Google Quickly Reverses Course On Flying Solo In China
Although the large Chinese market seems to hold a lot of promise for American internet companies, theres no doubt that most of the big ones seem to be struggling there. eBay recently waved the white flag, admitting that its China business was basically going nowhere. Google, too, has failed to see the same success in China as its had elsewhere around the globe. The company was an early investor in market leader Baidu.com, but pulled out to focus on Google China, which remains a laggard. Still, just last week, the head of its China operations,

December 31, 2006 @ 9:55 AM · Filed under Uncategorized
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Yahoo + AOL + Microsoft = Google Killer?
How do you get three giants out of quicksand? The biggest giant eats the other two and makes a boat from their bones. That seems to be Wall Streets approach to building an apt competitor to Google. Shortly after analysts dreamed of a Microsoft-owned Yahoo, theyve amended their solution to include AOL.Last week, Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen told reporters that an AOL Yahoo merger was possible in 2007. Cohen said an AOL Yahoo merger was one of the more logical combinations to take on Google, cut costs, and combine audiences, and that Time Warner was open to it.

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Idyll Banter: A boy gone before we could Google him - BurlingtonFreePress.com
Idyll Banter: A boy gone before we could Google himBurlingtonFreePress.com, VT - 25 minutes ago… He took his own life his sophomore autumn. He died so young and so many years ago that when I Google his name I find nothing. And …

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Google Hates Indie-Porn?
Its a good thing Matt Cutts didnt promise Google wouldnt be making any algorithmic changes just before the holiday season, as is Googles habit. The online purveyors of indie alt-erotica, who are collectively bemoaning the lump of coal Google dropped in their stockings this holiday season, would have cause to climb all over him.In October, Cutts wrote on his blog that he didnt expect any major changes this year, but I know better than to make a promise. It could be though, that these operators were friendly fire recipients of the newly instituted 30-rank penalty in Googles new war on

December 30, 2006 @ 9:54 AM · Filed under Uncategorized
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SEARCH ENGINE ALSO CONSIDERING EXPANDING NEAR CHARLESTON: N.C. woos Google for facility (The Charlotte Observer)
What’s the price of Google? The state could know soon. North Carolina on Thursday offered the world’s largest search engine a grant worth as much as $4.7 million to land a new operation in Lenoir.

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Yahoo + AOL + Microsoft = Google Killer?
How do you get three giants out of quicksand? The biggest giant eats the other two and makes a boat from their bones. That seems to be Wall Streets approach to building an apt competitor to Google. Shortly after analysts dreamed of a Microsoft-owned Yahoo, theyve amended their solution to include AOL.Last week, Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen told reporters that an AOL Yahoo merger was possible in 2007. Cohen said an AOL Yahoo merger was one of the more logical combinations to take on Google, cut costs, and combine audiences, and that Time Warner was open to it.

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N.C. pursues Google division expansion (The Charlotte Observer)
North Carolina on Thursday approved a grant worth as much as $4.7 million to win expansion from a division of Google.

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Google Blog Search increases 168 percent in market share (dmnews.com)
Data from Internet monitor Hitwise shows Google Blog Search has surpassed Technorati in market share of visits for the week ending Dec. 23, 2006.

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Google to expand newspaper ads experiment - Guardian Unlimited
ADOTASGoogle to expand newspaper ads experimentGuardian Unlimited, UK - 33 minutes agoGoogle is to expand its newspaper ad programme, after the better-than-expected success of its two-month test, working with 100 advertisers and 66 newspapers. … Google to Kickstart Traditional, Online Media Meld in 2007 ADOTASGoogle Extends Newspaper Program MediaPost PublicationsGoogle to expand newspaper ad program People’s Daily Onlineeditorsweblog.org - Editor & Publisherall 13 news articles

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Beyond Search: Google Specialty Services - PC World
Beyond Search: Google Specialty ServicesPC World - 44 minutes agoEven people who have never opened a Web browser in their life know about Google–but the undisputed king of search is about much more than just keywords, text … Clicking on a Trip Through the Wild, Wild Web Canton Repository (subscription)Experts say Australian copyright ruling has international … Pittsburgh Post Gazetteall 3 news articles

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