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microsoft.com:
MSN Search Announces MSN Book Search — MSN is working with the Open Content Alliance to bring millions of publicly available print materials worldwide to the Web. — SAN FRANCISCO — Oct. 25, 2005 — MSN Search today announced its intention to launch MSN® Book Search …
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BBC:
Microsoft joins book search plan — Microsoft has joined a Yahoo-backed effort to digitise the world's books and other works to make them searchable and accessible to anyone online. — The software giant said it would work with the Open Content Alliance (OCA), set up by the Internet Archive, to initially put 150,000 works online.
Todd Bishop / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:It will seek accords with copyright holders
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
GoogleBase, Craigslist, Oddle, Print, Oh My — GOOGLEBASE, CRAIGSLIST, OODLE, OH MY — (Ongoing Thinking Out Loud based on the conversation spawned by this post) — So my question for Craigslist is this: Once Yahoo or Google decide to do a vertical listings engine - and they will …
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Fred / A VC:
Posting, Subscribing, Tagging AND Search — I left something important out of my posting, subscribing and tagging post that I did in early August. — There is a fourth pillar of the blogging movement and that is search. — That became obvious to me last night as I slept on Google Base.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Google Found to Be Testing Classified Ads — SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 25 - An online classified service being tested by Google set off intense speculation on Tuesday after a Web site for the service was accidentally made public and discovered by a computer programmer on Monday.
Yahoo! Search blog:
Plan a Trip in a Single Search with Yahoo! Travel Trip Planner — For most people, trip planning begins with a search box. But a single search is just the start of what often becomes hours, even months of intensive online searching, sharing with friends, planning, and logistical details.
Om Malik / Om Malik's Broadband Blog:
The Whole Kit & Kaboodle — It is only October, but you hear the jingle bells. This is expected to be a break out year for the online retailers. US online retails sales for this holiday season are predicted to top $26.2 billion, up nearly 21.9% from last year.
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CNET News.com:
Passports to get RFID chip implants — update All U.S. passports will be implanted with remotely readable computer chips starting in October 2006, the Bush administration has announced. — Sweeping new State Department regulations issued Tuesday say that passports issued …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
First Screen Shots of Riya — Riya (formerly Ojos) will be opening its doors to 10 or so lucky alpha testers tomorrow morning. — Riya leverages potent facial and text recognition technology with an intelligent interface to help people make sense of the thousands of untitled and untagged photos …
Matt / Peer Pressure:
Spreading the Flickr Wealth — Anil Dash points out a potentially unfair aspect of Flickr's (i.e. Yahoo's) business model. Flickr makes the traditional website's bargain with its users, trading free hosting of their content for the right to splatter it with ads.
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Ramit Plushnick-Masti / Associated Press:
Gates Welcomes Competition With Google — JERUSALEM - Google Inc. is fierce competition for Microsoft Corp., but the software giant does not fear the race and plans to upgrade his search technology in the next six months, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates said in remarks published Wednesday.
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Stephen Lawson / PC World:
Google Describes its Wi-Fi Pitch — San Francisco evaluates proposals for citywide free Wi-Fi. — SAN FRANCISCO — Google wrote grandly of the importance of Wi-Fi in its recent proposal for free wireless here, but the search company downplayed its own potential role in delivering Internet service.
John Markoff / New York Times:
Engineers Report Breakthrough in Laser Beam Technology — SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26 - A team of Stanford electrical engineers has discovered how to modulate, or switch on and off, a beam of laser light up to a 100 billion times a second with materials that are widely used in the semiconductor industry.
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Darren Rowse / Blog Tips at ProBlogger:
Adsense Dumb Pricing — Jen has just posted information about Adsense that will be of interest to publishers using it across multiple sites. The crux of it being that Google's 'smart pricing' can actually not only impact one of your sites but all of them.
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Who owns the wisdom of the crowd? The crowd. — There are lots of issues unsettled around who owns what in our new online world where our whole is worth a heckuva lot more than the sum of our parts. — Who owns my actions and attention and trust… but me? Who owns the wisdom of the crowd… but the crowd?
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unstrung.com:
Cisco Plots Mesh — Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO - message board) will launch its first wireless LAN mesh products next month, according to various industry and analyst sources. — As Unstrung reported back in April, Cisco has been plotting a mesh launch since it acquired wireless LAN …
