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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google touts size of its search index  —  In the latest round of the search-index size contest, Google unveiled an updated index it said is more than three times larger than that of any of its search engine competitors.  —  "We're celebrating our seventh birthday.... We had a pretty strong year …
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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 …
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 …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Windows' development processes torn apart  —  It's interesting to watch the reactions to the Wall Street Journal article about how messed up Windows development processes were.  Many bloggers called it a "puff piece" but now on Memeorandum the headlines that are attached to it say "Microsoft Windows Officially Broken."
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Paul Thurrott / windowsitpro.com:
Allchin on Vista: "It's Not Going to Work"
Discussion: Windows Vista Weblog
smartofficenews.com.au:
Microsoft Windows Officially Broken
Reed Stevenson / Reuters:
Microsoft, Intel throw weight behind HD DVD standard  —  SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp. on Monday threw their weight behind the next-generation HD DVD format being promoted by Toshiba Corp. in a blow to Sony Corp.'s, Blu-ray format.  —  The world's largest software maker …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Intel, Microsoft endorse HD DVD
Dave Winer / Dave Winer's RSS Weblog:
Browse.  Search.  Subscribe.  —  In one of my meetings last Thursday at Yahoo we talked about the icon that Yahoo uses to add items to your subscription list on My Yahoo.  This subject came up because of something Yahoo is doing that is very cool, they're supporting OPML export of the user's subscription list.
Discussion: The RSS Blog
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Don't like our aggregator? Take your OPML somewhere else!
Discussion: The RSS Blog and Traffick
iab.net:
Q2 REPORTS CLOSE TO $3 BILLION IN INTERNET ADVERTISING REVENUES  —  First Half '05 reaches $5.8 Billion - 26% increase over '04  —  New York, NY (September 26, 2005) - Today, during the MIXX Conference and Expo, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) …
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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: Boing Boing, IP Democracy and Copyfight
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.
Discussion: digg
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 …
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 …
Discussion: Microsoft Weblog and InsideGoogle

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