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Jun. 24, 2008 at 10:45am by Danny Sullivan
Google Ad Planner Launches, Offers Site Demographic Profiles
Google has launched Google Ad Planner as an invite-only beta. It's designed to allow advertisers to identify sites with demographics they're interested in -- even sites that aren't part of Google's advertising network....
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Apr. 28, 2008 at 6:46am by Danny Sullivan
Microsoft Paper: Improving Search Results By Mining Web Surfing Activity
A new research paper from Microsoft looks at how surfing behavior -- as logged by a search toolbar -- can be used to improve search results....
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Dec. 26, 2007 at 3:04pm by Barry Schwartz
US Appeals Court Give Google AdSense Patent Victory But Autolink Still Under Question
U.S. appeals court hands Google patent case setback from Reuters reports a US appeals court has partially overturned the initial ruling in Google favor in a patent infringement case filed by Hyperphrase Technologies, LLC. The court supported the initial ruling that AdSense did not infringe on Hyperphrase patents, but it...
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Dec. 18, 2007 at 3:32pm by Barry Schwartz
Google Toolbar Exploit Affects Version 4 & 5
Google Toolbar Dialog Spoofing Vulnerability by Aviv Raff discloses an exploit with Google's Toolbar versions four and five. The exploit comes into play when a user adds a button to their Google toolbar. When added, a hacker can spoof the information displayed in the dialog box and influence that user...
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Dec. 12, 2007 at 9:43am by Barry Schwartz
Google Adds Gadgets, Roaming, & Bad URL Help To The Google Toolbar: Version Five Is Out
Google Blogoscoped reports Google released a new version of the Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer. The new version is version five and has new features like integration with Google Gadgets, a "roaming" feature to keep your toolbar settings on any computer you might use, and navigation error handing features....
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Apr. 18, 2007 at 3:32pm by Chris Sherman
Google Offers "Queryless Search" & Personalized Recommendations
Google is rolling out two features today that subtly but meaningfully enhance the level of personalization offered to anyone with a Google account. And while they're tied to your search behavior, they don't directly alter the standard search results you see, even if you've enabled personalization by searching while signed...
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Jan. 23, 2007 at 9:15am by Barry Schwartz
Google Takes Action To 'Strip' Confidential Information From Google Blacklist
Vnunet reports that Google has admitted to the leak of passwords via the Google Blacklist. But Google has also issued a statement saying that they "procedures have been put in place to strip login information from future submissions." As I noted yesterday, this is not the first time confidential information...
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Jan. 22, 2007 at 9:08am by Barry Schwartz
Google's Blacklist Of Phishing Sites Contained Bank Information & More Confidential Details
Google Blacklist Contained Confidential Information at Techcrunch reports that Google's phishing blacklist, which is publicly available for anyone to see, had confidential information enclosed. Such information included "usernames and passwords of individuals, including credentials for accounts at banks and other financial institutions." Google has quietly removed the information that may...
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Jan. 15, 2007 at 11:11am by Danny Sullivan
Microsoft Live & Yahoo Push For Firefox Users, Plus Revisiting The IE7 Search Battle
Today I noticed Live.com trying to get me to search with it in Firefox. Then Yahoo did the same thing. So I guess a new round of "let's change search defaults" is going on within Firefox. That seemed a good excuse for a revisit how the various search engines are...
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Dec. 25, 2006 at 9:13am by Barry Schwartz
Judge Dismisses Google AdSense & AutoLink Toolbar Lawsuits
Judge dismisses lawsuit against Google at BusinessWeek covers a patent infringement case against Google over AdSense and Google Toolbar's AutoLink feature being tossed out. The case was brought by HyperPhrase Inc. against Google. The judge dismissed the infringement claims, calling the AdSense claims "nonsense" and finding that AutoLink "performs a...
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Dec. 13, 2006 at 7:56am by Barry Schwartz
Google Toolbar For Firefox 3.0 Adds Great Features
Google Operating System reports that Google released a new toolbar for Firefox. The toolbar has many of the features of the Internet Explorer version but also has some features of its own. My favorite new feature is the ability to drag a file on your browser and it automatically add...
