Archive for January, 2007
The Belgian editors group, Copiepresse, accuses Yahoo of violating copyright laws by giving Internet users access to archived newspaper articles which the papers themselves would now charge people to read. The Copiepresse lawyer has sent a formal notice to Yahoo! yesterday, without taking any legal actions yet. In September 2006, Google had to remove all content from Copiepresse based on a court order.
January 19th, 2007
According to an article in the “Neue Zurcher Zeitung“, Google has rented a new office space in Zurich / Swiss. The building, with a space of more than 120,000 square feet and an option on further 50,000 square feet, will be the largest Google Location outside the USA. It has been rented for the next 10 years, and offers enough space for up to 1.600 employees.
January 17th, 2007
comScore Networks today released its monthly Search analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In December 2006, Google Sites captured 47.3 percent of the U.S. search market, gaining 0.4 share points from the previous month. Yahoo! Sites grew 0.3 share points, maintaining its second place ranking with 28.5 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (10.5 percent), Ask Network (5.4 percent) and Time Warner Network (4.9 percent).Â
Americans conducted 6.7 billion searches online in December, up 1 percent versus November. Annual growth rates in search query volume remained strong with a 30-percent increase since the same month a year ago.
Google Sites led the pack with 3.2 billion search queries performed, followed by Yahoo Sites (1.9 billion), MSN-Microsoft (713 million), Ask Network (363 million), and Time Warner Network (335 million).
January 16th, 2007
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Seems, that DMOZ.org is accepting new site submissions again. After a lot of technical problems lately, DMOZ has disabled site suggestions and also most editor functions. Here is a status update from the Resource Zone Forum:
“The Site Suggestion, Update Listing, Editor Reinstatement, and Forgotten Password forms are available again. New editor applications are still disabled and we are still not able to check on the statuses of previous applications. As well, the public abuse reporting system, editor feedback, and any other feature for which the “Service Temporarily Unavailable” message is still appearing are still not available. We have no ETA for the return of the features which are still down. Please be patient and, again, we ask that you not start threads asking when those forms will be available again–we will update this announcement when we have further information.”
I hope the problems are over now!
January 15th, 2007
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Mediasurface has announced the launch of a connector to the Google Search Appliance for its Morello content management system.
“Mediasurface and Google have signed a distribution agreement in which Mediasurface will bundle the Google Search Appliance with Morello, its award winning web content management system enabling the two organisations to provide best of breed web content management and corporate-strength search facilities in one offering.
As part of the agreement, an interface between Morello and the Google Search Appliance has been developed; enabling Morello to use the Google Search Appliance to deliver highly relevant search results.
The Google Search Appliance delivers similar results for enterprise information that Google.com achieves for information on the internet. As an integrated hardware and software product, it searches content and other data stored on a company’s web servers, file servers, content and document management systems, relational databases and business applications and makes it instantly available from a single familiar search box.”
January 10th, 2007
Yahoo! announced the release of their new mobile search platform oneSearch. The new service is optimized for the requirements of todays mobil devices - limited bandwidth, small screen size and time.
“Our goal with this release is to provide a rich set of relevant content for a given query from a number of different categories of results. The new display therefore demonstrates significant vertical integration on the mobile search result page to bring back more direct results. We’re already doing this on the web search results pages. For example, you see a shortcut for news or images in addition to web results where it is likely you would be interested in seeing those items.
In addition to providing relevant links to web and mobile web sites, the new mobile search provides immediate answers for business listings, movies, sports, news, events, celebrity gossip, stock/finance information, and so on, all from a single search. If the query term is “ipod”, the top of the result page includes results from Yahoo! Shopping, with prices and reviews, which could help the user who’s considering a purchase. A search for “San Francisco” will return weather, traffic information, and local news.” says Paul Yiu of Yahoo! Search.
January 9th, 2007
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