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Search Engine Herald

Archive for July 2005

July 26th, 2005

Google strikes back

Not content at letting Microsoft do all the suing, search giant Google has struck back with its own law suit targeted at the desktop giant Microsoft over Google’s recent employment of a former Microsoft exec, in a wrestling match that could quite easily be syndicated and sold to adoring Cable TV audiences.
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July 26th, 2005

Google offers RSS aggregation

Google is now offering RSS aggregation that supports any site using its Google Personalized Home Page service. Still a very basic service in terms of what can be done, but it will compete directly with Yahoo! News with a similar layout and style.
More at the Google Blog.

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July 25th, 2005

Yahoo buys Widget company

No, its not a corny line from a marketing text book but a true story. Yahoo has bought Konfabulator, the desktop Widget company. More at MacWorld

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July 25th, 2005

Map happy day!

More maps and pretty pics, this time from Microsoft with Virtual Earth. Unfortunately a bit like Googles Earth, its best described as Virtual United States. Also on the map front you can now cross a Google Map with a Google satelitte shot, so when you look at Australia you even have less to look at […]

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July 25th, 2005

The Best of Weblog Empire week ending 24 July

The Search Engine Herald is part of the Weblog Empire network, a growing network of blogs providing quality content across a range of subjects. Some of the best posts this week include:
Donklephant, our new centrist political blog: Montag asks when did Marijuna labs become political in What Does “Liberal” Mean in this Context?, Justin covers […]

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July 21st, 2005

Google launches moon, forgets about actually making other products better

You know a company is looking pretty f*cked up when their priorities turn to mapping the moon when they haven’t even bothered mapping most of the earth and their satelitte imagery outside of the US is still crap.
Introducing Google Moon.

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July 20th, 2005

Google to Open Research and Development Center in China

Google has announced that it will open a product research and development center in China, and has hired respected computer scientist and industry pioneer, Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, to lead the operation and serve as President of the company’s growing Chinese operations.
The Google China R&D center will open in the third quarter of 2005. China, with […]

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July 20th, 2005

Yahoo! losing managers left, right and center

Careless or sign of something bigger perhaps, but reports indicate that Yahoo media and entertainment offerings face snags as several media group heads are leaving or choosing not to move to new Los Angeles-area offices.

CNN quotes the Wall Street Journal citing Yahoo! as saying that of the company’s eight media division general managers, three heading […]

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July 20th, 2005

Google Posts Record Number of Searches

Latest search stats from ECT:
Google’s 5.65 billion U.S. queries placed it at the top of the Web ferret pack for the quarter, followed by Yahoo, with 4.65 billion queries and a 30.4 percent market share; MSN, with 2.39 billion queries and a 15.6 percent share; AOL/Time Warner, with 1.41 billion queries and a 9.2 percent […]

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July 20th, 2005

Yahoo! revenue up, stock down, I’m confused

Yahoo! has reported surging earnings with a 51% increae to $754.7 million in the quarter, up from $112.5 million in the same frame a year ago, and yet the stock goes down. They obviously all forget the bubble: hello people, they’re profitable?!

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