It’s been two months since Google announced that they were no longer going to engage in search engine manipulation on behalf of the Chinese government. As of now, they’re still doing it: and whatever PR boost they got from the...
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BloodAndTreasure on 14th Mar 2010 (via bloodandtreasure.typepad.com)
My new search engine optimisation seminar Google 4 Grown-Ups was very well received on its first outing, and I'm looking to do another one in partnership with Thoughtbubble very shortly. Click here to find out when the next Google 4...
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Bloggerheads on 28th Oct 2008 (via bloggerheads.com)
The $44.6 billion bid, which dates back to February 2008, would merge Yahoo!, the second biggest search engine after Google, with Microsoft's Bing search engine, which has been slow to gain a foothold in the market. Google's leading market share in Europe allegedly tipped the decision in Microsoft's favour and the merger could create a rival big enough to crush the search engine's ...
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EurActiv on 19th Feb 2010 (via euractiv.com)
A specialist search engine from Google which enables users to quickly cross search and restrict their results to materials from official US government websites. These include military, federal government and local government webpages. The site also offers government news feeds from a number of leading news sources. These include the official military and US government departments as well as politi...
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Intute on 15th Jul 2008 (via intute.ac.uk)
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Google dominates the search engine market, both in the UK and internationally. Although there are some countries where a local search service has the lead (e.g. Russia), overall Google is undoubtedly number one. The world however is full of companies which used to be massive, even dominant, but fell from grace. Remember the days when Novell
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 13th Mar 2009 (via libdemvoice.org)
The European Commission has launched a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's search engine and its search-advertising service
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FT on 24th Feb 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
So. DuckDuckGo. A hybrid search engine. This one though, doesn’t collect personal data. Which many people would say is A Good Thing. What DuckDuckGo also does is prevent what they call ‘search leakage‘… At other search engines, when you do a search and then click on a link, your search terms are sent to that
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SimO on 10th Sep 2010 (via sim-o.me.uk)
Google Audio Indexing is a beta test search engine from Google that aims to enable users to quickly find and access audio materials available via the Youtube political channels. It uses speech technology to search for spoken words inside videos and then jumps to the section of the the video where the words are spoken. It was launched during the 2008 American presidential elections. Although it is ...
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Intute on 8th Oct 2008 (via intute.ac.uk)
Executives at the internet search engine Google may have more than their share of headaches at the moment, but they can at least be assured of a strong revenue stream from the Government while Gordon Brown remains in office.
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Telegraph on 25th Feb 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)