Yahoo’s Alpha Offers Customized Search Results | Marketing Pilgrim
(tags: yahoo search)

Boing Boing: Uri Geller misusing DMCA to remove critical YouTube videos?
(tags: youtube uri_geller dmca copyright)

AdSense Publisher View Of Google Pay Per Action
Barry looks at the new referral products, with lots of screenshots of the interface.
(tags: google adsense advertising)

O’Reilly Radar > Google is Supporting GeoRSS
Just drop the URL into Google Maps, instant mashup!
(tags: google google_maps maps rss)

Micro Persuasion: Wikipedia Added to Google OneBox
Just add “info” to any search and get a Wikipedia OneBox above the search results.
(tags: google search wikipedia)

Google AdWords Quality Score Impacting AdSense Ads
(tags: google adsense adwords ads advertising)

YouTube adds “Digg this” button - franticindustries.
(tags: youtube digg)

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Davos07: Chad Hurley on YouTube… on YouTube
Some word that YouTube will begin paying users who upload popular videos.
(tags: youtube video money)

Google Operating System: The New Google Groups Is Out Of Beta
(tags: google google_groups beta)

Google Blacklist Contained Confidential Information
Quote: “Internet security firm Finjan will confirm on Monday that Google’s much-discussed anti-phishing blacklist contained confidential usernames and passwords of individuals, including credentials for accounts at banks and other financial institutions
(tags: google phishing security)

Yahoo expands finance section - Yahoo! News
Quote: “The personal finance section will include tips and tools for household budgeting, tax planning, careers, real estate and debt management. Most of the content will be provided by other sources, including The Wall Street Journal, The Motley Fool, Co
(tags: yahoo finance verticals)

Jason Blogs » Wordpress Poisoning Comments with Nofollow
The decision to put nofollow on all WordPress comments, without having an option in the control panel to turn it off, is one that shouldn’t have been made for WordPress users. They’ve gone from creating a tool to making decisions for how it will be used,
(tags: wordpress spam splogs comments blog)

Techmeme: IAC Appoints Peter Horan Chief Executive Officer of IAC Media & Advertising (InterActiveCorp)
(tags: ask iac)

ResourceShelf » Mobile: Norwegians Love SMS (Text Messaging) !!!
1000 SMS messages per person!?! I hope they have unlimited plans!
(tags: sms text_messaging norway)

Exclusive - Yahoo Using Dirty Tactics to Switch Google & Firefox Users? | Marketing Pilgrim
(tags: yahoo spyware ie browser evil)

The Internet is stupid!
(tags: microsoft free laptop controversy)

The Darker Reality to Blogging at MSTechToday
(tags: microsoft free laptop controversy)

OS X-compatible Yahoo! Music video player released as beta - Download Squad
(tags: yahoo music video)

A guide to boredom: Review: GameShark 4-in-1 Charging Stand for Xbox 360
(tags: microsoft xbox360 xbox accessories)

Yahoo!/AOL Merger Implications for Google - SeekingAlpha
Here’s a surprise: A clause in Google’s contract with AOL allows for AOL to do some sort of merger with Yahoo or Microsoft.
(tags: aol yahoo microsoft google merger)

The Ask.com Blog: THE YEAR IN ASK 2006
Ask looks back at the great comeback year they’ve had.
(tags: ask 2006)

Why I left Microsoft - scottberkun.com
Scott gives a lot of insight on the decisions that have shaped his career path, that led him to and away from Microsoft.
(tags: microsoft job career)

Google “Tip” at Top of Search Results | Marketing Pilgrim
Google’s been putting “tips” above search results that point to other Google services, like Blogger. Google used to “buy” ads in its own search engine, using internal ad budgets to “pay” itself, so at least it sorta competed with other companies, and the
(tags: google advertising promotion search)

PRESS RELEASE Nielsen//NetRatings Announces November U.S

» Review your reviews on Google | Googling Google | ZDNet.com
Garret Rogers finds a Google page that aggregates reviews, ratings and bookmarks made accross Google services.
(tags: google review rating bookmark)

Ego Food: Introducing Laszlo Valentino DiBona
Mazel Tov to Chris DiBona and his wife, and their new baby.
(tags: baby congratulations)

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Google Acquires Euro Mapping Company
Google announced the acquisition of part of a business called Endoxon, an Internet mapping company located in Switzerland

NASA-Google partnership ready for liftoff | CNET News.com
(tags: google nasa google_earth)

Google Open-Sources AJAX Toolkit - Yahoo! News
(tags: google open_source ajax)

NewsBiscuit: Google launches ‘YouSnoop’
Google combines services to violate privacy. Woot!
(tags: google humor parody privacy)

MSN Teams Up With Kristin Cavallari, Al Roker, Jerry Rice and Perez Hilton for the MSN Holiday Challenge: Players can win a share of $100,000 in holiday cash giveaways.
(tags: microsoft msn contest)

MySpace Now With Google Search | Google Blogoscoped
MySpace is now featuring a “Powered by Google” search box at the top, at least one element of Google’s deal that has been implemented.
(tags: google search myspace)

Google Operating System: Google’s Plans for 2007
(tags: google future 2007)

Goodbye Search Engine Watch & Best Wishes!
Danny says goodbye to Search Engine Watch
(tags: blog danny_sullivan search_engine_watch blogger)

Why the Boo.comeback makes sense
Tristan Louis, who worked at the original Boo.com bust seven years ago, explains why Boo.com can make a comeback. The reason: Boo failed because an immature internet was forcing it to build services we take for granted today, problems modern web compani
(tags: web web2.0 boo.com)

TVersity Announces on the Fly WMV Transcoding for the Xbox 360: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
The latest version lets you stream all sorts of video formats to the Xbox 360, completely independent of Windows Media Center

A VC: Top 10 Internet Acquisitions
(tags: aquisitions)

Google News Sitemaps | GOOG Shares Top $500 | Google’s Cyber Monday Survey | Baidu Cleared of MP3 Copyright Infringement
Google News is now in the Sitemap program, letting the lucky (or misguidedly angry) sites in Google News ensure better and faster indexing of their pages.
(tags: google google_news sitemap)

Mark Cuban would hate this post, but TechCrunch does such a great job of explaining how BlueOrganizer can help take your web tagging to a new level, that I’m just going to point you to them.
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Microsoft provokes London Tube crash | The Register
(tags: security humor microsoft)

Official Google Blog: Spreading the AJAX love
The Google Web Toolkit is now available for Mac OS X as well.
(tags: google webdesign design coding development)

A couple of weeks ago, we announced the beta of the new Yahoo! Bookmarks. Since then, we’ve added support for 16 international properties, including Taiwan and Germany, giving you the the power of online bookmarks with the convenience of local language: Fantastico.

We also wanted to chime in about our use of symfony to build the new Bookmarks

We’re here to introduce the new beta versions of the Yahoo! Toolbar (for IE) and Yahoo! Bookmarks.

Bookmarks first appeared on the Yahoo! Toolbar in 1999. Back then, the big virtues of online bookmarks were backup and portability - Yahoo! Bookmarks allowed people to store their favorites from across the web and get to them from any computer connected to the Internet