Open Forum: Keep the road maintenance position Nov 24, 2009
Research done by the World Health Organization and Guttmacher Institute in New York published in 2007 make it clear that abortion rates are similar where the procedure is legal and where it is difficult or illegal to obtain (Google it). Rep. (Brainerd Daily Dispatch)
Microsoft, News Corp. in Talks on Web Deal Nov 24, 2009
Partnership Would Involve News Corp. Taking News Sites Off Google ... NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday ... Other publishers including The New York Times are also searching for ways to charge for news online, convinced that they must not give news through search engines such as Google and Yahoo Inc.. (ABC News -- Business)
Seattle lawyer turns into healthy food crusader Nov 24, 2009
If you Google E. coli or listeria, or salmonella or even food-borne illness you'll find a Marler Clark site in the top 10 hits. They do not accept every case. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Blocking Google could hurt Mudroch Nov 24, 2009
Murdoch courts trouble if he blocks Google on news- Internet-Infotech-The Economic Times ... Murdoch courts trouble if he blocks Google on news24 Nov 2009, 1200 hrs IST, REUTERS ... NEW YORK: Rupert Murdoch has spent months complaining that Google is ruining the newspaper business, and now he wants to do something about it. (India Times)
Google acquires Teracent Nov 24, 2009
Mountain View-based Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) praised Teracent's technology in a blog posting for being able to "pick and choose from literally thousands of creative elements of a display ad in real-time tweaking images, products, messages or colors" and for being able to make such choices "depending on factors like geographic location, language, the content of the web site, the time of day or the past performance of different ads.". Founded in 2006 by CEO Vikas Jha, Teracent was backed by , which... (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
San Jose airport holiday traffic down Nov 24, 2009
Google is supporting the free service at San Jose and more than 45 other airports. Parking. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
Android, iPhone dominate US smartphone traffic Nov 24, 2009
Google for $750 million in stock. Most Read Stories. (San Jose Business Journal, CA)
Web sites that show you the money Nov 24, 2009
Google "budget work sheet" and find hundreds of easy tools. One starting place: The National Foundation for Credit Counseling at nfcc. (FOX61, CT)
How To Fix Net News? Here's A Start Nov 24, 2009
Opponents retort: for referencing, you don't fool Google for too long by serving large chunks of your site over and over. For ads and for transversality, suffice it to say you lose readers real fast if they need to scroll down; the probability for a banner to be viewed decreases exponentially: 10 scrolls divide the probability by 100 or more. (CBS News)
U.S.: Chinese Drywall, Corrosion Linked Nov 24, 2009
Google photos for Chinese drywall. Crafty profiteers get rid of their poisons by incorporating it into common items (children's toys, baby formula, drywall) that are sold to unsuspecting buyers. (CBS News)
Erin Andrews Suspect Pleads Not Guilty Nov 24, 2009
Please Google recent murder / manslaughter / negligent homicide sentencing and reconsider this suggested punishment. Add a comment. (CBS News)
Watch Sundays Norwood/Reed debate on GPB Nov 24, 2009
Jason, rather than suggest others read a book on skepticism, perhaps you should google Occam s razor. AtlantasFuture. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Life-Logging and the Generation Gap over Privacy Nov 24, 2009
But if the host and guests can explain, you know, the contribution that Google and Wikipedia made to this movement ... I think Google and Wikipedia are huge, huge things online ... I mean in different ways they've radicalized things, especially Google and anything involving search engines. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Electronic Privacy Information Center: Privacy Nov 24, 2009
1B merger of Google, the Internet's largest search profiling company, and DoubleClick, the Internet's largest targeted advertising company. Information on surveillance and disruption of peaceable protest by the American government as a part of the "War on Terrorism.". (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Google must stop snooping on us Nov 24, 2009
ONCE upon a time, back in the almost unimaginable days before Google was a household name and a search engine clicked by almost every computer user on the planet, three geeks were sitting in the company s modest office in California preparing to meet some possible new recruits ... Google, it said, was not an ugly, monopolistic profit machine crushing all in its path, but a company devoted to the good of mankind ... Could Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page now be regretting it. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
This Email Will Self-Destruct Nov 24, 2009
For discussion about the major Internet companies, including Google, Yahoo and their competitors. Members. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
What Are Web Surfers Seeking? Well, It's Just What You'd Think Nov 24, 2009
