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Google Spawn: The Culture Surrounding Google, includes information and links to ongoing reviews and evaluations of the search engine, guides and sources that detail how to create more effective queries, resources on the marketing and commercial aspects of the site’s services, games and oddities that use the engine’s multi-faceted capabilities, and more.
Microsoft to launch new search tool. According to CBS MarketWatch, the new application will be launched as a beta, and “allow users to search for files and information across their PCs, in e-mails, on the Internet and from other sources.” See also Google Readies Launch of New Desktop Search Tool.
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From today’s WSJ (subscription req’d), Study Questions Whether Google Really Is Better – “A new survey suggests that Google’s search engine doesn’t necessarily provide significantly better, or more useful, search results than do rivals…Yahoo Inc., Ask Jeeves Inc.’s Ask.com site, Microsoft Corp.’s MSN and Terra Lycos SA’s Lycos delivered correct or useful results almost as …
Google Blogoscoped reported on a useful new service from the search engine FindForward that allows you to enter search terms and then request that results be provided to you via an RSS feed.
An article is today’s New York Times describes the new, apparently free, search engine tool, code named “Puffin,” that Google is preparing to introduce for use in locating files and text on your PC.
See the recently launched SurfWax News Accumulator, a “news aggregator with 100,000 topic-specific news pages, covering 4,000 news sources in 86 categories.”
Launched yesterday, with the Google Blog the following description: “Insight into the news, technology, and culture of Google. Get the latest word direct from the Googleplex about new technology, hot issues, and the wide world of search.” As of this evening, there are two postings.
Google may be heading deep into Microsoft’s territory“…Google intends to extend information-searching in many directions: Mobile applications for wireless gadgets, more effective online shopping and social networking are all obvious applications of its technology.”
From the text of a May 3 letter sent by EPIC, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, and the World Privacy Forum, to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer: “We write to urge your office to investigate Google’s “Gmail” service. We believe that Gmail violates California Penal Code § 631, which governs eavesdropping on confidential communications. In light …
The World According To Google. An interesting review that addresses issues including e-commerce, privacy, page ranking and the fact that the company may be “the world’s largest operator of a distributed computer network.”
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