Archive for the ‘Search Engines’ Category
Friday, December 15th, 2006
This was a busy week for Yahoo and Google as they continue to fight for dominance in the online world.
First, Yahoo celebrated the one year anniversary of Yahoo Answers outliving Google Answers that was shutdown last week after a dismal performance during its existence. Yahoo Answers clearly dominated the market ...
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
Google has been under a lot of fire recently. There are rumors that it is paying money to terrorist groups via Orkut and AdSense while sharing information with CIA and screwing AdWords advertisers by favoring their own products over theirs. Newspapers are complaining that Google is profiting from the information ...
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Friday, December 8th, 2006
It seems that no day goes by without Google having to defend itself. The days when everybody loved Google and its "do no evil" mandate are quickly becoming long lost memories. Just this week, Google's PR department had to come out and explain Google's business practices.
First, Google is once again ...
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Monday, December 4th, 2006
BusinessWeek's Ben Elgin has written a very interesting article titled The Vanishing Click-Fraud Case describing how Google refused to provide the necessary evidence to prosecute Michael Anthony Bradley from Oak Park, California, who in 2004 tried to blackmail Google. Specifically, Mr. Bradley met with Google engineers and demonstrated ...
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Google has made it official via a posting on their blog that they will be shuting down the Google Answers service. After more than 4 years online, a small project that was started by 4 people will now go dormant. More than 800 experts answered questions that were posted on ...
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