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Official Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Crawling through HTML forms — Google is constantly trying new ideas to improve our coverage of the web. We already do some pretty smart things like scanning JavaScript and Flash to discover links to new web pages, and today, we would like to talk about another new technology we've started experimenting with recently.
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Now Fills Out Forms & Crawls Results — One of the biggest search challenges has long been that the major search engines like Google cannot crawl material that can only be retrieved through the use of forms. Now Google is filling out those form to obtain the information previously hidden, the company has announced.
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Garett Rogers / Googling Google:
The problem with Google Apps Engine — If you are considering taking advantage of the new Google App Engine service from Google, I suggest you read this article first. There are some hidden facts that you should be aware of before making your decision to adopt this platform.
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Royal Pingdom:
Map of all Google data center locations — Data Center Knowledge recently published a “Google Data Center FAQ”. As most other web geeks, we here at Pingdom tend to find this kind of information quite fascinating. We have extracted some interesting tidbits, and also used the information …
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
New chip will let an iPod store 500,000 songs — A new storage technology will pave the way for MP3 players and other gadgets to store a hundred times more information — Mobile phones, iPods and other consumer devices may soon be able to hold a hundred times more information …
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Gary Morgenthaler / Business Week:
Apple's OS Edge Is a Threat to Microsoft — A recent upgrade to the Mac operating system moves Apple closer to challenging Microsoft for overall computing dominance, even in the corporate market — The 20-year death grip that Microsoft has held on the core of computing is finally weakening—pried loose with just two fingers.
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
TiVo patent win against EchoStar upheld — Updated at 11:45 a.m. PDT with Dish Network's statement. — Another court has upheld TiVo's patent suit against EchoStar Communications. — A U.S. Appeals Court on Friday denied EchoStar's appeal on an earlier court ruling …
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Thomas Hawk / Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection:
Breaking News: Appeals Court Refuses to Hear Echostar Appeal, TiVo's Patent Victory Stands — Just off the wire, Dish Network has failed to convince an appeals court to overturn TiVo's earlier patent win against the company. TiVo's earlier win is upheld. — This means that you very well …
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TechCrunch, Homotron.net, Gizmodo, Engadget HD, TechSpot, TiVo Lovers, Tech Trader Daily, Engadget and Digg
Kevin McLaughlin / crn.com:
Microsoft Exec: UAC Designed To ‘Annoy Users’ — The User Account Control in Windows Vista improves security by reducing application privileges from administrative to standard levels, but UAC has been widely criticized for the nagging alerts it generates. According to one Microsoft executive …
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WatchingTV Online:
HULU WORKING ON GLOBAL STREAMING DISTRIBUTION — One nice message from hulu, when I connected this morning from Switzerland. Finally, someone cares about (frustrated) non US viewers.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Windows is a glacier and glaciers don't melt overnight — Boy this Windows collapsing under its own weight argument has some legs. — A few points about this Gartner presentation two days ago, which has raised quite a ruckus on Techmeme. The analysts argued Wednesday morning that Windows …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Gartner Says Vista Will Collapse. And That's Why The Yahoo Deal Must Happen
MacGameStore.com:
Burger Shop — This game is for Macintosh — Visit ReallyNeatGames.com for PC Windows Games — After receiving a set of strange blueprints in the mail, you build an extraordinary food-making contraption and open a restaurant. Your goal? To make food and satisfy customers while you explore …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Microsoft not opposed to regulation of online privacy — Microsoft on Thursday issued its response to proposed Federal Trade Commission guidelines for online ad industry self-regulation, but the company wouldn't necessarily oppose regulation, a Microsoft representative said.
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
GitHub: A Social Network for Programmers — Git is a decentralized version control system created by Linus Torvalds that is used by a number of open source projects, most notably perhaps the Linux kernel. GitHub is a new hosted Git repository service that's being called a “social network” for programmers and with good reason.
Matt Pace / Compete Blog:
Obama v. Clinton: Ignore the Media Hype, This Race Isn't Close — With the majority of primary votes cast over a month ago, March was likely met with a fair amount of disappointment by anyone hoping the hoopla surrounding the presidential race would quiet down, if only for a moment.
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Salon, TechCrunch, SmoothSpan Blog, STARTUP CHATTER, techPresident, Data Center Knowledge and Valleywag
Yahoo! Local & Maps Blog:
See More on Yahoo! Maps — The Yahoo! Maps team is happy to announce the single biggest imagery update on maps.yahoo.com since the program inception. While we've steadily added new cities around the world every month (over 500 now) since the beginning, we haven't made as much of a change in the US until today.