Returning to the list of most frequently used words -- I need to thank Greg Sadestky of Poly9, fine purveyor of "mash up" map software, for his help -- "Google" was the 17th most common. While some might scoff at the notion of "searching for Google," it's actually efficient Web surfing ... For discussion about the major Internet companies, including Google, Yahoo and their competitors. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
I'm Feeling . . . Surveilled Nov 24, 2009
Just put your cursor inside that familiar unadorned rectangle, type a name or a few artfully considered words, click the search button -- I never click on "I'm Feeling Lucky" because luck has nothing to do with it; this is all about having mad skills, about Google mastery -- and within mere fractions of a second you can luxuriate in the illusion of perfect omniscience. We Google because we think we must, but sometimes we Google simply because we can ... When we're feeling especially cocky or... (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
When the law chases the Internet Nov 24, 2009
The latest example: a court order against Web giant Google. Google Inc. hasn't committed a crime, but it did argue before a federal judge in recent days that it should not be ordered to turn over some general information about personal search logs to the Department of Justice ... Google has warned that, despite its huge database of information on users, it cannot go down "the slippery slope" of letting government mine that data for possible crimes, both for the sake of customer privacy and to... (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Whose Internet is it, anyway? Nov 24, 2009
Among them are citizen groups, such as the Consumer Federation of America and the AARP, as well as the stars of the 21st-century Internet-based economy: Google, Microsoft, eBay, TiVo, and Yahoo ... Google surely has the cash to pay extra for premium service ... But could Google, a tiny startup only a few years ago, have sprung up in an environment where the established search engines of the day could pay more to buy premium service. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Should Web Search Data Be Stored? Nov 24, 2009
The Wall Street Journal Online invited Kevin Bankston, a lawyer at the , a privacy rights group, to debate the issue with Markham Erickson, executive director of , a lobby group for Internet firms including Google and Yahoo ... Markham C. Erickson is executive director and general counsel to , a lobbying group for Internet companies including Google and Yahoo ... Average Internet users probably don't even realize that AOL, Google, etc. (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Search site aims to rival Google Nov 24, 2009
The Cuil homepage is even more sparse than Google's. Former workers at the web giant Google have launched a rival search engine ... But analysts believe the new search engine, like many others, will struggle to match and defeat Google. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
Citizen Webitor Nov 24, 2009
Citizen_Webitor wrote on Jan 22, 2009 10:04 AM:" Google Street View has visited Auburn.It looks like sometime last summer, and they were just passing through, but Google street view has visited Auburn. Personally, I am excited about this new development. Your city just aint cool unless it's been street-viewed! ". Citizen_Webitor wrote on Jan 14, 2009 3:06 PM:" Ah yes.While there always has been a button where the current weather button is now, you are correct about there being an additional... (Auburn Citizen, NY)
Summer traffic up for Google, down for Microsoft Nov 24, 2009
The lazy days of summer on the Internet seem to be a boon for Google and Yahoo, but not Microsoft. The latest figures from research firm Nielsen Online show a slight lift to Google's audience from June to July, up by about 1 million visitors to an estimated 129 million, the largest population for a parent company of Web sites in the United States ... Microsoft also lost out to Google over the year. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
Inhofe wants hearing after scientists' questionable emails Nov 24, 2009
BY Sid on 11/23/2009 at 14:32Everyone, google this: HARRY_READ_ME.txtYou won't believe your eyes. The very cornerstone of the global warming literature is a scurrilous fraud. (TheHill.com)
Google buys startup to boost display-ad efforts Nov 24, 2009
Google Inc. has snapped up another startup in its quest to sell more visual advertising on the Web. The acquisition of Teracent Corp., a 3-year-old startup, provides Google with more tools for customizing the online billboards known as display advertising ... Google started the expansion into display advertising last year after completing its $3. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Parents demand probe of 'egg war' investigation Nov 24, 2009
I constantly embarrass myself in the workplace having to look up simple algebra on google as well. Paly education sucks/ed. (Palo Alto Online, CA)
Amazon and Wal-Mart Dont Want to Share the Web Nov 24, 2009
The article says, Microsoft has been in early discussions with the News Corporation, the media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, about a pact to pay the News Corporation to remove links to its news content from Googles search engine and display them exclusively on Bing, from Microsoft, according to a person briefed on the matter who spoke anonymously because of the confidential negotiations ... Yesterday, the engineers at Google (GOOG) announced more details for the company's new... (Slate)
