreeFonts’ collection contains over 13,000 free fonts and over 91,000 commercial fonts. (Alt Search Engines Nov 12 2009)

  • Search for rare comics with relaunched ComicSeeker!

    Collectors of vintage Gold, Silver and Bronze Age comic books can search for their desired comics on the Internet, from a single web page. (Alt Search Engines Nov 9 2009)

  • Revised Google Book Settlement Filed & Live Blogging The Press Call

    It formally grants retailers who license out-of-print books covered by the settlement — including Google competitors — a 37% share of sales. (SE Land Nov 14 2009)

  • Google Acquires VoIP Company, Gizmo5

    Google has acquired Gizmo5, a Voice over the Internet Protocol network and software provider. (SE Watch Nov 13 2009)

  • “Look kids! Big Ben…House of Parliament…”and Bing in the UK!

    We are excited to announce today that Bing in the UK is shedding its beta tag. (Bing Community Nov 12 2009)

  • Yandex still biggest in Russia

    The latest numbers show Yandex takes up more than half of all searches in Russia. Considering that Mail.ru is also part of the Yandex network in total they take over 60%. (SearchCowboys Nov 13 2009)

  • PubCon 2009 Vegas Coverage Recap

    SE Roundtable covered just under 40 sessions at the 2009 PubCon. Here are the links (Nov 12 2009)

  • Gone Google at EDUCAUSE 2009

    Last week the Google Apps for Education team headed to Denver for EDUCAUSE 2009 where the higher education community meets annually. (Google Blog Nov 12 2009)

  • Bing Searches Increase 7 Percent in October 2009

    Experian® Hitwise® announced today that Google accounted for 70.60 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Oct. 31, 2009. (Press release Nov 11 2009)

  • Google China Music Player Gets Makeover

    Google launched a redesign of their Chinese music player (partnered with Top100.cn), which pops up in a new window when you perform a search at the Music base site. (Blogoscoped Nov 12 2009)

  • Bing fall update announced: Wolfram|Alpha, weather, more

    Most noticeable is the announcement of a partnership with Wolfram|Alpha to use their APIs and include nutritional information searches and math searches as part of Bing (LiveSide Nov 11 2009)

  • Google Adds SafeSearch Locking

    Using the new feature requires users to enter a Google account password, and when the feature is in effect, Google-colored balls will show at the top of the search results page. (SE Land Nov 11 2009)

  • Times Online pay wall erected next spring?

    It is full steam ahead for Murdoch’s plans to turn his UK newspaper websites into subscription site (TechRadar Nov 11 2009)

  • Google Latitude Rolls Out Location History and Alerts

    Location Alerts notifies you whenever you are near a friends location – that way you can easily contact that friend and perhaps arrange a meet-up at a designated place. (SE Journal Nov 11 2009)

  • Bing Integrates MSN Videos and Video Search

    The new Bing Video site combines Bing’s video search engine and MSN video site. (SE Journal Nov 11 2009)

  • Does Marissa Mayer’s “Perfect Search Engine” Already Exist In Siri?

    What Mayer may have unknowingly described is Siri, a “virtual personal assistant” that uses artificial intelligence to determine user intent and then match data or applications that can fulfill that intent. (SE Land Nov 10 2009)

  • Google, Bing & Yahoo Bribe Users With Free WiFi

    Google, which previously said it would provide free WiFi on all Virgin America flights through early next year, is now going to provide it at 47 US airports through the end of the year. (SE Land Nov 10 2009)

  • Google To Murdoch: Use No Index Or Just Ask

    News Corp. Founder and CEO Rupert Murdoch claims Google is stealing their content - the “content kleptomaniacs” as he has termed them. (SE Watch Nov 10 2009)

  • Google To Deliver New “Caffeine” Search After The Holidays

    The Google Caffeine Sandbox, where people have been invited since the summer to test Google’s next generation search infrastructure, has been closed (SE Land Nov 10 2009)

  • 3 Actual Uses of Twitter Lists

    Create a Group Tweet Widget; Subscribe to Lists by RSS; Monitor Popular Lists, Promote Lists (SE Journal Nov 10 2009)

  • Google Music Search: 3 Major Implications for the Music Business

    Googlers already search for songs, artists, and lyrics en masse, but the immediate click-to-listen and buy options that Google now provides could very well make them less likely to take the extra step back over to iTunes. (Mashable Nov 7 2009)

