DoJ Demanded Info from ISPs, Tech Cos.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) handed down subpoenas to a number of Internet service providers and technology companies along with the one it issued to Google that eventually led to the search company’s partially successfully court case defending itself against the request for information, the Associated Press reports via the New York Post. Read More → ^ TOPGoogle, AOL Finalize Billion Dollar Deal
The investment agreement that kept Google's place as AOL's search and advertising partner has been hammered out to the satisfaction of both sides.Read More → ^ TOP
Microsoft, Yahoo eying potato country
Technology giants Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are planning to build massive data storage centers amid the sagebrush and farm fields of rural central Washington. Read More → ^ TOPYahoo! Abomination
Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang continues to spew excrement, echoing his shoulder-shrugging of earlier this month, which essentially amounts to saying: So sorry we assisted in human rights violations, but there's nothing we can do if we're going to bring the Internet to the Chinese people. One recent quote:"You have to balance the risk of not participating," he said. "And people don't realize that being in the market every day there, and being on the ground, we are seeing changes, on the whole, for the positive." Read More → ^ TOP
Oops! Google accidentally deletes its blog
Google has admitted that it accidentally deleted its own official blog on Monday night. "We've determined the cause of tonight's outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d'oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad," Jason Goldman, Blogger Product Manager, wrote in a posting on the Google Blog. Apparently, the Google Blog was unavailable for a short time on Monday.Read More → ^ TOP
Devil's Advocate: The Email Postage Issue
Plans by AOL and Yahoo to embrace and implement Goodmail's "Certified Email" solution, even with allowances for non-profit groups, has drawn criticism from a broad swath of the Internet-using public; we're going to discuss why this is a good first start if only it extended farther to metering for all email.Read More → ^ TOP
SEO Versus Marketing: The Fine Art Of Copywriting
Forget everything you've ever read, heard or seen about web marketing. Forget the marketing gurus and poo-bahs who tout the need for SEO (search engine optimized) text. The information upon which you've based your on-line marketing strategy is outdated. It is soooo last millennium.Read More → ^ TOP
Google's security woes continue
Google's problems controlling information seem to keep on going and going ...Read More → ^ TOP
Microsoft Faces Another Lawsuit in South Korea
Microsoft faces more problems in South Korea after a company sued the U.S. software giant over its bundling of Windows Media Player with the Windows operating system.Read More → ^ TOP
Google's New Look Through Javascript
ZDNet's "Googling Google" blogger Garett Rogers found a Javascript trick that unveils the occasionally glimpsed new look of Google's search results to Firefox users.Read More → ^ TOP
Yahoo Builds Tools For Toolbar
Updates to the Yahoo Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox provides tabbed browsing to users of IE 5 and 6, and several improvements based on user feedback for the Firefox version.Read More → ^ TOP
Web Site Files Complaint Against Google
Google Inc.'s mysterious methods for ranking Web sites came under attack Friday in a lawsuit accusing the online search engine leader of ruining scores of Internet businesses that have been wrongfully banished from its index.Read More → ^ TOP
CoffeeCup Drinks Print Ads On Google's Tab
The search advertising company's attempt at auctioning off space in a number of magazines largely failed to deliver significant returns to Google.Read More → ^ TOP
Google's Privacy Win Could Be Pyrrhic Victory
Google scored a partial victory in its battle to keep its search data out of the hands of the government. It may be a costly win.Read More → ^ TOP
Dell Abducts Alienware
The Texas-based computer maker not only has a hot brand with appeal to big-spending hardcore gamers, but a line of products with AMD processors instead of the Intel chipsets that dominate Dell's computer lineup.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Hires Fortunate Son
The honeymoon's over when you have to plant somebody in D.C. on your behalf. As dewy-eyed and dreamy as Google seemed in the beginning, the search giant learned how to play hardball real quick, hiring a lobbying firm with a direct line to the Speaker of the House of Representatives.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Finance: Simple, Sophisticated
The search advertising company launched its financial news site last night, with an interesting take on meshing stock charts and news related to a company.Read More → ^ TOP
Town auctioned on eBay up for sale again
BRIDGEVILLE, Calif. - The first town ever auctioned on eBay soon will be back up for sale on the online auction site.Nearly two years after he bought the tiny town of Bridgeville, Orange County financial adviser Bruce Krall said Friday he plans to re-auction the Humboldt County hamlet on eBay next month.
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Judge Stiffarms DoJ In Google Case
What began as a quest for virtually unfettered access to Google's database of search information by the Department of Justice has ended with a judge's decision that the DoJ receive 50,000 URLs retrieved with Google's search engine, and zero queries.Read More → ^ TOP
KinderStart Sues Google Over PageRank
KinderStart filed suit yesterday in U.S. District Court in San Jose alleging that Google improperly "blacklisted" its website.Read More → ^ TOP
Is There A Right Way To Build Blog Traffic?
