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Newsletter Archive: 2006

The Return Of Google OS Rumors
May as well put a hockey mask on the face of the Google operating system stories that keep cropping up; another version of the story that will not die contends an internally developed version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution from Google is in the works.

Date: 2006-01-31

Google Toolbar Adds New Tools
Another beta version of Google's Toolbar arrived on the company's servers, just waiting for download and testing by its user base.

Date: 2006-01-30

Gates Has Google's Back On Censorship
Like Google and Yahoo, Microsoft has had to adjust its business practices to suit Chinese government information control personnel, not that there's anything wrong with that.

Date: 2006-01-27

Court Is Cool With Google Cache
A lawsuit against Google's practice of caching web pages in its index was rejected by a Nevada district court in a decision that could impact Google's claims of "fair use" in its Book Search project.

Date: 2006-01-26

Search Should Have Learned From CardSystems
When news of a security breach at CardSystems Solutions that potentially exposed some 40 million credit card accounts to outsiders began to circulate the company was vilified by Visa and MasterCard for retaining data they had no right to keep.

Date: 2006-01-25

Yahoo Yields Search Game To Google
Yahoo has admitted to something thousands of search engine users already know: it's not going to beat Google at search dominance. Game. Set. Match. Google.

Date: 2006-01-24

Google - DOJ Tussle On ABC News
The mainstream media smelled the blood in the water and rushed to cover the now-public battle between the Department of Justice and Google over giving the government access to reams of search data.

Date: 2006-01-23

Gonzales Makes Indecent Proposal To Google
Though privacy has been cited as one reason for Google's battle against a subpoena from Alberto Gonzales and the Justice Department, the other reason, preserving trade secrets, looks like the reason Google has dug in to resist the request.

Date: 2006-01-20

Google Forecasts $6.5 Billion In '06 Ads
In a story discussing Google's forays into other methods of getting ads to users, Google's top sales executive sees $6.5 billion in advertising revenue for the search advertising company in 2006.

Date: 2006-01-19

Google Speaking The Spam Language
Matt Cutts announced last week that Google will take a closer look at web pages in languages besides English, and woe be unto those who run afoul of Google's quality guidelines, available in several languages.

Date: 2006-01-18

Yahoo Gets Small This Week
January 18th marks the first day Yahoo Search Marketing chops its contextual ads down from 190 characters to 70, matching Google's ads in length.

Date: 2006-01-17

Your Share Of The Google Buck: 78.5 Cents
Those AdSense ads appearing on blogs and sites all over the Internet pay pretty generously to those publishers, but we anticipate hearing more from Google on this figure.

Date: 2006-01-16

Trains, Urinals, And Iranian Nuke Mashups
Users around the world have done a lot with the APIs provided by the likes of Google, Yahoo, and Amazon; one site delivers a RSS feed of mashups, so no one has to miss out on the next one to come along.

Date: 2006-01-13

Google Talk Tasting Blackberry
Blackberry users get to use Google Talk and Google Local services on their mobile messaging devices as Google makes its maps and chat available for the popular platform.

Date: 2006-01-12

And Then There Were 3 Google Chefs
Steve Petusevsky's quest to score one of two executive chef jobs at Google's Mountain View headquarters continues, as he revealed he is one of three finalists.

Date: 2006-01-11

Have SEMs Learned The Super Bowl Lesson?
The 24 hours following Super Bowl XL will be the litmus test gauging the advertising world's skill at integrating their offline and online campaigns. Those who've successfully stretched the $2.6 million spent on a 30-second spot will no doubt have ensured their brand's presence in the search engines and have rewarded the searcher once they've hit the advertiser's website.

Date: 2006-01-10

Extra, Extra, Google Ads In The Papers
The Chicago Sun-Times emerged as the latest place to find Google print advertising, after it began its print experiments with a couple of tech magazines in 2005.

Date: 2006-01-09

Google A Victory For Waterloo
After purchasing a small technology firm based in Waterloo, Ontario, Google has decided to expand its presence by adding more staff in Waterloo.

Date: 2006-01-06

Google Box Has Competition
We are at the beginning of the battle for brand recognition in the Web-to-TV market. As the broadband revolution climbs to critical mass usability, there will be little difference between the Web and TV.

Date: 2006-01-05

Belarus, You’re So Busted
Google believers, your homepage is still free from advertising, at least for now. After every Googlophile in the blogosphere cried foul over Google's Belarus homepage sporting text ads to the side, Google replied with a simple, "that's not ours."

Date: 2006-01-04

Google Share Target Soars To $600
The sky may be the limit for many, but for Google it looks even higher, as analyst firm Piper Jaffray ups its prediction to $600 per share of GOOG.

Date: 2006-01-03

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