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Amazon to Offer Photo Developing Service

August 22, 2005 0
World’s leading online e-commerce portal has announced plans to collaborate with leading Internet photo service Shutterfly. The web-based service is planning to enter the growing market of online photo developing services and plans to provide these facilities on their webstore, which sells anything, and everything on the Internet.
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2005

Google to Launch Long-Awaited Instant Messaging, Voice Service

August 21, 2005 0
In a bid to extend its communication services, Google is expected to launch a new instant messaging and voice service called Google Talk. Google’s IM entry comes nearly a decade after America Online first introduced instant messaging in 1997 and six years after MSN introduced its messaging client in 1999. The new program, Google Talk, […]
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2005

Yahoo Files for Several Patents

August 21, 2005 0
If you are any ways concerned with social networking, search and IR, you might want to look at a patent application published by the USPTO early August from Yahoo. It deals with how a user views info in a social network setting. After only a quick read it looks similar to what Yahoo is developing […]
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2005

Google Registers two “Movie” Related Domains

August 20, 2005 0
For the fans of Google, here is great news. Google has registered new domains Googlemoviereviews.com and Googleshowtime.com. Although it already offers movie reviews and show times, Google registers a domain simply to keep others away from registering it.
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2005

Google Unveils AdSense Blog

August 20, 2005 0
Following in the footsteps of Inside AdWords, the AdSense team just launched their very own blog. You can look forward to posts around 2-3 times a week from an assortment of Googlers involved in the operation of AdSense – Engineers, Product Managers, Product Marketing Managers, and Operations Staff. You can find the blog at adsense.blogspot.com. […]
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2005

Google Buys Android for Its Mobile Phone Software Start-Up

August 19, 2005 0
In what could be a key move in its nascent wireless strategy, Google has quietly acquired startup Android Inc. The 22-month-old startup, based in Palo Alto, Calif., brings to Google a wealth of talent, including co-founder Andy Rubin, who previously started mobile-device maker Danger Inc. Android (www.android.com) has operated under a cloak of secrecy, so […]
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2005

Go Oodle For Local Classified Listings

August 19, 2005 0
The newest search engine for local classified listings is Oodle. Oodle scans the web to find listings of items for sale posted on places like Craiglist, newspaper classified pages and eBay, among others. It is not just items for sale but you will also find used car listings, rentals, jobs and other locally oriented services. […]
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2005

Yahoo Virtually Tied With Google on Customer Satisfaction

August 18, 2005 0
Two of the most important gatekeepers to the Internet, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), are crossing over into each other’s business with increasingly regularity. They are closer than they have ever been in terms of services. Now Yahoo! has closed the gap with Google in customer satisfaction. According to the latest data from […]
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2005

Google Enhances Mobile Version of Froogle

August 17, 2005 0
Google engineer, Josh Redstone, posts to the Google Blog that they have made some improvements to the mobile web version of Froogle including the ability to sort results by price. Additionally, a mobile web version of Froogle is now available for the UK.
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2005

Ask Jeeves Will Cut Number Of Paid Listings On Web Results Pages

August 17, 2005 0
Ask Jeeves plans to reduce the number of paid links on a search results page from about ten to two or three. The bottom line here is that now there will be fewer paid links on results pages. This will increase the amount of Direct Advertising improving the Improving the search function in consumer categories […]
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