The humor potential: The pursuit of happiness only gets you so far Nov 24, 2009
Every day I get Google alerts about happiness. How to get happy, what makes you happy or how to stay happy. (Kingston Mariner, MA)
Google, Yahoo call for expanded online drug ads Nov 24, 2009
Google, Yahoo and other Web companies joined the pharmaceutical industry Thursday in urging federal regulators to make it easier to pitch drugs in online advertisements ... The industry's limited online marketing presence represents a lost opportunity for search engines like Google and Yahoo, given strong demand for online medical information ... Rival Google is proposing a similar design that would list a short summary of drugs risks, followed by a link to full prescribing information. (Yahoo News -- Pharmaceutical Industry News)
Lovitt: Fly vs. drive? Not so fast Nov 24, 2009
On the ground, Google is sponsoring complimentary Wi-Fi at 47 airports around the country, including Boston, Baltimore, Miami and St. Louis, through January 15. In the air, the deals include fleetwide access on Virgin America through January 15 and service on 260 Delta planes between November 2430. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Google buys display advertising company Teracent Nov 24, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Google Inc. on Monday announced that it has agreed to buy Teracent, a startup company whose technology can create display advertising customized to specific consumer and website ... "These elements can be optimized depending on factors like geographic location, language, the content of the website, the time of day or the past performance of different ads," Google's vice president of product management Neal Mohan and engineering director Joerg Heilig wrote in a... (Xinhuanet, China)
Murdoch's Plan Nov 24, 2009
Pushing ahead with plans that could ultimately force Google to contribute to the costs of producing the news content found on its pages, Murdoch's News Corp is looking to remove, or de-index, its proprietory news and content from Google and offer it through an exclusive alliance with Microsoft's rival Bing search engine. According to the Financial Times, Microsoft has also approached other big online publishers to persuade them to remove their sites from Google. (The American Conservative)
Adobe Spruces Up Acrobat.com, Adds Mobile App Nov 24, 2009
Adobe, along with Google, Amazon and Microsoft, are racing to establish dominance in the rapidly expanding hosted-service market a sector that Gartner predicts will eclipse in worldwide sales by 2011. In June, Mark Grilli, group product marketing manager for Acrobat. (SmallBusinessComputing)
Climate scientists accused of 'manipulating data'... Nov 24, 2009
Lord Lawson calls for public inquiry into UEA global warming data 'manipulation' - Telegraph. Tuesday 24 November 2009. (The Drudge Report)
Staff Editorial: Ready for a rivalry Nov 24, 2009
If you don't believe us, a quick Google search of "George Mason University Mascot" will explain everything. We don't know what a fuzzy green character reminiscent of Sesame Street ever had to do with Patriots or basketball, but maybe they can explain it after the Colonials' victory. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
Underwhelmed By Chrome OS? That's Kinda the Point Nov 24, 2009
Citing everything from the browser interface that represents the entirety of the user experience to its and inability to install apps or , early critics have slammed Google's cloud-based OS for being exactly what it is intended to be: lean, fast, and simple. To my eye, all this criticism appears to miss the point of Chrome OS--and indeed, the point of most of Google's services ... Of course, this is nothing new for Google. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
News Corp. and Microsoft: A Flawed Deal? Nov 24, 2009
and other News Corp. publications to Microsoft's Bing will do more to hurt Rupert Murdoch than Google ... Even an alliance with the mighty Microsoft may not help Rupert Murdoch's media empire loosen Google's grip on the news ... In an effort to keep News Corp.'s () newspaper content out of Google's search results, Murdoch's media giant has held early-stage talks to forge a deal that would put content from. (BusinessWeek)
New Source of Online Ad Revenue Nov 24, 2009
That is a big question for Internet companies like Google and Yahoo , as well as Yellow Pages publishers like Verizon and SBC, which are stepping up their efforts to sell online ads to plumbers, dry cleaners and other small businesses, most of which do not have Web sites ... Type the phrase "plumbers and 10036" into a Google search box, for example, and the search results yield not a single listing or text advertisement for plumbers in Midtown Manhattan ... Google, which according to comScore... (Yahoo News -- Electronic Commerce)
Netflix Imitators Are Everywhere Nov 24, 2009
Sills was pleased enough with the service that when he did a search on Google for "Netflix and video games" and found GameFly -- a similar service that rents games for the major consoles -- he signed up immediately ... Google's video-game rental directory lists nearly a dozen competitors to GameFly. (Yahoo News -- Electronic Commerce)
Third International Conference on Space Elevator Systems - CNT Tether Design and Lunar Industrial Challenges Nov 24, 2009
