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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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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 …
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.)
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 …
Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Review: Custom Search Engine — Google just announced something that I'm really jazzed about: Google Custom Search Engine. Several people mentioned that Google's Accessible Search was built by using Google Co-op under the hood. Co-op has opened much of that power up to the public, so that anyone can build a custom search engine.
Richard Waters / Financial Times:Google unveils 'custom' searches
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Judd / Think Progress:
Bush says he uses "the Google." — Watch it: — Digg It! — Transcript:
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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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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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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 …
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.
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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.
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.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft earns a mixed report card for its year-old Live initiative — A year ago this week, Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie shot the first salvo in Microsoft's latest campaign to secure its place in the services world. Entitled "The Internet Services Disruption," the October 28 …
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 …
Mike / Techdirt:
How Dare You Make My Content More Valuable! — from the it's-not-so-tricky dept — Perhaps it's not that surprising, but it's a bit upsetting to still see so many people having difficulty with the idea that having others increase the value of your content is a good thing.
