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The Official Google Blog:
Google learns to crawl Flash — Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. Recently, we've improved the performance of this Flash indexing algorithm by integrating Adobe's Flash Player technology.
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Adobe:
Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web — For immediate release — Adobe Flash Technology Enhances Search Results for Dynamic Content and Rich Internet Applications — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the company is teaming up with search industry leaders …
Google Webmaster Central Blog:
Improved Flash indexing — We've received numerous requests to improve our indexing of Adobe Flash files. Today, Ron Adler and Janis Stipins—software engineers on our indexing team—will provide us with more in-depth information about our recent announcement that we've greatly improved our ability to index Flash.
Catherine Holahan / Business Week:
Microsoft's Plan B for Search — Moving past the Yahoo saga, the software giant is eyeing semantic search engine Powerset as a way of closing the gap with Google — Still smarting from a failed attempt to buy Yahoo! (YHOO), Microsoft (MSFT) is trying another tactic to gain on Google (GOOG) in Web search.
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Beyond Search
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Once Nearly Invisible To Search Engines, Flash Files Can Now Be Found And Indexed — For most people on the Web, if Google or Yahoo cannot find something, it doesn't exist. That has been one of the biggest drawbacks to creating a Website or application that displays itself as a Flash (SWF) file.
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Adobe Makes Web's Flash Crawl — Flash content on the Web may be slow-loading and occasionally nonintuitive, but at least now it's searchable. Adobe has conceived of a way for search engines to index Flash content, even pre-existing Flash content, without the need for developer intervention.
Joe Sharkey / New York Times:
Bag Helps Laptop Pass Air Security — For years at airport security checkpoints, passengers have heard the refrain, almost a dirge: “Laptops must be removed from their cases and placed on the belt.” — Get ready for a change. The Transportation Security Administration has given the go-ahead …
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Peter Ha / TechCrunch:
AT&T iPhone 3G Pricing Revealed — AT&T retail stores will be open at 8AM local time on July 11th, so be “iReady!” Existing customers who don't qualify for an upgrade will have to shell out $399 and $499 for the corresponding iP3G model. Customers who don't want to extend their current contract …
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Between the Lines, MacRumors, Hardware 2.0, AppleInsider, CrunchGear, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Gizmodo and TomsTechBlog.com
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Anuj Srivastava / Inside AdSense:
We're retiring AdSense Referrals — We're constantly looking for ways to improve AdSense by developing and supporting features which drive the best monetization results for our publishers. Sometimes, this requires retiring existing features so we can focus our efforts on the ones that will be most effective in the long term.
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Search Engine Land, Search Engine Roundtable, ProBlogger Blog Tips, Quick Online Tips and Lockergnome
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Trevor Claiborne / Inside AdWords:We are retiring the pay-per-action beta
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The Social, Google Blogoscoped, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch and StepForth SEO News Blog
Kevin Carmony / Kevin Carmony's Blog:
Xandros Acquires Linspire Assets in Secret Backroom Deal — Today, as a Linspire shareholder, I received the below “memorandum” from Linspire. I have confirmed with several other Linspire shareholders that they too received this same notice. — In classic Michael Robertson form …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Inside Microsoft's Internet Infrastructure & Its Plans For The Future — A few minutes after she delivered a speech at our Structure 08 conference in San Francisco, I caught up with Microsoft's corporate VP of global foundation services, Debra Chrapaty, for a video chat.
Nokia:
Nokia welcomes Warner Music Group to Comes With Music — Warner Music content also available via Nokia Music Stores globally — New York, NY, USA - Nokia (NYSE: NOK) today announced that Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) will make its diverse catalog of new stars and legendary artists available …
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Nate Westheimer / Silicon Alley Insider:
How Twitter Could Be Worth A Billion In A Year — Twitter's not going to make their money with advertising. So how can they be a Billion Dollar Company in a year? — Twitter should take full advantage of their messaging platform, user base and user disposition to lead in the P2P mobile payments space …
Google Webmaster Central Blog:
What are your SEO recommendations? — Posted by the Webmaster Trends Analysts (John, Jonathan, Susan) — You may have noticed that we recently rewrote our article on What is an SEO? Does Google recommend them? Previously, the article had focused on warning people about common SEO scams …
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Hands on: New AMD Phenoms up power efficiency, performance — To build a better Phenom — AMD hasn't launched a new Phenom X4 processor since late last March, when the B3-based 2.5GHz Phenom 9850 hit the market. Today, the company is making up for lost time, debuting …
