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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
No booze or jokes for Googlers in China — Google's new China search engine not only censors many Web sites that question the Chinese government, but it goes further than similar services from Microsoft and Yahoo by targeting teen pregnancy, homosexuality, dating, beer and jokes.
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Search Engine Watch Blog, Google Blogoscoped, Blogger News Network and mathewingram.com/work
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Google admits online stumble — Google Inc., trying to extend its dominance of Internet search into the market for videos, said it made a mistake with the design of an online store. — Shows for sale weren't well promoted on the home page of Google Video, which was introduced earlier this month …
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
In Case About Google's Secrets, Yours Are Safe — The Justice Department went to court last week to try to force Google, by far the world's largest Internet search engine, to turn over an entire week's worth of searches. The move, which Google is fighting, has alarmed its users …
Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:Testing the "Castrated" Google
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...My heart's in Accra, Joho the Blog, Between the Lines, B.L. Ochman's weblog and KnowProSE.com
Jenstar / JenSense:
Google AdSense begins rich media beta test — Google AdSense is moving beyond the traditional text and graphical advertising to rich media, including interstitials, expanding ads and floating ads. AdSense began contacting publishers last week to be involved in the rich media limited beta test.
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Jenstar / JenSense:
AdSense silently adds a 90-day time limit on AdSense referrals — A thread over at DigitalPoint points out that Google AdSense has quietly added a new term to all AdSense referrals generated by a publisher. They have now instituted a 90-day time limit on that referral …
web2.wsj2.com:
TRUST AND PRIVACY IN WEB 2.0: MICROSOFT, SEARCH, AND THE DOJ — As I write this I'm sitting here in the front row next to Robert Scoble at Microsoft Search Champs listening to a great talk by Microsoft Fellow Gary Flake about the Internet Singularity and today's announcement of Live Labs …
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Ben Charny / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Blogs Make Room for Ads — Microsoft's MSN Spaces blogging features are set for a major upgrade to incorporate a revenue-sharing advertising option and a new partnership with Amazon.com, according to various sources. — What Liveside.Net, and other Microsoft watchers are describing …
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Kevin Rose / Digg Blog:
Digg & Yahoo! — Yesterday, I saw a couple digg stories reporting rumors about Yahoo! acquiring digg - I posted a small comment on digg dispelling the rumors and thought that was the end of it. Then, I woke up this morning to see TechCrunch (great site btw), CNN, CNET, and a few others fueling the rumors.
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Thomas Hawk's Digital …, the j. botter weblog, A View from the Isle, B2Day and ben barren
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Anne 2.0:
An OPML Answer to "Where are the Women in Tech Blogging?" — BlogHer's getting ready for the Monday launch of a new surfing guide. As one of two contributing editors in the Technology & Web domain, I'll be covering women blogging about tech. — misbehaving.net has one of the best blogrolls around listing women tech bloggers.
JIM / ENCYCLOPEDIA HANASIANA:
THE STORY DOESN'T CARE: AN INTERVIEW WITH SEAN STEWART — As I mentioned earlier in the week, I'm interested in alternate reality games, not just as an advertising journalist, but as a writer. While working on a recent story for Creativity, I did a long phone interview with sci-fi novelist …
Reuters:
Mobile phone boom set to continue in 2006: survey — LONDON (Reuters) - Global shipments of mobile phones soared in 2005 and will continue to grow in 2006 on the back of strong demand from emerging economies, which snapped up half of all handsets last year, a survey showed on Thursday.
Guy Kawasaki / Let the Good Times Roll:
The Art of Bootstrapping — Someone once told me that the probability of an entrepreneur getting venture capital is the same as getting struck by lightning while standing at the bottom of a swimming pool on a sunny day. This may be too optimistic. — Let's say that you can't raise money …
Umair / Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab:
The Problems With 2.0, pt 345314 — I luv Memeorandum and all it's reconstructor cousins. It's one of the first things of my reading list. It's hugely slashed my search costs in finding new stuff. — But there's a problem. Ever since I've started using it to the point where it replaces …
Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Yahoo's New CPO Loves His Mac — You might have worked for the company for a decade, but that doesn't mean you will get a new cappuccino machine. It does mean that you get a new ID card, that says you have worked for the company for 10 years, and it also means you get a new gig.
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Search Engine Watch Blog, Hitchhiker's Guide to 650, Message, VoIP Watch, The Kelsey Group and Andrew Lark
