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David Alpert / Official Google Blog:
Searching for music — It may come as no surprise, but I like to search for things on Google. Yep, when I'm looking for something, I always try it on Google first. And sometimes, that thing I'm looking for is music. Many of our users feel the same way, and we get a lot of search traffic …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google whistles a new tune — Google was set to launch on Thursday a new service intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page. — Google Music will allow a user to type in the name of a band, artist …
Om Malik on Broadband:
Google Music, The King Maker? — Google just added music search and 15 minutes later I am hooked. (The rumors of Google Music had flared up back in August!) — The search engine helped me find really obscure artists, their biographies, discographies, latest news, and links to their websites.
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google adds music search and purchase features — SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) is introducing a music search feature that details the work of certain featured artists, the company said late on Wednesday. — "In analyzing our traffic …
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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Watch:
Google Adds Music Search Feature — Google has introduced a new feature that provides information about music and musical artists in response to music related search queries. — The new feature works directly from any Google web search form, and results are returned as "one box" …
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Solution Watch, » InsideGoogle, The Browster Blog, Search Engine Roundtable, The Kelsey Group, A VC and Metafilter
Suzanne Panoplos / visto.com:
Visto Files Legal Action Against Microsoft for Misuse of Visto's Proprietary Technology — (Redwood Shores, CA, December 15, 2005) - Visto Corporation has filed a legal action against Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) for misappropriating Visto's intellectual property.
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Reuters:
NTP signs license deal with Visto … Wireless e-mail firm Visto, a rival of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion, has signed a licensing agreement with patent-holding company NTP, the two firms said on Wednesday. — NTP is best-known for a patent infringement ruling it won against RIM in 2002.
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Techdirt, Good Morning Silicon Valley, The Ponderings of Woodrow, robhyndman.com and SiliconBeat
Pranam Kolari / EBB:
Welcome to the Splogosphere: 75% of new pings are spings (splogs) — In the blogosphere, pings are notifications sent by updated blogs to PingServers. A major issue recently has been unjustified pings, also known as Spings, sent by Splogs. Splogs have been discussed a lot recently …
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Google Blogoscoped:
A Talk to Google's Larry Page in 2038 — First of all, I'm happy you finally agreed to an interview! So welcome, Larry. — Thanks. Glad to be here. — I know you're quite busy, as always. Has the pressure on you increased after Sergey retired? — Not really.
CNN:
Witnessing the Revolution — Hands on time with Nintendo's next generation system. Will it change gaming? — Game Over is a weekly column by Chris Morris — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Interesting factoid about the Nintendo Revolution controller: It's smaller and lighter than you might think.
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Bruce Gain / Wired News:
E-Paper's Killer App: Packaging — The cereal aisle at your local supermarket may soon resemble the Las Vegas strip. Electronics maker Siemens is readying a paper-thin electronic-display technology so cheap it could replace conventional labels on disposable packaging, from milk cartons to boxes of Cheerios.
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BBC:
Wikipedia survives research test — The free online resource Wikipedia is about as accurate on science as the Encyclopedia Britannica, a study shows. — The British journal Nature examined a range of scientific entries on both works of reference and found few differences in accuracy.
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J. Alex Halderman / Freedom to Tinker:
Make Your Own Copy-Protected CD with Passive Protection — Here's a great gift idea just in time for the holidays: Make your friends and relatives their very own copy-protected CDs using the same industrial-grade passive protection technology built into XCP and Macrovision discs.
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed:
Structured Blogging Will Flop — Darn it all, techno utopians are so cute. Nevertheless, structured blogging — the over-ballyhooed idea that people will post to their blogs using different forms depending on what they're posting — is going to be a flop.
Michael Rogers / MSNBC:
Let's see some ID, please — The end of anonymity on the Internet? — Michael Rogers — •Profile — •E-mail — As the joke goes, on the Internet nobody knows you're a dog. But although anonymity has been part of Internet culture since the first browser …
David A. Vise / Washington Post:
Googling Google — A deal with NASA? A subculture of former employees? What's really going on behind the walls of the Googleplex? Washington Post staff writer David A. Vise was online Thursday, Dec. 15 at 1 p.m. ET to dig into what makes Google Google. — In a recent Outlook piece titled What Lurks in Its Soul?