25.Nov.2009 Canadian, Australian Authorities Clear Microsoft/Yahoo Deal
Two down, two to go for the Microsoft-Yahoo search ads deal. Both the Canadian and Australiation anti-trust authorities have just cleared the controversial deal. In a joint announced published by SeattlePI blog, Yahoo and Microsoft jointly stated that:
Microsoft and Yahoo! have been notified that Australian and Canadian authorities have separately concluded their reviews and [...]
23.Nov.2009 Google Adds Twitter Accounts to Press Center
Google has taken their endorsement of Twitter to a new level this week, with the addition of a directory of their official Twitter accounts to the Press Center.
I discovered the new directory when I visited the Press Center today and was greeted with the message:
“New! Browse our official list of Google’s Twitter accounts”.
Clicking on the [...]
17.Nov.2009 Google Image Swirl. It is new and it is fun!
After graduating the feature “Find Similar Images” in Google Labs, here’s a new experiment on finding and exploring images being offered by Google – Image Swirls. The idea behind Google Swirl is similar to the “Wonder Wheel” options that was recently introduced in Google Search Panel.
16.Nov.2009 SPAM! How to avoid, and how to NOT! spread.
Say the word “SPAM” and people cringe. Anyone and everyone who deals with emails and electronic information feels the SPAM blues and wishes they could somehow avoid it.
I read a tweet today that said something to the effect of “I hate SPAM more than I hate the real chatty person sitting next to me on [...]
13.Nov.2009 Google releasing Chrome OS next week?
There’s no doubt that many are anticipating the release of Google’s Chrome OS. In fact, we’ve seen several “alleged” screenshots and what-have-you’s relating to the Chrome OS before. But none of these proved to be official though. And we were told that Google Chrome OS was not to become available until fall of next year. [...]
11.Nov.2009 Google Latitude – Location History and Location Alerts
Again, Google has launched a new service that will either please or scare you. It’s Google’s Latitude’s Location History and Location Alerts. Location History tracks where you have been at any point in time, while Location Alerts notifies you whenever you are near a friends location – that way you can easily contact that [...]
05.Nov.2009 Retirement of MSN Bot 1.1
As MSNBot 2.0b enters full-scale production, they will retire the previous generation bot, MSNBot 1.1. By the end of the first week in November, you will no longer see the following user agent in your referrer logs: msnbot/1.1 (+http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm) The only Bing user agent you will see in your logs from this point forward will [...]
