Amazon’s A9 Announces Maps

Amazon's A9 Announces Maps I think this has been around since late June, but A9/Amazon is doing a formal announcement about A9 Maps. A combination of “Block View” and MapQuest, the site is so far unique in offering street level photographs of storefronts along with graphical maps. As I said at the time, if Google Earth and A9 started dating that would really be something. Seriously, … [Read more...]

Amazon’s A9 Announces Maps I think this has been around since late June, but A9/Amazon is doing a formal announcement about A9 Maps. A combination of “Block View” and MapQuest, the site is so far unique in offering street level photographs of storefronts along with graphical maps. As I said at the time, if Google [...]

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Delaware Supreme Court to Hear Blog Lawsuit (Blawgsuit?)

Delaware Supreme Court to Hear Blog Lawsuit (Blawgsuit?) A lawsuit seeking to identify anonymous posters to a blog is to be heard by the Delaware Supreme Court. The case, filed by Smyrna Town, Delaware Councilman Patrick J. Cahill and his wife Julia, alleges that four anonymous posters to a community issues blog “defamed” the councilman [...]

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Blogger Blogs To Be Banned From Blog Search Engines Says Cuban

Blogger Blogs To Be Banned From Blog Search Engines Says Cuban Ice Rocket owner and self styled “Blog Maverick” Mark Cuban has warned bloggers using Googles free Blogger service under the Blogspot domain that the day that all blogspot.com blogs are excluded from Ice Rocket and other search engines is drawing closer due to the [...]

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Google Loses Trademark Case Versus Geico

Google Loses Trademark Case Versus Geico A US district court judge has ruled against Google and found that there was infringement where the terms “Geico” and “Geico Direct” were used in the text of sponsored ads. This new ruling emphasizes that the infringement breach refers only to sponsored links that use Geico’s trade marks and [...]

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Google Wireless ISP?

Google Wireless ISP? Google wi-fi broadband network? Om Malik hypothesizes. This would be potentially very appealing for both for consumers and advertisers (creates more reliable geotargeting). “Appealing?” Perhaps that’s too tepid—more like boom chaka laka! “What if Google (GOOG) wanted to give Wi-Fi access to everyone in America? And what if it had technology capable [...]

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Rupert Murdoch Wants The Blinkx Search Engine

Rupert Murdoch Wants The Blinkx Search Engine According to the LA Times, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is in negotiations to buy the Blinkx search engine. LA Times reports “News Corp. is in negotiations to buy Blinkx, a privately held Internet search company based in San Francisco, according to people close to the world’s fourth-largest media [...]

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Firefox 1.5 Alpha 2 Release : Deer Park

Firefox 1.5 Alpha 2 Release : Deer Park The Firefox Roadmap states that Firefox fans would be able to download Firefox 1.5 beta in August 2005 while the final release of Firefox 1.5 would hit the shelves in September. Firefox is asking users to report about websites which are not working properly in Firefox. (From [...]

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Ask Jeeves Makes Sponsored Listings Available

Ask Jeeves Makes Sponsored Listings Available Ask Jeeves, Inc made its Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings search advertising program available to the public today. It was announced that Jeeves wasstarting the program last week at Search Engine Strategies, but their site gave a Coming Soon message to interested web marketers who wanted more information on the [...]

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Mozilla Firefox Losing Market Share?

Mozilla Firefox Losing Market Share? The market share of Mozilla Firefox browsers is slipping for the first time according to a study by NetApplications. The study shows that Firefox’s market share has dropped to 8.07% in July after an all time high 8.71% in June. Microsoft IE browsers grew from 86.56% to 87.2% during the [...]

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Ask Jeeves Name Game

Ask Jeeves Name Game Looks like the folks at Ask Jeeves are getting a free small focus group on the name change over at Search Engine Watch Forums. The thread is named Ask Jeeves Name Guessing Game and asks the members which name they think Ask Jeeves will choose in the long run. In the [...]

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