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Apr. 11, 2008 at 12:44pm by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Proposes Comprehensive Framework To Protect Consumer Privacy
Microsoft has added its input to that of a host of other stakeholders in the growing debate over consumer privacy, online ad targeting, and potential US (and local) government regulation. (Here's a related WSJ story on search engine efforts to block a proposed anti-tracking law in the New York state...
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Feb. 11, 2008 at 1:33pm by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Buys Danger
Microsoft has acquired Danger, Inc., maker of the T-mobile "Sidekick" device and the Danger operating system and platform. Danger has been hailed as highly innovative and its platform and OS pre-dates the iPhone (the company was founded in 2000). There's a bit of an irony here in that Danger was...
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Dec. 10, 2007 at 9:26am by Greg Sterling
MSN Introduces Advertising On Mobile Portal
Not long ago, Microsoft's MSN relaunched its WAP portal. Today the company is introducing display advertising (graphical and text ads) to MSN Mobile in the US market. (Mobile display advertising is already present on MSN in Belgium, France, Japan, Spain, and the UK.) According to AP, inaugural advertisers include Bank...
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Aug. 14, 2007 at 8:16am by Greg Sterling
Ask Jumps, Google Slips and Yahoo Leads American Customer Satisfaction Index for Search
For the first time, Yahoo has beaten Google in the annual University of Michigan American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). The survey measures U.S. consumer satisfaction across a broad range of business and product categories including "e-business," which covers search. The survey asks a statistically representative sample of consumers to rate...
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Jun. 12, 2007 at 3:10pm by Greg Sterling
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Intel & Others Join Greener Computing Effort
Google announced that it and many other computer and Internet heavyweights have joined together in the global Climate Savers computing initiative launched by the World Wildlife Federation. The idea is to improve the efficiency of computer hardware and data centers so that they require less power and give off less...
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Jun. 6, 2007 at 11:36am by Greg Sterling
BBC Features Microsoft's Photosynth In New Show
The BBC's "How We Built Britain" television series "explores Britain's past through its buildings and the lives lived in and around them." The program (or programme) features Microsoft's experimental Photosyth technology to show photo collages and different images of the structures. Here's an earlier post from around the time of...
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May. 3, 2007 at 1:15pm by Christine Churchill
Free Web Design Tools From The Big Three: SEO Friendly Or Not?
Today's article is a follow-up on our earlier review in which I looked at the capabilities and usability of the big three search engines' free site creation tools. The focus was on how easy each software product was for a non-technical person to master. The three tools reviewed were...
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Jan. 19, 2007 at 8:50am by Barry Schwartz
Search Engines' Test Beds
In Search of... Better Ways to Search at the Wall Street Journal goes through the different ways search engines like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Ask.com use "spin off" sites to test new features. We have reported about all these in the past, but the article offers a nice overview of...
