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Google Earth vs Tour de France - July 5, 2006

The Tour de France has developed some neat 3d routes with Google Earth so that you can travel alongside your favorite riders.The Google Earth tool will show users stage cities, results, departures and arrival lines.It is truly a great way to integrate Google Earth into the sporting world.Read Permalink Email this Linking Blogs Comments
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Merrill Lynch estimates more search share for Google - July 5, 2006

In a recent research study, Merrill Lynch has noted that it is expecting Google to grow through distribution partners, and gain search engine market share over the next few quarters of 2006.Lynch also has released news that it thinks the strong trend in search will help brow its second quarter advertising revenue growth. Pushing their ad revenue much higher than Yahoo and MSN's.Read Permalink Email this Linking Blogs Comments
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Company is angry over its Google position - July 5, 2006

Here is it again - Kinderstart.com a kid based search engine based in LA was so upset with its Google position that it decided to take Google to court. The tiff against Google started when Kinderstart started loosing rankings in the search engine going from 18 million page views a month in 2005, and then all of a sudden over 70 percent of their traffic just stopped coming. Supposedly the owner thinks that Google black listed the site because it was also in the search engine market, and might be.
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Google is not an ISP - July 4, 2006

Google is denying that it has been aiming at becoming an ISP. They are not planning on becoming an internet supplier outside of Mountain View and San Francisco. They are just planning for the future.Wired mag asked Google about buying mobile dark fiber, only to find out that they were frustrated about the fact that "bozos in America aren't rolling out IPv6" so they will do it.Google had hired Vint Cerf in 2005 in order to lead the IPv6 strategy, which will provide trillions more IP number...
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Google's New Product Process according to Marissa Mayer - July 4, 2006

BusinessWeek has a nice article on Google's new product creation philosophy of trying a bunch of products, refining them, and seeing what survives.This article is from an interview with Marissa Mayer, the VP of search products and user experience. There are discussions on how Google has done delving into the non search world, measuring new product success, the press, and Google's uncluttered home page.Read Permalink Email...
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Little Alex Loves Google - July 4, 2006

Alex loves Google so much that she wrote a cute little essay about them, and her Dad actually emailed it to Google to check out. Alex is an avid Google user, who loves utilizing Google's tools for research on the web. Now she's very much into Geocaching.Take a peek at Little Alex's essay, she scored a 106100 on it!PS. Its hosted on her GooglePages account! What a cool kid! I bet Google is going to keep its eye on her for when she gets into the working...
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