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The Search Wars Are Going
"Mobile search is a battle to define perhaps the most important new interface with the consumer," says John du Pre Gauntt, eMarketer Senior Analyst and the author of the new report, Mobile Search: Clash of the Titans.
"Whoever cracks the consumer and commercial code for delivering and monetizing relevant answers for people on the go will secure a license to print money, at least for a time."
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The top 100 web search engines no one ever heard of
(Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing)
“Charles Knight at Read/Write Web has an interesting post about the top 100 alternative web search engines. That's right, the top 100...there are many more that didn't make the list.”
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Net Radio: 'New Song Royalties Will Kill Us' (PC World)
“Internet radio stations are mobilizing in the wake of a potentially costly new royalty fee structure approved earlier this week by the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB).
The board decided Monday that commercial Internet radio stations, regardless of their size, will pay a new, higher flat fee to the record labels each time a song is played. The increase applies to songs played in 2007, and retroactively for 2006 at a slightly lower rate. As it stands now, the rates will go into effect in about a month.
"The CRB's ill informed decision to increase royalty fees to this unjustifiable level will quite simply bankrupt most webcasters and destroy Internet radio," says the Net radio stations' newly formed coalition, SaveNetRadio.org.
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Why Do We Attach So Much Importance To Google? (Super Feature)
“During the last couple of years however, it seems that ownership of the Internet has been surrendered to a new overlord! GOOGLE! And we should all point our prayer mats to face
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Blackle: the dark side of Google
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“Have you too been infected by the Blackle bug? Millions of Internet users are logging on to a new search engine, blackle.com — with a black background — to save a wee bit of energy every time they want to search something on the net.
Search giant Google has customised blackle.com which means that everytime you search on blackle.com, you are using Google’s search prowess.
The argument is simple: An all-white background uses more energy to display than a black background. Now if Google, which gets gets 200 million queries a day, turns its background black, some amount of energy will be saved. So, Blackle is Google gone black. “
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