Archive for December, 2006

New Book Search from Live.com

The Live.com team has released a beta version of their new book search at http://books.live.com/. This release makes tens of thousands of out-of-copyright books available from their library scanning initiative, including books from the University of California, the University of Toronto, and the British Library. They also announced a new partnerships with the New York Public Library and the American Museum of Veterinary Medicine.

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Ask.com launched improved Local Search

Today the search engine Ask.com has launched its new Local Search “Ask City“. The new service replaced the previous Local Search, and merged it with some third party services offered by Ticketmaster, Trip Advisor, Evite and others. Like that, you can find movie playtimes at local theaters, events and restaurantes in your area, easily. Beside of that, Ask City also offers the option to take snapshots or add drawings to a map.

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Baidu.com expands to Japan

The operator of the chinese search engine Baidu.com anncounced an expansion to the japanese market. According to the Wall Street Journal, Baidu started working on the japanese version of their search engine, about six month ago, and also opened an office in Tokio already.
Baidu.com, is the most used search engine in china and contains more then a billion websites and documents in their index. According to Alexa.com, it is also the fourth most visited website world-wide.

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MySpace goes China

According to the Wall Street Journal, News Corp. plans to start a chinese version of its social-networking site MySpace, pretty soon. But the network, that already has more than 130 million users and regional versions for the UK, Germany, Australia, France and Japan, will face some big problems with China’s Internet censorship. Other US companies as Yahoo! or eBay already had a hard time with the goverment regulations. But Murdoch hasn’t been shy about his ambitions. ”We have to make MySpace a very Chinese site,” he said.

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