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I had the opportunity to chat with usability guru Jakob Nielsen about what might be happening with search in the next few years and he's not bullish read more »
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How do you get started as a pool guy? Chris McCall in Utah used Google Earth to find everyone with a pool in his area, then did a custom mailing to t read more »
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Tomorrow, July 11, Google will be introducing Mapplets for public use. These Google gadgets allow people to use previously created mapping mashups o read more »
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We just released a brand spanking new Firefox plugin/extension that allows you to easily check the Google search results (Organic and paid) as they appear in different countries. Any feedback or feature requests would be very much appreciated. read more »
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According to Cowen & Co., Google will take 90 percent of the search market over the next decade through increased spending on research and development, analysts at said in a note Wednesday. This 'guestimate' is based solely on their R&D Spending:
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Haochi and Flypig present the official t-shirt for Google's Desktop for Linux. read more »
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More copyright cases... Google keeps wining them in the states. read more »
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We all talk to it (robots.txt), optimize for it, and discuss it ad nauseum. But what does Googlebot really LOOK like? Submit your own rendition and win something that's awesome and useless all at once. read more »
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Google has responded to claims made by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) that the search engine giant has been misleading in its handling of sponsored links sold to firms.

Google spokesman Rob Shilkin said: "Google Austra read more »
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Google will shorten their cookie length to two years. Is that short? The old expiration date for cookies was 2038.

Will this be enough for the privacy advocates? read more »
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Nielson's new ratings are making leaders out of former losers in the search arena. read more »
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Nice from Gizmodo -- pictures of at least 30 new cars parked at Google all looking equipped to go out and take more pictures of cats in windows, people wearing thongs, smokers trying to hide their habits, people leaving adult video shops and, you kn read more »
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It is in danish - but absolutely interesting provided you kan read danish :-) read more »
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Google continues to expand: North Carolina, Oklahoma -- you name it. Google's not restricted to Silicon Valley anymore. And when it branches out, it's pushing for tax breaks and incentives. This is a nice BusinessWeek article looking at Google being read more »
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Tamar Weinberg just posted this over at SE Roundtable. I really want an iphone, but my dear husband FREAKED when I told him how much. Now i need to figure out how to break my new pink LG chocolate so i can get one - because my design skills are li read more »
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Hey, Threadless! Maybe instead of saying you’d prefer it doesn’t have the Gmail logo, you could say it will be REJECTED from the competition if it does. read more »
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Modern analytics are beautiful. with modern log analysis and page tagging tools like ClickTracks, Google Analytics, IndexTools, Unica Affinium NetInsight, and WebSide Story HBX Analytics we measure conversion absolutely. It’s a brave new world. As a read more »
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Google's second-quarter revenue rose 58 percent from a year ago on continued strong search advertising sales, while profits rose 28 percent, slightly lower than analyst expectations. read more »
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Doing so helps improve Gmail for the individual user. Taylor said Google tracks spammers that get through, as well as non-spammers who mistakenly get caught in the filters and need to be reported as "Not Spam." read more »
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There are many problems with Google's services lately. After Google Groups had some temporary glitches, some people report that Google switches them to random accounts. read more »
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Details are scarce, but because the release doesn’t boast that Google led the round of funding, the search giant likely chipped in less than $10 million. read more »
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Google always downplayed that the click to call someone feature in Google Maps would be abused by crank callers and pranksters. Now it's gone. No official announcement, just a mention in a support group. No particular reason blamed either, only that read more »
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ImageAmerica is a company which builds "high resolution cameras for the collection of aerial imagery."

Google can now photograph you from even further away. read more »
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(I posted this yesterday in my blog, http://montereyseo.blogspot.com/ because when the news of Google's $4.6 billion minimum bid for the 700 mhz bandwidth auction came out, some serious implications dawned on me that merit some immediate discussion. read more »
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The LA Times calls it a long shot.

I call it the ultimate power play: to control both internet content (search results) and access to it.

-RL read more »
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