June 22nd, 2007
Google have had this problem for a few days now and never found the time to fix it. Apparently, when you search for site:youtube.com “clicks from ftp @”, you can see all the ftp details for many YouTube users.
PS. As I mentioned, this has been out for right about a week now, so it is […]
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June 21st, 2007
When Vanessa Fox, lead developer at Google Webmaster Central, left Google last week to work at Zillow, I considered it a minor event and didn’t even report, but the report this morning at SEL of Two Top Google Engineers Leave Google really makes one ask whether we are watching a developing trend or just a […]
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June 21st, 2007
The biggest headline yesterday was from the British TIMESONLINE who announced that News Corp explores swap of MySpace site for Yahoo! stake. According to the article, News Corp who owns Myspace, will be willing to give Myspace away in return for a 30 per cent stake in Yahoo. This means a return of $12.3 billion […]
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June 4th, 2007
Did Microsoft decide to drop their current search technology and start from scratch? A recent report from TechCrunch mentions that Microsoft has gathered a team of twenty or more “rock star” developers who’ve been tasked at building their next generation search engine.
According to their source, this is a new “very cool”, “horizontal” engine which will […]
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May 18th, 2007
Via Vecosys‘ “VERY trusted source” comes the rumor of the day - Google is set to acquire Feedburner!
According to the source the delay in announcement is solely due to the delay in closing the DoubleClick deal and should be out soon thereafter.
The rise in popularity of RSS feeds caused Adsense and DoubleClick a big hit […]
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April 3rd, 2007
The recent search news from Google do not involve new tools or services from the company, not even a complaint about the company’s offerings. It is a search for a 3-foot python snake who has suspected to have invaded the company’s New York offices…
“What you have heard is in fact true and not an April […]
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March 12th, 2007
Two big search-related acquisition rumors were spread today, the one related to Yahoo being acquired by AT&T and the second about Google acquiring Dish Network.
MSNBC was the first to post Yahoo feels the pressure of AT&T alliance in which they write:
AT&T was trying to renegotiate a five-year-old agreement under which the US telecoms giant has […]
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February 1st, 2007
A little over a year ago, Google lost a battle for using it’s GMail name in the UK, and now it lost it’s right over the name in all of Europe.
The Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM), the body which is responsible for European community trademarks, rejected Google’s appeal after a stiff battle […]
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January 30th, 2007
Over the past weekend, two videos which were uploaded to YouTube caused a mad wave of rumors about an upcoming GoogleTV channel. The videos, titled How to Sign Up for GoogleTV Beta and UPDATE: GoogleTV Beta, are now considered to be a hoax as DNS mis-matches and other issues are claimed to be the proof […]
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January 27th, 2007
For a long time now, many SEO’s have been playing with the question “what would happen if Matt Cutts quit Google and joined an SEO firm?” After all, Matt leads Google quality team which is mainly in charge of fighting spam and exploits.
While that hasn’t happened (yet), NMA reports this week that four guys off […]
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