Category «Search Engines»

Senate Defeats Net Neutrality

In an 11-11 vote today, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation defeated the Communications, Consumers’ Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act of 2006 (otherwise known as Net Neutrality). Senate Panel Narrowly Rejects Net Neutrality – Broadband equality proposal may be dead for this congressional year. Related postings on net neutrality

Subjects: Congress, E-Commerce, Internet, Legislation, Search Engines

New on LLRX.com

Public Defense Systems, by Ken Strutin Pathfinder on the Generic Pharmaceutical Industry, by Sarah Spear The Government Domain: Google’s New U.S. Government Search, by Peggy Garvin Faulkner’s Practical Web Strategies for Attorneys: How to Select a Website Designer, by Frederick L. Faulkner IV E-Discovery Update – by Fios Inc.: Controlling the Accidental Release of Digital …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Legislation, Marketing, Search Engines

The Battle for Search Engine Dominance Continues

The un-Google, June 15, 2006, from The Economist print edition (free online, if you view an advert first): “Google dominates the lucrative market for web-search, but its rivals [Microsoft, Ask, Yahoo] are setting out to change that.” Most Microsoft Workers Search With Google – Do employees at Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google use their own search …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Microsoft, Search Engines

New York Times Optimizes Website and Expands Traffic

Getting The New York Times More Search Engine Friendly, by Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman, June 15, 2006.

Subjects: Knowledge Management, Marketing, Search Engines

From Google Book Search: Complete Plays of Shakespeare.

Press release, June 14, 2006: Google Launches Shakespeare Website. See Google Search Beta’s complete plays of Shakespeare Related news: From Inside Google Book Search blog: “Some print versions of Shakespeare’s plays may not be in the public domain everywhere in the world. In cases where the copyright status is in question, we protect the publisher …

Subjects: Copyright, Search Engines

Google Launches New Search Product for Government Info

Press release: “Google today announced Google U.S. Government Search, a new search product that will make it easier to find U.S. government information and keep up to date on government news. With Google U.S. Government Search, millions of U.S. government employees, various contractor organizations, as well as the general public can easily search across content …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Google Earth (Release 4 – BETA)

Available today, Google Earth (Release 4 – BETA) Press release: Google Announces Major Imagery Update For Google Earth, New Tools And Innovations in Mapping.

Subjects: Search Engines

Internet Caucus Advisory Committee Hosts Discussion and Posts Issue Papers on Net Neutrality

June 8, 2006: “The Internet Caucus Advisory Committee (ICAC) hosted a discussion focusing on the legislative proposals percolating in Congress on so-called Network Neutrality. No fewer than six House and Senate bills are circulating in Congress that in some way address this amorphous policy question.” [Link] “…the ICAC has requested of all its 200 member …

Subjects: Congress, E-Commerce, Internet, Legislation, Search Engines

Google Seeks to Challenge Excel With New Spreadsheets Beta

AP reports Google plans to release a beta spreadsheet program on June 6, via the Google Labs site. “Google Spreadsheets allows you to create, store and share spreadsheets on the web. For those of you who already struggle to organize multiple versions of spreadsheets and other data and lists, Google Spreadsheets is a great solution…” …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

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