SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 2, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: German language
German Data Protection Commissioner Opposes Google-DoubleClick Deal
German official says ‘nein’ to Google-DoubleClick deal from News.com reports that Germany’s data protection commissioner has come out against the Google / DoubleClick acquisition.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 25, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Is Wikipedia’s Community Editing Model About To Die?
Gary Price picked up on a major change coming to the German Wikipedia, where only “trusted editors” will be able to make instant changes to the online community-driven encyclopedia. This change is coming to the German Wikipedia later this year, and it may follow suit on the English version of Wikipedia as well as other […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 10, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Translator
The LiveSide blog points to a blog post which shows Microsoft has launched Windows Live Translator Beta. You can translate from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. It supports up to 500 characters and uses Systran, but can override the Systran source with their own in-house translations.
Send To (German) Car: The New Local Search Front
Google CEO Eric Schmidt said at one point that one of the reasons Google wanted to get into radio advertising was that the company couldn’t reach users during the morning or afternoon commutes. That’s all changing very quickly. Both Google and Yahoo have almost simultaneously announced in-car mapping and local search functionality.
Google Sky: Search The Stars With Google Earth Sky
In Google Earth, a Service for Scanning the Heavens from the New York Times reports that Google Earth has released a new version that allows you to look up at the sky and see the galaxy. The feature is described more here. The new feature will let you virtually look up at the sky, from […]
German-Backed Search Project, Theseus, Given $165 Million Grant
EU OKs German Online Search-Engine Grant from Forbes reports Theseus, a German search research project, has received a $165 million grant from the European Union. Theseus aims to develop an advanced multimedia search engine. The EU will allow German subsidy of the project through 2011. We covered news in the past about this search project […]
Google Desktop Now Available For Linux
Google Desktop is now available for those running Linux as their operating system. You’ll find Google Desktop for Linux for download here.. Google Desktop for Linux was developed by Google’s Beijing engineering team and runs on Debian 4.0, Fedora Core 6, Ubuntu 6.10, SUSE 10.1, and Red Flag 5. The available languages include English, French, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 25, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Germany Rules Against Google On Gmail Trademark, Gmail In Germany To Shut Down?
Google loses Gmail trademark case in Germany from News.com reports that Google has lost the Gmail trademark case in a German appellate court. Google will not be allowed to use Gmail in Germany, like they can’t in the United Kingdom and Switzerland. Google Threatens to Close German Gmail Due to Local Law from Google Blogoscoped […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 22, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google Launches ‘Cross-Language Information Retrieval (CLIR)’
As promised at its “Searchology” event last week, Google has launched cross-language information retrieval (CLIR). It’s now been added as a new feature to Google Translate and went live yesterday. As Chris Sherman previously wrote, Google is playing a bit of catch-up with this initiative; Yahoo has been doing this on a more limited basis […]
Belgian Papers Back In Google; Begin Using Standards For Blocking
Belgian newspapers that sued Google to be removed from its index are now back in, having agreed to use the commonly-accepted blocking standards that they initially rejected as not being legal. Google and the group representing the papers, Copiepresse, have issued a joint statement. That’s below, along with a look at how this is a […]
Google Webmaster Central Blog Jetzt Auf Deutsch
Like the advice you get from the Google Webmaster Central blog? Heute kommt es auf Deutsch. Think I got that right. Two years of college German, and that’s the best I can do. German speakers can now keep up on the happenings with Google’s support for site owners in their native language. Some posts from […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 2, 2007
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Searcharazzi: Global Edition; GSI Acquired
Searcharazzi asks: Sprechen Zie Deutsch? Webmaster Radio reports that a slew of German SEOs has flooded its chat room in recent weeks, leaving many an English-speaking SEO to curse his lack of foreign language skills. Up to 160 German-speakers are now showing up on Tuesday afternoons when Marcus “Mediadonis” Tandler’s podcast commences in the evening […]
Google Germany Gone Kaput?
Reader Michiel Ouwerkerk just dropped an email to say that Google Germany has disappeared. Sure enough, when I go there, I get a holding page from what looks to be hosting company Goneo: The message reads (umlauts and other German punctuation omitted, sorry!) Fur diese domain burden keine inhalte hinterlegt bitte schaen Sie zu einem […]
PublicRoutes.com Adds Languages, Personalization
PublicRoutes.com, a service that helps you find directions from any point in several U.S. cities by subway, walking, driving or taking the bus, has added a translation feature that offers directions in 14 languages, and a feature called MyPublicRoutes, a personalization feature that remembers specific locations entered by users. PublicRoutes.com is available for New York, […]
New Features Added To Google’s Enterprise Search Appliance
A Google press release from yesterday announced that Google has added a few features to the Google Search Appliance. The new features clearly labeled include: Clustering of the results Source Biasing Options – define which sources are more authoritative than others Add languages such as French, Italian, German and Spanish and Portuguese for query stemming […]