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Official Google Blog:
Eureka! Your own search engine has landed! — Wouldn't it be cool if you could easily build a search engine on your blog or website tailored to the topics and areas you know and love the most? You're not alone if you'd like that — we've heard from partners large and small …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Co-op Launches — Google just launched a customized search service called Google Co-op (screen shots below). Co-op allows a user to create and launch a search engine with just a few specific websites included. Searches will return results from only that website.
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Lifehacker, Rex Hammock's weblog, Mathew Ingram, SEO Book.com, TechEffect, Things That, Don Dodge on The Next …, Joe Duck, Financial Times, Scobleizer, The Next Net and digg
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Google releases customizable search — A new Google tool will let people use Google's search platform to create search engines focused on the content of their choice. — With the Google Custom Search Engine, announced by the company on Monday, Web site and blog publishers can provide custom results …
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Google Blogoscoped:
Google Custom Search Engine — Google just launched their Custom Search Engine (CSE) program allowing webmasters, bloggers and everyone else to create a search engine tailored to their specific community interests. (Google made CSE part of their Google Co-op service, which allows communities to add their own oneboxes to Google.)
Gadgets, Google, and SEO:Review: Custom Search Engine
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Watch Blog:Google Offers Customized Search With A Social Twist
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ResourceShelf, Frank Barnako, GigaOM, Google Operating System, Colin's Corner and Business Filter
lik-sang.com:
Important Notice: Lik-Sang.com Out of Business due to Multiple Sony Lawsuits — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - OUT OF BUSINESS NOTICE — Hong Kong, October 24th of 2006 - Lik-Sang.com, the popular gaming retailer from Hong Kong, has today announced that it is forced to close down due …
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Techdirt, Joystiq, Engadget, Boing Boing, GamesIndustry.biz, You NEWB, Cathode Tan, Crave, PSP Fanboy, CrunchGear, Neowin.net, Kotaku, Slashdot and digg
Apple:
Apple MacBook Pro Notebooks Now with Intel Core 2 Duo Processors — Up to 39 Percent Faster — Apple® today announced that its entire MacBook™ Pro line of notebooks now includes the new Intel Core 2 Duo processor and delivers performance that is up to 39 percent faster than the previous generation.
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Ken Belson / New York Times:
T-Mobile Tests Dual Wi-Fi and Cell Service — Yesterday T-Mobile became the first major mobile phone carrier in the United States to begin selling service that allows a single handset to communicate over both cellular networks and Wi-Fi hot spots. — The first phones, which are available …
Gizmodo:
Rumor: Zune to Pay You For Sharing Songs? — The Microsoft Zune may pay you for sharing a song with others if they end up buying that song themselves. As you probably know, the Zune's WiFi capability will let you send a song to another Zune user, and then that user can listen to it three times …
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Sprint:
Sprint Launches Nation's First EV-DO Revision A Mobile Broadband Network —Upgraded network will provide users in San Diego with significantly faster upload speeds and a more robust experience than other mobile data networks —Revision A-capable device portfolio will expand in November with Sprint Mobile Broadband USB Modem
Peter Poffenberger / VoIP Lowdown:
33 Reasons why VoIP is Destroying Traditional Telecoms — Over the last 5 years the traditional telecoms' share of the telephone market has shrunk significantly as upstart cellular and VoIP competitors continue to gain ground. But even more bad news is on the horizon for the likes of AT&T …
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IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, dailywireless.org, VoIP Now, Thoughts on VoIP, technology and digg
Steve Gillmor / Steve Gillmor's GestureLab:
TV is dead — YouTube, Digg, and MySpace took out TV a few months back, and now the corpse is sitting up and taking notice. Latest evidence is the incipient obliteration of Studio 60, the West Wing sequel which is terrific and therefore doomed, in favor of 30 Rock, which is not and therefore not.
Macworld:
The PlayStation 3: 24 things you need to know — (Reprinted from GamePro.com. For the original version of this story, visit GamePro.com.) — With all the hoopla and wahoo about Sony's Playstation 3 getting passed around like a hot potato, it can be difficult to keep things in perspective.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Google Wants To Own the Business of Content — Despite increasingly frequent reassurances to content creators, Google clearly wants nothing less than to own the content industry — but Google is completely earnest about not wanting to actually own or create any content. Google wants to own the BUSINESS of content.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Firefox 2 Launch: Interview With Chris Beard, Mozilla VP Products — This afternoon Firefox 2 will be officially launched. In anticipation of the unveiling, here is an in-depth interview with Chris Beard (Mozilla Vice President of Products). Subjects discussed in the interview include …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Edgeio gets $5 million to expand Web 2.0 classifieds site — Edgeio, a Menlo Park start-up trying to redefine the way people list classifieds, has raised $5 million in a first round of venture capital, and may raise more. Here is the release. — The round was led by Intel Capital and included an investment from Transcosmos.
