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Archive for July 2005

July 20th, 2005

Let the cat fight begin: Microsoft sues over Google hire

Finally some proper fighting between the search engines with news that Microsoft is suing Google and a former Microsoft executive who has been hired by Google to run its China operations.
The suit was filed in a Washington state court against Google and Kai-Fu Lee, who until Monday was the corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Interactive […]

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July 18th, 2005

AP wakes up to Google=Big Brother

Its just like: wow! do they really know that man….cool bananas
AP: How Much Does Google Know about You?

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July 18th, 2005

And then there were 37

MSN has announed further additions to the list of countries that get their own version of the MSN Tool Bar, the new number now equalling 37. Another 5 and they’ll have reach the meaning of life.
The list now reads :Australia, Austria, Belgium (Dutch & French versions), Brazil, Canada (English & French versions), China (Simplified Chinese), […]

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July 15th, 2005

Yahoo to offer German tranlsation search

Yahoo is to offer a service for its German site that allows users to place their search term in German and have English speaking sites returned in the results without needing to type the English search term, a sort of translation-search feature.
ZDNet has more details but mucks up the Germam laungage with a headline of […]

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July 15th, 2005

Google launches Maps for Japan

Google has expanded their maps service to include Japan, according to a report on the Google Blog. The Japanese services follows Maps services for the US, Canada and the United Kingdom.

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July 15th, 2005

Australian website owner sued for linking to illegal content: will Google, Yahoo be next?

An interesting case from Australia where the operator of a website that provided links to pirated material, but didn’t actually host them, has been successfully sued by Record Companies (BBC report here) , along with his ISP for hosting the page that linked to the material, raises an interesting question: is Google, Yahoo! and other […]

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July 14th, 2005

Microsoft/Claria Deal that may have never been doesn’t get off the ground

Microsofts alleged tango with spyware company Claria, the company formerly known as Gator, is off according to Clickz.
Apparently some bright spark at Microsoft turned the light on upstairs and realised that buying Claria wouldn’t look to good for Microsoft. My only question is why in the world did it take so long for them to […]

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July 13th, 2005

Microsoft Testing New Hotmail Interface

No its not an Island, Kahuna is codename for the forthcoming upgrade of MSN’s tired old Hotmail service that will give grandpa Hotmail a new interface with automatic inbox refreshing and a preview panel that will enable Hotmail users to read and respond to e-mail without ever leaving their inbox.

According to BetaNews, the Microsoft team […]

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July 13th, 2005

Yahoo to carry live space shuttle feeds from NASA

Yahoo will provide live video streams of the coming “return to space” flight of the Space Shuttle.
The stream will be in the Windows Media format and will compete against the Real Audio stream being offered by NASA itself.

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July 12th, 2005

Google may buy Chinese search site

Rumors are floating around that Google is said to be interested in acquiring Baidu, China’s largest search engine, in which they currently hold a 4% stake, which seems to have arisen from Google CEO Eric Schmidt visiting Beijing recently and meeting with Baidu officials. In unrelated reports Schmidt has reportedly visited a the factory of […]

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