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Imagine being able to check instantly whether or not statements made by politicians were correct. That is the sort of service Google boss Eric Schmidt believes the Internet will offer within five years.
Politicians have yet to appreciate the impact of the online world, which will also affect the outcome of elections, Schmidt said in an interview with the Financial Times published on Wednesday.
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Telecom today confirmed it is tendering out its partnership with its internet service Xtra, currently run with Microsoft’s MSN. Media reports indicate MSN is likely to be replaced by Yahoo in a deal that could be tied to the sale of Telecom’s directories unit.
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Search engine Google Inc. on Thursday launched an Australian version of its video hosting site, Google Video, that will include content from domestic media groups.
The site follows will offer video snippets posted by the public as well as material from media companies including the Australian Broadcasting Corp., television’s Network Ten television and newspaper company Fairfax Digital.
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The NZ Online Ad Market – just how big is it?
Access to the Internet in New Zealand ranks among the highest in the OECD with 80% of the population accessing the Internet and over 60% using it regularly1. A recent study commissioned by the Internet Bureau through Roy Morgan, reports that “NZ agencies say they are already allocating an average of 8% of their media budgets to online, and intend to allocate an average of 12% to online in 2006- 2007. That’s a far cry from being the ‘online laggards’ that agencies have sometimes been painted as being.”
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By Shari Thurow
September 27, 2006
Most of the major search engines have research units and live testing grounds for new products and features. What kinds of projects are they currently working on?
A special report from the Search Engine Strategies conference, August 7-10, 2006, San Jose, CA.
Discussing new and forthcoming developments at the search engine laboratories were panelists James Colburn, Product Manager of adCenter, MSN Search; Bradley Horowitz, Vice President of Product Search at Yahoo; and Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google.
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JOURNALISTS over the years have assumed they were writing their headlines and articles for two audiences — fickle readers and nitpicking editors. Today, there is a third important arbiter of their work: the software programs that scour the Web, analyzing and ranking online news articles on behalf of Internet search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The fall TV season is about to begin. The push is on from the broadcast networks to tempt you into watching what they spent the past year pounding into shape.
At a moment when the networks would like nothing more than to make a splash — another “Lost” or “Desperate Housewives” would be nice — the biggest news in TV is the escalating instances of mutiny by viewers.
Watching what the networks set before them is fine. But more and more viewers want to cook as well as dine, which makes the TV story of the year the story of a Web site: YouTube.
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By Justin Martin
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. (FSB Magazine) — Allan Keiter awoke one recent morning to the scary news that his Atlanta company’s website was nearly impossible to find on a Google search. MyRatePlan.com helps consumers compare cellular calling plans.
Sourced from stuff.co.nz By REUBEN SCHWARZ
Trade Me has followed up on its assault on the online jobs market by launching a website that lets visitors browse an electronic map of New Zealand, or call up a street map of a vicinity by keying in an address.
The smaps website was built using technology supplied by Wellington start-up ProjectX, which created mapping site zoomin.co.nz.
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Gmail is headed for the office – officially.
Starting today, Google will offer Google Apps for Your Domain, a free package of programs for businesses, universities and other organisations.
Workers will be able to send email with Gmail, Google’s two-year-old web-based mail service, but messages will carry their company’s domain name.