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• Blyk And MySpace: Will Ad-Subsized Mobile Services Fly?
  There is a belief, held by many, that there is a bright future for ad-supported or subsidized mobile services. Google's CEO Eric Schmidt has also floated this idea. Now, the long-delayed Blyk in the U.K is live and MySpace in the U.S. has announced an ad-supported model (and a richer...
• Google Asks Judge To Deny Boarding To American Airlines Lawsuit
  Google seeks dismissal of American Airlines suit from Dallas Business Journal reports that Google has filed a motion to dismiss the American Airlines vs. Google trademark case. In that case, American Airlines sued Google for allowing advertisers to bid on their trademark names. Gary Price located the motion to dismiss...
• Google Endings Commission Payments In Europe, Middle East & Africa
  Back in September 2005, Google announced an end to commission payments to agencies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, replaced by "Best Practice Funding." That was to me simply still paying commissions, only under a different name and a more standardized pan-European rate. Now even Best Practice Funding is...
• Google Files For Approval Of DoubleClick Acquisition In Europe
  Just as U.S. Congressional hearings on the intended acquisition of DoubleClick are about to begin, a parallel process is potentiality starting in Europe. Reuters reports that Google filed on Friday with the European Commission for approval of its intended $3.1 billion deal....
• Microsoft Executive To Testify At Google-DoubleClick Hearing, Smart Money
• Google Denies Interest in U.K. Spectrum, eWeek
• Yahoo Pipes Developer Joins Google - Googlified, Googlified
• New version of Gmail being tested, Googling Google
• As US Economy Weakens, Ad Spend Steady Online But Drops In Traditional Media
  MediaPost has two stories today that start to answer a larger question about how the Internet will fare in a weakening economy. For some time people have been speculating that if the economy hits a meaningful downturn or heads into recession, what will happen to the Internet ad spend? The...
• Search And Online As Influential As TV On Moviegoers
  In another piece of research that validates the influence of the Internet on offline consumer behavior, MediaPost writes about a Google-Nielsen study of the behavior of 2,000 summer film goers in the U.S. and the Internet's impact on their decision-making. According to the survey, exposure to promotion on TV remained...
• Google To Pressure Facebook To "Free" Social Data & Planning Google Earth World?
  Two things from the weekend suggest Google may be getting more serious about the social networking threat posed by Facebook. TechCrunch had news that Google is going to open up its social data information, while Google Operating System spotted a post that Google may have plans for a new social...
• Nielsen NetRatings: August 2007 Search Share Puts Google On Top, Microsoft Holding Gains
  Continuing on with this month's search popularity stats review, I'm turning now to those from Nielsen NetRatings, after having looked at Hitwise stats yesterday. Like yesterday's stats, those from NetRatings are from August 2007. They show Google on top, Yahoo fairly steady and Microsoft largely holding on to gains made...
• Eye Tracking on Universal and Personalized Search
  In the past two columns, I've featured the interviews (Part 1, Part II) of where search might go in the next three years. The two themes consistently mentioned as the most important for the future have been personalization and blended search results. Being a user-centric type of person, my...
• The Open Directory's Home Page Goes Missing In Google
  The Open Directory's home page appears to have gone missing from Google's search results. For example, a search on dmoz (the Open Directory's nickname) does not return the home page in the search results. Here is a screen capture: Similarly, searches for open directory or open directory project also don't...
• Your Guide To Countries That Have Banned YouTube
  With Thailand and Turkey both yet again seeking to block YouTube, we thought it would be useful to recap the growing list of countries that have objected to content on the service. We're focusing on national governments that have taken action to block content on YouTube from being accessible...
• Google Unity Project To Build Submarine Cables Across Pacific Ocean
  Remember that Submarine Cable Negotiator job we mentioned being available at Google last month? Turn out Google's not just negotiating for undersea cable use. It has its own "Unity" project underway to run communication cable of its own under the Pacific. Spotted via John Paczkowski, Google plans new undersea "Unity"...
• Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool has Returned, Search Engine Roundtable
• How Do You Spell Google? Man Files Suit Saying It's His Social Security Number, Upside Down
  Google sued for 'crimes against humanity' from the Register reports a man named Dylan Stephen Jayne sued Google for $5 billion. The crime? That his social security number, when turned upside down, spells the name Google....
• Gates, Brin & Page: Top 5 Richest People In Forbes 400
  Forbes released its latest The Forbes 400 list, and among the top ten richest Americans are Microsoft's Bill Gates and Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Gates topped the list at number one with a net worth of $59.0 billion. Sergey Brin is listed at number five, with a net...
• Google 411 Taxi Ad, Googlified
• Search in Pictures: Search Cars, Ask Cricket, & Yarrrr!
  In this week's Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more....
• If You Type Google into Google [You Can Break The Internet], Googlified