In line with the scope of EuroSpaceward's mission, ESA's Aurora and NASA's Constellation program, this new part of the conference will examine the research status of both NASA's Lunar Regolith Excavation and MoonROx Challenge as well as latest activities concerning the Google Lunar X Prize ... Regolith excavation challenge * Lunar oxygen production challenge * Latest on the Google Lunar X Prize. (NASA Watch)
News Corp., Microsoft said to be in search talks Nov 24, 2009
NEW YORK - is considering blocking Google Inc. s Internet search engine from displaying its news articles and is talking to about listing only on its site, according to people familiar with the matter ... Microsoft is seeking exclusive content to draw users to its Bing search engine in an industry dominated by Google, which has about six times as many US users ... News Corp. chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch said this month he may block Google from scanning and indexing stories from... (Boston Globe)
Google to buy an ad software firm Nov 24, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - Google Inc., owner of the most-used Internet search engine, has agreed to buy Teracent Corp. to gain software that helps online display advertisements better target Web users. Teracent s software selects elements of ads, such as images and colors, that can be optimized for users, based on criteria such as location and language, Google said yesterday ... This technology can help advertisers get better results from their display ad campaigns, Google said. (Boston Globe)
Microsoft attacks Google on books Nov 24, 2009
Microsoft has launched a scathing attack on Google, saying the search giant's rival book-scanning service "systematically violates copyright" ... However, Google allows snippets of copyrighted works to be seen on the web on its Google Books Search ... A Microsoft lawyer has accused Google of cutting into authors' profits. (Yahoo News -- Microsoft)
How Microsoft blew it on Windows Mobile Nov 24, 2009
Google, Nokia, Research In Motion, Palm and others have opened app stores and begun recruiting developers to compete. But if Microsoft was the first player in this market, why wasn't the software giant able to replicate the success it had with PCs. (CNN -- Tech)
Apple overhauls entire iPod line Nov 24, 2009
Dedicated icons on the touch screen give access to YouTube or the Google and Yahoo search engines. The touch screen iPod comes in two versions that have 8 or 16 gigabytes of memory. (Yahoo News -- Apple Computer)
Update on the latest in business: Nov 24, 2009
GOOGLE-DISPLAY ADS ACQUISITION ... Google scoops up display ad specialist Teracent ... (AP) Google has bought a Silicon Valley startup that customizes the online billboards known as display advertising. (KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8, OR -- Business)
Report slams Google Apps' enterprise prospects, Google says: just you wait Nov 24, 2009
A new report by the Burton Group suggests that IT managers that are looking to save money by switching from traditional enterprise software to Google Apps have another thing coming. Google Apps should be seen as supplementary, the report says, not a replacement for enterprise software ... Google Apps may not be the be-all, end-all that some analysts believe it will be, according to a new by the Burton Group. (Yahoo News -- Internet Portals & Search Engines)
BlackBerry Curve Was Top U.S. Smart Phone Model in Third Quarter, NPD Says Nov 24, 2009
Android phones, devices made by a variety of manufacturers that run on Google Inc.s operating system, are winning users as well, mobile advertising network AdMob said today in a separate statement ... AdMob, which compiles the data from requests for ads in its network of mobile Web sites and applications, is being acquired by Google. (Bloomberg -- Canada)
News exclusivity deals explored for Bing Nov 24, 2009
The Financial Times reported late on Sunday that the Redmond computer giant (NASDAQ: MSFT) has approached several large media companies about such deals that could give its new Bing search engine a competitive advantage over Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) ... The latest move comes as News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch about Google "stealing stories" from his newspapers and threatening legal action ... In a report last week, ComScore Inc. said Bing's share of the search market grew to nearly 10 percent in... (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
* American Express takes aim at online payment market Nov 23, 2009
PayPal, a unit of eBay, has been able to dominate in this area, but Google Checkout has struggled, analysts said ... Revolution offers a unique card that seems to blend the idea of traditional credit and debit cards with Internet-based payments along the lines of PayPal and Googles service, said Jim Kim of the financial technology Web site FierceFinanceIT. Well see how the other big boys react. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Patients often turn first to ‘Dr. Google' Nov 23, 2009
Patients often turn first to Dr. Google ... "People turn first to their doctor, then to Dr. Mom, and third to Dr. Google." Suzanne Fox, one of Pew study authors ... Take the H1N1 vaccine: Late last month, the search term "H1N1 vaccine dangers" hit Google's top 10 searches. (Montana Standard, MT)
Report slams Google Apps' enterprise prospects, Google says: just you wait Nov 23, 2009
