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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
GOOGLE ANNOUNCES NEW INDEX SIZE, SHIFTS FOCUS FROM COUNTING — Under embargo last week, I spoke to Marissa Mayer about Google search. I do this often, as part of the normal news cycle, but this time was different. After clearing her throat with some 7th birthday news, she dropped the other shoe …
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Official Google Blog:
We wanted something special for our birthday... Google opened its doors in September 1998, and we've been pursuing one mission ever since: to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. For our seventh birthday, we are giving you a newly expanded web search index …
Alorie Gilbert / CNET News.com:
Internet ad revenue climbs 26 percent — As of June, advertisers had spent $5.8 billion to place ads online this year, a 26 percent increase compared with the first six months of 2004, according to a new report. — This record spending was once again led by ads linked to Web search results …
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Esme Vos / MuniWireless:
Muniwireless market sizing report now available — U.S. cities, towns and counties will spend nearly $700 million over the next three years to build municipal-owned wireless broadband networks. Moreover, the U.S. market will enjoy a compound annual growth rate of 134 percent between 2004 …
Chris Pratley / Chris_Pratley's OneNote WebLog:
OneNote 12 - Working as a team with shared notebooks — First, let me point out that Owen Braun is blogging now. He's the lead program manager on my team responsible for OneNote. He's got a great post up about how we now support multiple notebooks. And he's promising a whole feature on hyperlinks...
comingsoon.net:
The Star Wars: Episode III DVD Features — After breaking box-office records and bringing the "Star Wars" saga to an astounding close, the biggest movie of the year gets even bigger when "Revenge of the Sith" debuts on DVD Nov. 1 in a two-disc set that brings remarkable new insight into the creation of this action-filled epic.
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Sumner Lemon / InfoWorld:
Gmail's long-lost Chinese cousin? — ISM claims its Gmail service preceded Google's — The multicolored letters look familiar. It's Gmail, but there's something different here. — ISM Gmail is a free Web-based e-mail service offered by Beijing ISM Internet Technology Development Co. …
Hilary Osborne / Guardian:
24-megabit broadband launched at £24 a month — A new broadband service offering a connection up to 24 times faster than other providers at less than double the price began a national rollout today. — For £24 a month customers of broadband provider Be are being offered …
James Boyle / Financial Times:
More rights are wrong for webcasters — I teach intellectual property law, a subject that is attracting attention from economists, political scientists and people who simply want to make money. These, after all, are the rules that define the hightechnology marketplace.
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Wil Shipley / Call Me Fishmeal:
Mac OS X Viruses: Put Up or Shut Up (part 1) — All, right, I'm sick of people reporting that Mac OS X is 'mostly' virus-free. It is, as far has been proven, ENTIRELY virus-free. Macs are not magical, and one day there will be virus that infects them. However, I don't think it's happened yet …
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BBC:
Shoppers use blogs for bargains — Consumers are starting to use weblogs, or blogs, as guides to what they should and shouldn't buy, finds a survey. — More than three-quarters of those questioned in the research said they consulted blogs before going shopping.
smartofficenews.com.au:
Microsoft Windows Officially Broken — Windows was broken and Microsoft has admitted it. In an unprecedented attempt to explain its Longhorn problems and how it abandoned its traditional way of working, the normally secretive software giant has given unparalleled access to The Wall Street Journal …
