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• EU Security Chief Says Searches For Bomb Making Should Be Blocked
  Web search for bomb recipes should be blocked: EU from Reuters reports Franco Frattini, the European Union's Justice & Security Commissioner, would like to somehow block searches that might help terrorists from finding sites about making bombs. Frattini is expected to deliver his proposal for EU states to consider adopting...
• Google Office Gains New Enterprise Credibility
  Capgemini Backs Google's Software Push from the Associated Press covers how Paris-based tech and business consultancy CapGemini is going to start recommending and installing Google Apps on enterprise desktops, a move viewed as a big boost for Google's "office" application aspirations. CapGemini also works with Microsoft and IBM and "influences...
• Microsoft Casts Doubt On Google Enterprise Apps
  Microsoft responded to the announcement of CapGemini support for Google Apps yesterday with a statement and a list of questions about Google Apps for the Enterprise -- or reasons potentially not to use them. Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet has both, and the list of 10 questions/reasons is also at...
• Microsoft Bundling Software, Apps In New "Windows Live Services"
  Microsoft has rolled out something similar to the Google Pack software bundle called "Windows Live Services." Google Operating System has a lengthy (favorable) overview. The package includes mail and instant messaging, search toolbar, online storage, photosharing and blogging software, all from Microsoft. It operates as something of an extension of...
• LookSmart CTO Resigns
  A couple of months after LookSmart CEO David Hills resigned, the company's CTO, Michael Grubb, announced his resignation, effective September 7, 2007. Here's the statement from the SEC 8-K filing:On August 31, 2007, Michael Grubb, Senior Vice President, Technology and Chief Technology Officer of LookSmart, Ltd. (the “Company”), notified the...
• Google Health's Adam Bosworth Leaves Google
  I got a tip that Google vice president Adam Bosworth, who headed up the Google Health project, had left Google. Now Google has provided me with the first confirmation this is so -- Bosworth is leaving the company. Says Google:...
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• Australian Watchdog Has Day In Court Over Google "Selling Top Spot"
  Google's 'top spot for sale' from News.com reports the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has had their day in court against Google. Australian Watchdog Sues Google Over Deceptive Search Ads from us in July covers more about how the the ACCC started its action against Google over ads. The...
• Japan Backing Device-Specific Search Tech To Compete With Google
  Japan to fight Google search dominance from the Financial Times covers Japan's continuing efforts to subsidize new generation search technologies tied to gadgets and hardware, in part to be competitive against US-based search companies like Google. From the report: The Japanese project is comprised of 10 partnerships, each tasked with...
• Microsoft Launches Windows Live Translator
  The LiveSide blog points to a blog post which shows Microsoft has launched Windows Live Translator Beta. You can translate from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. It supports up to 500 characters and uses Systran, but can override the Systran source with...
• Microsoft adCenter Offers Appealing Upgrade
  Microsoft upgraded the adCenter user interface early Saturday morning. Within each ad group, the Keywords tab now shows complete statistics and provides editable boxes so the user can change bids on that same screen. In previous versions of adCenter the keyword statistics were presented on one page, and editing happened...
• WSJ: After Considering It, Yahoo Declines To Outsource Paid Search Business To Google
  According to an article in the Wall Street Journal today, discussing the "no sacred cows" pledge by Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, the company actively considered -- and decided against -- what some institutional shareholders are calling for: outsourcing its paid search advertising business to Google (or Microsoft)....
• Google Actively Considering 'Richer Format' Ads For Google.com
  MediaPost reports on comments, about image and video ads potentially appearing on Google, made by company speakers at the Citigroup Technology Conference in New York this week. However, this is just a further acknowledgment and confirmation of what Marissa Mayer previously alluded to during the Universal Search unveiling in May....
• Tracking Hot Topics On Wikipedia
  Wikirage is yet another Wikipedia data mining tool. This one lets you see what topics are hot by quickly identifying the 100 most edited articles for the last hour, day, week, or month. If you like to track rising keywords and memes, this tool is a fine place to start....
• Screenshots: The New Delicious
  If everyone else is pushing out the quick previews of the new Delicious, hey, we'll add to the screenshot fodder for now. These are from an invite-only preview now out. There's no set launch date for the public beta, but Delicious founder Joshua Schachter emailed those in the invite with,...
• Secret Requests For Search Records Through Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional
  A US district court judge has ruled that it is unconstitutional for the US government to send secret letters demanding search records from search engines. A provision of the Patriot Act has allowed for such letters to be sent to search engines, ISPs and others by the Federal Bureau Of...
• Google Reader Adds Search & Other Features
  The Google Reader Blog announced several new features for Google Reader. The big feature is search. You can now search your subscriptions, including subscriptions to shared items. Google Reader also enhanced the unread count numbers to show up to 1,000, as opposed to up to 100 unread subscriptions. Plus, you...
• Google Book Search Adds My Library, Popular Passages, Embedded Quotes & More
  Google announced several new features for Google Book Search. They include: A new "My library" section that allows you to add books and annotations to your personal "library." Of course, Google allows you to search your library as well You can share your library by adding labels, writing reviews, rating...
• Google Fight: Nokia & Apple Ads Trade Blows Over iPhone Price Cut
  Bought that iPhone and now upset over the $200 price drop after it's been out only 60 days? Nokia's guessing plenty are and reaching out to them on Google via search ads. But Apple's not sitting back in the face of the Nokia ad campaign. Apple has put out...
• Search Diary: Searching For Climbing Holds
  As readers of my personal blog know, I've been building a tree house over the summer for my kids. It's about to come out of beta, with me needing to add some climbing holds to one of the outer walls to largely finish it off. That means ordering some, and...
• Your Guide To The Google Jet
  It's now confirmed that NASA has granted Google's cofounders landing rights for their private jet at Moffett Field. That's a NASA-run airport practically next door to Google, now making the founders the envy of other Silicon Valley execs who could only dream of the same. With the news out, it...