A new report by the Burton Group suggests that IT managers that are looking to save money by switching from traditional enterprise software to Google Apps have another thing coming. Google Apps should be seen as supplementary, the report says, not a replacement for enterprise software ... Google Apps may not be the be-all, end-all that some analysts believe it will be, according to a new by the Burton Group. (Yahoo News -- Internet Portals & Search Engines)
New Source of Online Ad Revenue Nov 23, 2009
That is a big question for Internet companies like Google and Yahoo , as well as Yellow Pages publishers like Verizon and SBC, which are stepping up their efforts to sell online ads to plumbers, dry cleaners and other small businesses, most of which do not have Web sites ... Type the phrase "plumbers and 10036" into a Google search box, for example, and the search results yield not a single listing or text advertisement for plumbers in Midtown Manhattan ... Google, which according to comScore... (Yahoo News -- Electronic Commerce)
You don't know tech: The InfoWorld news quiz Nov 23, 2009
Vapor was in the air this week as rumors swirled around two products that exist only as pixels, not molecules: the Google Phone and the Apple Tablet ... Google announced a number of cool new things this week ... a. Google-branded phoneb. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Microsoft attacks Google on books Nov 23, 2009
Microsoft has launched a scathing attack on Google, saying the search giant's rival book-scanning service "systematically violates copyright" ... However, Google allows snippets of copyrighted works to be seen on the web on its Google Books Search ... A Microsoft lawyer has accused Google of cutting into authors' profits. (Yahoo News -- Microsoft)
Microsoft, News Corp. talk on partnership Nov 23, 2009
BEIJING, Nov. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- News Corp. has held talks with Microsoft Corp. on a partnership that may result in News Corp. removing its newspaper content from Google's search engine, according to media reports Monday. The talks included that News Corp. gets paid from Microsoft to take its news websites off Google ... While such a deal with Microsoft would be another way for News Corp. to get paid for its newspaper content, the company would risk losing a huge audience if its stories weren't... (Xinhuanet, China)
The Highest Possible Returns. Period. Nov 23, 2009
Google shares begin trading publicly, and the naysayers predict another tech "meltdown." Even today, with the vast majority of stocks having taken huge hits, there are some companies with improving fundamentals that Wall Street is afraid to touch because they appear more expensive than others ... Google is a Rule Breakers choice. (MSNBC -- Business)
Apple overhauls entire iPod line Nov 23, 2009
Dedicated icons on the touch screen give access to YouTube or the Google and Yahoo search engines. The touch screen iPod comes in two versions that have 8 or 16 gigabytes of memory. (Yahoo News -- Apple Computer)
News, Microsoft discuss locking out Google Nov 23, 2009
News Corp, Microsoft hold talks on locking out Google ... News Corp, Microsoft hold talks on locking out Google ... Microsoft has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over a possible plan for the software giant to pay the media company to remove its news websites from Google, according to a report out today. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Cedarbrook: Family friendly in Fremont Nov 23, 2009
(If you're using Google or MapQuest, its 912 Darlington Common address isn't there yet, but the developer's news release suggests 35601 Niles Blvd., which is effectively the cross-street location. . (San Francisco Chronicle)
Search site aims to rival Google Nov 23, 2009
The Cuil homepage is even more sparse than Google's. Former workers at the web giant Google have launched a rival search engine ... But analysts believe the new search engine, like many others, will struggle to match and defeat Google. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
I'm Feeling . . . Surveilled Nov 23, 2009
Just put your cursor inside that familiar unadorned rectangle, type a name or a few artfully considered words, click the search button -- I never click on "I'm Feeling Lucky" because luck has nothing to do with it; this is all about having mad skills, about Google mastery -- and within mere fractions of a second you can luxuriate in the illusion of perfect omniscience. We Google because we think we must, but sometimes we Google simply because we can ... When we're feeling especially cocky or... (Yahoo News -- Online Privacy)
Summer traffic up for Google, down for Microsoft Nov 23, 2009
The lazy days of summer on the Internet seem to be a boon for Google and Yahoo, but not Microsoft. The latest figures from research firm Nielsen Online show a slight lift to Google's audience from June to July, up by about 1 million visitors to an estimated 129 million, the largest population for a parent company of Web sites in the United States ... Microsoft also lost out to Google over the year. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
Video: Al Gore stumps for smart grid Nov 23, 2009
Indeed at Greenbeat, Ed Lu, special project director for Google. org, talked about the company's PowerMeter software being used in a wide range of home devices to let customers access data about their energy use. (EETimes)
