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Archive for June 2005

June 30th, 2005

Map Mania

Following hot on the heels of Google’s release of an API for Google Maps, Yahoo! has announced the same for its map service, and A9 has launched a mapping service as well. Stupid thing is they are all competing for the same US market, when are some of them going to realise that a map […]

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June 30th, 2005

Kiddies are safer on MSN: report

Kiddies are apparently less likely to accidently find porn (like for most teenagers its an accident :-) ) using MSN search, according to a riverting report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.
The report was not clear as to whether this was an inbuilt or purposeful choice from MSN, or just the fact that they […]

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June 30th, 2005

MSN Toolbar goes international

MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search product has gone international with the release of the Japanese version, resulting in versions now available for the following Japan, UK, Canada (English & French versions), Germany, Australia, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Mexico, Brazil, US
more at the MSN Search blog.
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June 30th, 2005

Google releases API for Google Maps

Another day, another Google announcement. This time Google has released the API for Google Maps. Information available here. Should make programmers happy but for the rest of us its just another Google announcement…I wonder if Google’s new motto is “An announcement a day keeps the day traders at bay?”
(via TUGW)
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June 29th, 2005

Yahoo to overhaul web mail

Yahoo announced Tuesday that it plans to begin testing a massive overhaul of its web-mail service so it looks and behaves like a desktop-client application, such as Outlook.
The beta version of Yahoo Mail would include features like drag and drop email organization and message preview, but still operate out of a web browser. The new […]

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June 29th, 2005

Google launched personalized search: big brother watching even more

Another day and yet another announcement from Google, this time is the launch of Personalized Search. Big brother…sorry Goggle wants to help you with your search queries by finally putting together what they always new about you anonymously from the infamous Google cookie with your actual name, adress, phone number etc, + of course the […]

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June 28th, 2005

Google discovers earth doesn’t stop at the US border

Finally, finally Google has launched Google Satellite for the rest of the planet!! but yet the shot over my house is terrible, and as you can see from this shot of my general area here that the overlayed higher res shots to the bottom of the screen were taken in summer (the brown) whilst the […]

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June 28th, 2005

CSM on Google: The world’s most intriguing company

Interesting piece over at the CSM on Google today.
“Grand vision seems to be the touchstone for the seven-year-old company, which earned more than $1.2 billion last quarter and is growing so fast and in so many directions that many observers are left scratching their heads. Just what is Google? Does the company itself even know? […]

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June 28th, 2005

Google Vieo Launched….wake me up

Incase you missed the news Google has officially launched Google Video. Dancing monkeys….wow!…..yawn…….
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June 27th, 2005

Google to become affiliate network host?

Michael Nguyen has a different theory again on what the new Google Wallet might actually be:
I think Google’s initial use of a payment system is to add a pay-per-sale model to their current pay-per-click advertising network. Merchants using AdWords to advertise and Google Wallet to process their sales will be able to track which […]

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