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Behind the scenes in the Search Engine Labs

Sourced from www.searchenginewatch.com


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.

Trade Me mapping site follows jobs launch

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.

Google’s apps for businesses released

Sourced From smh.com.au


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.

Trade Me mapping site follows jobs launch

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.

“We saw it as a bit of an opportunity,” says Trade Me technology head Jon Macdonald. “We didn’t think it was something that was done particularly well at the moment.”

Google warns on ‘unsafe’ websites

Sourced from news.bbc.co.uk


Google has started warning users if they are about to visit a webpage that could harm their computer.

The warning will pop up if users click on a link to a page known to host spyware or other malicious programs.

The initiative comes out of a larger project cataloguing programs that plague people with unwanted ads, spy on web habits or steal personal data.