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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Google Trends First Look — Google is announcing a bunch of new products today as part of their media day. Philipp Lenssen has all the details. The first is outstanding. It's called Google Trends. Google Notebook is coming next week. My hope is that the latter product is built on Writely …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Co-op: Add Your Own Vertical Search To Google — Google said it would have a health-related announcement at today's Google Press Day — but no, it's not Google Health. Instead, it's Google Co-op, a way for people to create specialized search engines by tapping into the main Google index …
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Search Engine Roundtable, Google Watch, ResourceShelf, GoogleRumors, Vecosys and Micro Persuasion
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google unveils new applications — update MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google announced on Wednesday an update to its Google Desktop product, as well as several new products designed to enhance information gathering on the Web. — At its annual press day here in the Googleplex …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
My Big Fat Google Press Day 2006 Round-Up — We've blogged a number of items out of Google Press Day today. I wanted to recap them below, along with coverage from across the web that's beginning to flow in. I'll likely update this page over the next day, as well.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Will search keep Google on the throne? — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Unlike rivals Yahoo and Microsoft, Google is focused on core search and thus will be the main infrastructure provider for Web services and information going forward, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Wednesday.
Business Wire:New Google Search Technologies Make Information Easier to Discover …
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B2Day, IP Democracy, Niall Kennedy's Weblog, paidContent.org, Matt Cutts, Between the Lines, ResourceShelf and Guardian Unlimited
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:Watching Google Press Day, Slides & Live Commentary
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InsideGoogle, GigaOM, ComparisonEngines.com, Incremental Blogger, Screenwerk, Good Morning Silicon Valley, ResearchBuzz and Valleywag
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Congress targets social network sites — update MySpace.com has recently found itself pummeled by critical media reports describing how teens are divulging personal information without much thought to the consequences. — A Newsweek piece article in January was titled "Predator's Playground?"
David Pogue / New York Times:
Why the World Doesn't Need Hi-Def DVD's — WHEN did you first become cynical about the electronics industry? — Was it when VHS went out of style, and you had to buy all your movies again on DVD? Was it the time(s) you never got the rebate you mailed away for?
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Sony bites music bullet, opts for Apple compatibility — Sony is moving to make its music management software compatible with Apple Computer's audio file format in the latest evidence of Apple's dominance in digital music. — The behemoth Japanese conglomerate, which once controlled …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
New Palm OS Treo ready for takeoff — The Palm OS is about to get into the fast lane. — A little more than four months after Palm released the Windows Mobile-based Treo 700w on Verizon Wireless' EV-DO (Evolution Data Optimized) network, it is set to announce a Palm OS version that can connect …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Next Week's Special Edition Daily SearchCast With Matt Cutts, Live From The Googleplex — I'm traveling next week, making visits to Google and Yahoo before heading to our Search Engine Watch Live networking event in Seattle. SearchReturn editor Detlev Johnson will be sitting in for me doing …
Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Microsoft: Let's Make More Deals — With its increased emphasis on video content, the software giant is slowly refashioning itself as a media powerhouse — During the last few weeks, Microsoft (MSFT) has made several acquisitions to feed the ever-growing demand for content on MSN, its huge online network.
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Rico Ngai / ir.tom.com:
Non-GAAP Net Income Up 41% YoY as Company consolidates wireless Internet leadership — (Beijing, 10 May, 2006) TOM Online Inc. (Nasdaq: TOMO; Hong Kong GEM: 8282) ("TOM Online" or "the Company"), a leading wireless Internet company in China, announced today its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2006 ("1Q06").
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google wireless network goes down during press day — One day a year the notoriously reticent top Google executives invite journalists to their Mountain View, Calif., campus to discuss the company's products and strategy and to answer what ideally would be probing questions.
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Red Herring:
Technology Goes to Europe — More entrepreneurs and VCs are betting on Europe as a place to innovate and invest. — Europe may not have as many venture capitalists, innovative companies, and fluid markets as the United States, but the region is surely emerging as a place to seek venture capital …
Business Wire:
EVE Online(R) Screams with Vivox Real-Time Voice Technology — LOS ANGELES—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 10, 2006—CCP Games and Vivox today announced that subscribers of the massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) EVE Online will soon have real-time, in-game voice communication as the result …
Read/WriteWeb:
AIM Pages - AOL breaking down the Walled Garden — Stowe Boyd and Mike Arrington reported today that AOL's new social networking product AIM Pages is now live. I'm told by my sources that it's still in the testing phase, nevertheless it *is* live on the Web. There is a lot more functionality to come though.