For every purist blogger yearning to speak free, there is another opportunist blogger yearning cash in. Weblogs share certain valuable properties with Websites, but even if you can get two people to agree on what the key differences are, their goals may not align in why they blog, or the "right way" to generate traffic.Read More → ^ TOP
Google, AOL Need More Time To Consummate
The billion-dollar investment Google will make with AOL has proved complex enough to require Google to move the anticipated completion date for the deal to the second quarter of '06.Read More → ^ TOP
Microsoft Sues eBay Software Pirates
It is likely that Microsoft will continue investigating auctions of its software and pursuing enforcement with the aim of increasing user education, said Matt Lundy, a Microsoft attorney. "By filing these lawsuits," he explained, "we hope that auction purchasers will understand that software offers are not always what they appear to be." Read More → ^ TOPMicrosoft Pushing Hard In Business Market
An aggressive push by Microsoft with its Dynamics products has seen it grow its placement of CRM seat licenses in the enterprise and unveiled a few initiatives aimed at the small-to-medium business (SMB) market.Read More → ^ TOP
Google News foiled by teen
A 15 year old managed to fool Google’s news system into publishing a press release saying that the outfit had just hired him. Read More → ^ TOPFCC Sucks, Says Google Lawyer
The war of words between major content providers and the telecom companies escalated nicely during the opening of the VON conference in San Jose, drawing the federal government into the fray.Read More → ^ TOP
Company web sites neglect search engines and lose business
Many medium-sized firms are losing revenue because they do not submit their web sites to search engines and are therefore missing potential visitors and custom, according to new research by web hosting firm Fasthosts.Read More → ^ TOP
Google and DOJ back in court today
Google and the US government go back to court today to decide if the search giant should hand over records of user searches.The Justice Department asked Google in January to hand over a week's worth of searches. Google refused saying the demand was unreasonable and not likely to provide useful information. The government is seeking the information to strengthen laws designed to protect children from viewing unsuitable content online.
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Flash SEO Guide
Many webmasters know that Google can read the text in their Flash files. Read More → ^ TOPAl-Qaeda Likes Orkut
Apparently, it's not just Brazilians who like Orkut. Bloggers Blog points to "Orkut Home to Osama Bin Laden Fan Clubs" from USA Today, which reports that Google's social networking service is popular with Al-Qaeda sympathizers. Read More → ^ TOPDOJ, Google Battle In Court Tuesday
The Department of Justice has asked the presiding judge in Gonzales v. Google to impose a 21-day deadline for Google to hand over the search records DOJ requested in August 2005.Read More → ^ TOP
American Airlines Flies Subpoena To Google
An excerpt of a copyrighted training video that showed up on Google Video has led American to demand the identity of the uploader via a subpoena.Read More → ^ TOP
MSN Search Goes Mad In March
Another sports-driven arrangement between Microsoft and Fox Sports will deliver men's basketball tournament information to users of MSN Search with the site's Instant Answer technology.Read More → ^ TOP
Google offers MS-style Seattlement for click fraud suit
Google will pay $90 million to settle a class action click fraud lawsuit. Any web site operator who was also a Google ad network partner who can show improper charges over the past four years will be eligible for damages.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Leaks Internal Forecast
Google let the cat out of the bag on March 2 when the company accidentally posted internal information to its investor relations website, the company confirmed in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing Tuesday.Read More → ^ TOP
Will AOL Members Leave Goodmail?
AOL will be implementing the Goodmail certified emailer system at the end of the month. This will create a new email tier guaranteeing that customers of Goodmail get their email delivered into the top of the inbox.Read More → ^ TOP
Look Paw,"Smart Filter's gone Crazy"
Everyday I check out BoingBoing because they always seem to post some of the best stories and news from what I have seen and because I can (No Smart Filter Here).Read More → ^ TOP
Google goes gaga for Opteron
Google has become an Opteron convert despite having Intel CEO Paul Otellini on its board, according to an analyst report.Read More → ^ TOP
MSN promises Google-beating search
Microsoft president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Neil Holloway last week promised that Microsoft's next search engine will be significantly better than Google.Read More → ^ TOP
Developers, Welcome To Fight Club
Programming for long hours under deadlines with an entire company's future sometimes hanging on every line of code leads to the kind of stress that can only be relieved by beating the stuffing out of someone else.Read More → ^ TOP
Searching For Anonymity: Now, It’s Personal
Until the four major US search engines were subpoenaed by the government, searcher anonymity and privacy was a yawn of concern for most, even if there were a few Paul Reveres out there. After complying with the order, though MSN and others promised no personally identifiable information was given, the slippery slope got a whole lot slicker.Read More → ^ TOP
Microsoft, EU Feud Heating Up
The long-running antitrust saga involving Microsoft and the European Union took another nasty turn as both sides engaged in fingerpointing and tossing around accusations of misconduct.Read More → ^ TOP
Microsoft May Use UIMA To Top Google
A Microsoft Europe executive has provided some bulletin board material for Google, in claiming Microsoft will exceed Google in the search market in six months, based on being better able to retrieve specific information rather than just URLs.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Search Records Leaving China
By moving Google.cn search records out of China, the company hopes to protect users their from government mischief.Read More → ^ TOP
Google Breaks Free From Intel With AMD
New servers purchased by Google will contain Opteron processors from AMD instead of models from Intel, an analyst firm said.Read More → ^ TOP
AOL sues mystery phishers for $18m
AOL filed three civil lawsuits against several major phishing gangs on Tuesday as part of the ISP's wider fight against identity theft scams and other internet security threats.Read More → ^ TOP
AMD Legal On Line For Skype
Lawyers at chip maker AMD are very curious as to why the Skype VoIP service permits 10-way conference calls from Intel dual-core processor machines, but only 5-way calls from AMD dual-core equipped computers.Read More → ^ TOP
MSN Pulls A Street-Side Drive-By
The Virtual Earth team at MSN has managed to go from concept to launch in a matter of weeks with their on-the-street perspective of Seattle and San Francisco.Read More → ^ TOP
