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Archive for January 2006

January 26th, 2006

Google Settles in China

Google has decided to compromize and give in to China’s authorities demands in order to start Google China. This decision comes only a week after refusing to release personal search information to US authorities.
As part of the reported decision, Google agreed to censor […]

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January 26th, 2006

Google Clarifies Take on Adsense and Images

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January 24th, 2006

Google Founders are on a $1 Base Salary

Google has filed yesterday a report that lists it’s executive’s annual base salaries for 2006. Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page are listed at $1 annually, others see $75,000 raise (Note that any stock options and other items are not listed…)
Some of […]

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January 24th, 2006

Yahoo isn’t in it to Win it (But Still Improving)

In a recent interview with Susan Decker, Yahoo’s CFO, she was quoted as saying:
“We don’t think it’s reasonable to assume we’re going to gain a lot of share from Google,” Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker said in an interview. “It’s not our goal […]

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January 24th, 2006

Google News is Out of Beta

Google News is officially out of beta. The service which was launched in September of 2002 is now offering 22 regional editions in 10 languages, and have a better sense of how people use Google News.
Congrats Goog.
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January 20th, 2006

MSN Adds “More Instant Answers”

It seems as if MSN has gotten some good responses for their “Instant Answers” and decided to add some additional ones. Among the new ones:
Baseball / Football: Numerous statistics for historical baseball players and teams along with season data for current players. For example: babe ruth home runs, babe ruth home runs allowed, ichiro […]

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January 20th, 2006

How Long Does it Take to Get Indexed and Ranked in MSN and ASK

Trying to keep up with Work, Blogs and Forums, I sort of get caught up before the latter and never really get to follow much. Barry, on the other hand, has been doing a great job covering the different Forums, finding (and posting) the gems among them (good job Barry).
A couple of forum threads this […]

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January 16th, 2006

Google Pays 78.5c on the Dollar for Adsense ads

In a recent article posted by the NYTimes titled Google’s Shadow Payroll Is Not Such a Secret Anymore more light is being shed on how much Google really pays publishers.
Google.com and the company’s foreign search sites contribute more to Google’s bottom line than AdSense, because for every dollar the company brings in through AdSense […]

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January 16th, 2006

[Some] Search Engines Dress Up for the Occasion

For those of you who don’t know, today, it is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the US and some search engines have their “Doodles” up for the day. Normally, Yahoo will be in the pack, but today it is missing…

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January 13th, 2006

Google, Domain and All That’s in Between

Nick Wildson has recently wrote an article for Jim’s blog titled “What does Google know about your domain names?”. The article covers some ideas and speculations about what kind of information the title “registrar” really gives Google.
Now, you may wonder who Nick Wildson is (I know I did), well, “Nick Wilsdon has worked as […]

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