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Nick / Rough Type:
I'm with Google  —  A Kansas startup named Kozoru has been making big claims about how it's going to revolutionize internet searching for about a year now, while also bouncing between putative business models.  At the Web 2.0 conference in October, the company's founder, John Flowers …
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Dave Rosenberg / Open Resource:
Google bans Kozoru from searching
Discussion: AC/OS
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:   Banned by Google — ignored by blogosphere
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
PREDICTIONS 2006  —  This post marks my third year of making predictions for the coming year.  I'm emboldened by not failing utterly in the past two years (well, for the most part), but I am sure this will only ensure that these prognostications will prove immeasurably off the mark.
Discussion: InsideGoogle, Filtered and Lifeblog
FactoryJoe / FactoryCity:
Revving a classic cliché  —  So there's been some more talk lately about Flock and extensions and relevancy and Performancing's new blogging tool for Firefox.  I'm all for it.  The more we talk about open source, about Firefox, about Flock, about coming up with better, cooler …
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Julia Angwin / Wall Street Journal:
Bumpy Road Led to Alliance Of AOL, Google  —  Two weeks ago, when Time Warner Inc. was on the cusp of signing a sweeping online deal with Microsoft Corp., a team of executives from the media company's AOL unit traveled to Microsoft's headquarters in Redmond, Wash., to make sure everything was in order.
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Bloomberg:
French Parliament Votes to Allow Web File Sharing (Update1)  —  Dec. 22 (Bloomberg) — The French Parliament voted last night to allow free sharing of music and movies on the Internet, setting up a conflict with both the French government and with media companies.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Wink Launches  —  The Wink user-enhanced search engine, in private beta for the last few months, launches Thursday morning to the world.  —  Wink has evolved substantially since my October 12, 2005 review.  —  Wink is, at its core, a combination of traditional search with feature-rich social bookmarking.
Read/WriteWeb:
Best Web Companies and Innovators of 2005  —  Last year about this time I did a post celebrating the best Web companies of 2004.  I was planning on doing a mega version of that this year, extending it to software and services.  But then Dion came up with his excellent list of best Web software of '05 …
Discussion: ben barren and Signal vs. Noise
BBC:
Microsoft may face daily EU fine  —  The European Commission has threatened to fine Microsoft up to 2m euros (£1.36m; $2.4m) a day until it gives rivals more access to its systems.  —  Brussels said the software giant had failed to supply adequate information about its server programs.
Matt Brett:
The New Standard Feed Icon  —  On December 14, the Microsoft RSS Team made an announcement on their blog.  This announcement is extremely important on many levels and I'm really surprised there hasn't been more talk about it.  And as such, I figured I would take this opportunity to jump …
Andy Hagans / Performancing.com:
Buying Blogs: The Blog Buying Checklist  —  Today I bought a Poker blog from SitePoint.  Blog auctions are becoming more and more common, and they can be a great way to get a head start on turning a profit.  But there's a lot of snake oil out there.  So I thought for today's post I could walk …
Pamela Parker / ClickZ:
Search Marketing After the Google, AOL Deal  —  The expanded alliance between Google and America Online brings new possibilities for search marketers; both the potential to add graphics to paid listings and buy ads from AOL directly.  It also keeps Microsoft's MSN in the also-ran position …
Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
The sparring and spin of the Google dance  —  How unscrupulous firms are manipulating world's leading search engine  —  It is known as the Google dance, a delicate struggle between technicians at the world's largest internet search engine and the spin doctors who manipulate the worldwide web for commercial ends.
Discussion: Matt Cutts
Rob Bushway / Tablet PC MVP:
Results of M200 vs X41 comparison  —  I just love technology.  I especially love getting my hands on gadgets, playing with them, figuring out what works / doesn't work - especially for my customers.  —  I've been putting the Thinkpad X41 Table PC through its paces since last Friday …
Kevin C. Tofel / HD Beat:
HDTV over WiFi: 802.11a helps  —  No, we're never satisfied.  You'd think that just having the ability to stream HDTV overWiFi would be good enough, but it's not.  We want it to be flawless; no hiccups, stutters, pixelation, nothing.Since we don't have a hard-wired Ethernet solution …
Discussion: Thomas Hawk's Digital … and digg
Kevin / Personal Made Public:
Sorting your email with GMail  —  Ever needed to submit a valid email address to register for access to a website or make an online purchase?  Ever wondered if in doing so your address wouldn't end up sold to or stolen by some spammer.  Ever wondered who your address gets shared with?
Discussion: The Consumerist and Lifehacker
Jack Loechner / MediaPost Publications:
Mature Audience Are Core Viewers for Streaming Media  —  Mature Audience Are Core Viewers for Streaming Media  —  According to a new report from comScore Networks entitled "State of the Consumer Streaming Market," consumers between the ages of 35 and 54 years old accounted for more than 45 percent …

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