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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 …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:   Google touts size of its 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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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Statesman-like technology company  —  7/7/99: "Having witnessed the Internet turned into a battlefield, and assessing that at least half of the blame for that belongs to Microsoft, I am in no mood for another contentious, irrelevant do-or-die battle.  This time around either Microsoft grows …
PR Newswire:
UPN and Google to Offer Streaming Video of 'EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS' Premiere  —  LOS ANGELES, Sept. 26 /PRNewswire/ — In a first for both companies, UPN and Google will exclusively screen the critically-acclaimed series premiere of EVERYBODY HATES CHRIS for four days on Google Video beginning today …
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Official Google Blog:
Everybody won't hate this  —  For all the talk about Internet TV …
Discussion: paradox1x and Lifehacker
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...
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 …
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.
Discussion: digg
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.
Discussion: IP Democracy
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 …
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.
Discussion: Smart Mobs and The Blog Herald

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