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Sex choice adverts banned from search engines in India E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Sunday, 17 August 2008
Internet censorship has many and varied faces. The latest revealed itself in India as the Supreme Court  ordered Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to stop serving up adverts for sites that promote sex selection services.

 
Boring couple forces Google into admitting that complete privacy no longer exists E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Saturday, 02 August 2008
Has Google become schizophrenic? It seems that way as with one breath it tells us that it takes our privacy very seriously indeed, and in the next admits that there is no privacy...

 
Google index grows to one trillion pages E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Sunday, 27 July 2008
File under really big stuff. Google search engineers are reporting that the Google search index has grown from 26 million pages when it first launched back in 1998, to a whopping one trillion unique URLs today...

 
Sensis lets search engines index Yellow Pages content! E-mail
by Alex Zaharov-Reutt   
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Sensis has finally seen the 21st century light, letting search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live Search and others access “the biggest local business database” in Australia – for the first time.

 
Google Street View could meet Privacy Road Block in UK E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Sunday, 06 July 2008
The privacy related problems just pile up for Google as the first Street View vans are spotted in the United Kingdom and European Data Protection laws are rolled out to greet them...

 
On the rebound from Yahoo, Microsoft buys into semantic search instead E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Friday, 04 July 2008
Many have been asking where does Microsoft's search strategy go if not in the direction of a Yahoo! deal? The answer could well be straight towards the semantic web following the acquisition of Powerset, a 'natural language search provider' for an as yet undisclosed amount. Whether it will be enough to make the slightest bit of difference when it comes to playing catch-up with Google and, yes, Yahoo! remains to be seen...

 
Adobe gives Google, Yahoo better Flash search technology E-mail
by Stephen Withers   
Wednesday, 02 July 2008
Adobe is providing Google and Yahoo! with technology that allows search engines to index Flash content more effectively. The trick is that rather than simply detecting static text and links within SWF files as they do now, search engines gain a way of 'seeing' the various states of a piece of Flash content.

 
How the new Digg Recommendation Engine works E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
Filtering the 16,000 new entries on Digg every day is an impossible task, for a human. However, the Digg Recommendation Engine can do it for you by analysing your past activity and revealing what Diggers Like You have been looking at...

 
Russians more likely to say Yo Yandex than Go Google E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Everybody, it might seem, uses Google to search the Internet. But not the Russians. They are far more likely to use Yandex, the most popular search engine you have never heard of. Yet!

 
Don't Be Evil Google sued for a billion over IP theft charges E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Friday, 27 June 2008
A Chicago start-up business has filed a $1 Billion lawsuit against Google. LimitNone accuses the search giant of stealing its migration tool technology.

 
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