  • Marissa Mayer Chosen As A Glamour Magazine Woman Of The Year

    Google’s Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer was recently profiled in a Vogue Magazine article (TechCrunch Nov 6 2009)

  • Experimenting with Digg Trends

    Digg Trends will surface certain highly active stories as they’re trending to Digg’s homepage so people can vote on whether or not they feel the story actually belongs there. (Digg Blog Nov 4 2009)

  • Microsoft Sites Captures Largest Share of Time Spent Online Worldwide

    Facebook and YouTube Combined Account for Nearly 10 Percent of Time Spent Online Globally (ComScore Nov 6 2009)

  • How Google & Yahoo Make Money Off A Twitter Typo Domain

    Google has a program known as AdSense For Domains, previously known as DomainPark. Got a tasty domain but no content for it? AdSense For Domains will put lucrative ads up on it (SE Land Nov 5 2009)

  • Going Down The Long Tail of Local Search

    Because so many searches are now localized a long tail of local phrases are emerging within major metropolitan areas. (SE Guide Nov 5 2009)

  • Explore Music Albums and Songs with Yahoo! Video Search

    Yahoo Search Blog: We have hooked into the “Web of Things” to intelligently extract the most popular albums and songs for artist or band queries. (Nov 5 2009)

  • Google NEAR Operator & Exclude Faces on Image Search

    There are two threads at Google Web Search Help where there are two search suggestions that Google has listened to as a possible addition to Google’s advanced search. (SE Roundtable Nov 5 2009)

  • Google Makes it Easier to Add Custom Section to Google News

    Now, you can create your own topical news streams based on keywords that you would normally use if you want to get the latest news on a particular topic. (SE Journal Nov 4 2009)

  • Google Friend Connect Gets Personal

    In addition to allowing members of your site to send each other private messages, now Google is bringing its personalization home to your site with Friend Connect. (Marketing Pilgrim Nov 4 2009)

  • Bing & Google Maps Update Map Imagery

    The Bing blog announced an additional 9,460 square kilometers of imagery added to Bing Maps. (SE Land Nov 4 2009)

  • Google Celebrates Anniversaries For Sesame Street, Wallace & Gromit & Many Others

    It is the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street and Google made a Doodle for it (SE Roundtable Nov 4 2009)

  • Microsoft launches MSN Music download service

    msn-music-hits-open-beta MSN Music hits open beta Microsoft has revealed that it has finally opened up the doors of its long-awaited music download service - MSN Music. (TechRadar Nov 3 2009)

  • MSN Introduces Dramatically Improved Redesign, Portal Drives Nearly 50% Of Bing Queries

    The redesign makes video more central, incorporates Facebook and Twitter, creates a dedicated new local area and emphasizes search. (SE Land Nov 4 2009)

  • Research & Build Links with Followtopia Search Engine

    Backlink checker that generates a list of most powerful pages and shows if “Nofollow” attribute has been applied to the external links on the page (SE Journal Nov 3 2009)

  • Cutting back on your long list of passwords

    Google Blog on hybrid onboarding: sites sharing registration IDs and passwords (

  • Turkish government claims Google owes €32 million in taxes

    The Turkish government claims it is entitled to additional taxes because of the fact Google operates its online advertising in the country and even boasts offices and a registered subsidiary there while bills and payments originate from Ireland. (TechCrun

  • Google Adds “Page Preview” To Search Options

    If you go to Google, search on something and click on “show options,” you can then look towards the button on the left hand side and click on “page previews.” (SE Land Nov 3 2009)

  • Rise Of The Web Librarian: An Elegant DMOZ Solution

    Using libary and information science graduates to edit the Open Directory (SE Land Nov 3 2009)

  • Google Related Links (Again)

    Google Related Links (II) shows further links from a given domain which are deemed relevant to a particular page the widget is embedded on. (Google Blogoscoped Nov 3 2009)

  • Google launches local news in France

    After the US, the UK, India, Canada and Germany Google has launched their local news service in France. (Search Cowboys Nov 3 2009)

  • Google Search by voice travels the world, finds Nokia, learns Chinese

    Google search by voice is available for Nokia S60 phones, and now understands Mandarin Chinese (Google Blog Nov 2 2009)

  • Illegal downloads drive online music sales

    New survey suggests downloaders end up spending more in the end (techradar Nov 1 2009)

  • Google News Ranking Algorithm

    The USPTO document that caught my interest was US20090276429, Systems and Methods for Improving the Ranking of News Articles.” Like most Google patent documents, the claims are interesting. (Beyond Search Nov 8 2009)

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