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Kevin Kantola
09
Feb

Google Seeks Remote Temporary Worker

February 9, 2005
A recruiter called Payrolling.com has placed an ad on Google’s behalf for a temporary remote worker in the U. S. or Canada who is Internet savvy and has multiple language skills. This worker won’t have to commute to the San Jose office and will be engaged in search quality evaluation. It is a bit interesting...
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08
Feb

AskJeeves Buy BlogLines Lining Up to Become Major Player

February 8, 2005
AskJeeves has bought BlogLines.com, which is a comprehensive, integrated service for searching, subscribing, publishing and sharing news feeds, blogs, and rich Web content. The services is similar to Google’s Blogger.com so the “No search engine left behind” agenda continues. While AskJeeves tends to be a follower, rather than a leader, they have a strong following...
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07
Feb

Whois Google and What Do They Want?

February 7, 2005
Several days ago it was learned that Google became an ICANN-approved domain name registrar. Speculation about what this means has been flying around the Internet. An article on News.com states the Google point of view: “Eileen Rodriguez, a Google spokeswoman, hardly quelled the speculation by explaining that the whole thing was really a learning opportunity...
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05
Feb

Internet is 3rd in Counterfeit Goods

February 5, 2005
According to FT.com, the Internet is the 3rd largest market for counterfeit goods behind China and Italy. Because of this trend, Google has lost its second court case in France as the Louis Vuitton group has won €100,000 for “counterfeit acts”. Because of Google’s practice of selling trademarks as keywords, they have caused quite a...
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04
Feb

Yahoo! Contextual Search In Context

February 4, 2005
Yahoo! has just unveiled a new beta, Yahoo! Contextual Search or Y!Q as they call it. This new product offers results from your search along with related search terms right underneath the search box. If you go to the beta search and do a search for “baseball” for instance, not only will you receive results...
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03
Feb

AskJeeves Blog Busts Through

February 3, 2005
Like other blogs before it, AskJeeves has busted into the blogging arena. Erik Collier, Data Engineering Manager, has posted the first of many blog articles (blarticles?) giving a little history of AskJeeves and talking about the company’s recent move to downtown Oakland, California. Included in the blarticle are photos of the new AskJeeves facility and...
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02
Feb

Google Says ICANN to Domain Registration

February 2, 2005
In another effort to diversify, Google has become an official ICANN approved domain registrar. Does this means Google intends to give GoDaddy a run for their money? Maybe and maybe not. This does beg the question, though as to what Google’s intent is on becoming a domain registrar, especially when profit-margins are so low. Perhaps...
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01
Feb

Apple, Google and Al Jazeera Win Branding War

February 1, 2005
The search engine community has been reporting today about how Apple has replaced Google as the brand with the most global impact (according to brandchannel.com). The iPod and other products have propelled Apple into the top spot acing out Google, which has won the top dog honors since 2002. What I think is even more...
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30
Jan

AlmondNet Is No Joy

January 30, 2005
A company called AlmondNet, run by Micha and Roy Shkedi is unveiling a new advertising program that teams up with users ISP’s and a network of website partners to deliver relevant advertising. Now search engines and other companies have been using cookies to track users movements within a website for years. AlmondNet, however, wants to...
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29
Jan

Amazon’s New Tool is Virtually Amazing

January 29, 2005
Amazon has just unveiled its own search engine, which is aimed at businesses and intends to compete with the online Yellow Pages industry. One of the coolest features is something called “Block View”, which shows the surrounding streets and businesses at a given location. According to The Denver Post online magazine, “A unique new feature...
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