http://bigblog.com/search_engines.html The latest in Search Engines http://www.digitalcad.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=394602 At Campfire One at the Googleplex (http://code.google.com/campfire/), Google Inc. announced a preview release of Google Friend Connect, a service that helps website owners grow traffic by enabling any site on the web to easily provide social features for its visitors..."> http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/?i=53830 Games, animals, and historical figures and events are among the top internet search terms used in schools http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/05/16/facebook-bans-google-friend-connect-service San Francisco - Online social network Facebook has blocked a recent feature offered by Google (NASD: GOOG) that would have let users take their personal data from Facebook and automatically post it on other sites, Wired.com reported. The company has banned Google's new Friend Connect service, saying it "doesn't respect the privacy standards our users have come to expect." Meanwhile, the company this week announced plans to launch its own Facebook Connect that will do much the same thing as Friend Connect, but allow Facebook to retain control over how its members' personal data is shared. http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080516-113504 Dear Google: Facebook Is Just Not That Into You | Main | Inside the Googleplex: Google to Webcast Google Factory Tour of Search http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/080516-110559 Google FriendConnect friended Facebook. It looked as if Facebook (stocked with former Google executives) might become BFFs (best friends forever). http://www.indiaenews.com/business/20080516/118414.htm Searching the net might become quite a different experience thanks to an experiment from Yahoo! India called Glue that yields results with visual information. http://www.mworld.com/m/m.w?lp=GetStory&id=306804581 Office Depot has launched an online Business Resource Center with Google, providing small business customers with the tools they need to communicate, collaborate, and start marketing themselves. http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=1045 At the Cleantech Forum in San Francisco, Todd Glass of Heller Ehrman moderates a discussion, among tech execs, on the various solar technologies making a difference in the green movement. http://www.technologymarketing.com/bw/news/tech/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003802660 Office Depot has linked with Google for a new small business-focused online resource center where customers can access various Google products in one place. http://sanfrancisco.about.com/b/2008/05/13/bay-area-transit-updates-and-google-transit.htm SF NeighborhoodsPhotos of San FranciscoMaps & TransitThings to DoDiningParks, Nature & AnimalsSan Francisco With KidsShoppingGay & Lesbian ResourcesSportsSan Francisco HistoryMoving to San FranciscoGreen Living in SFBay Area & Day Trips http://www.business-standard.com/general/storypage_general.php?&autono=323244 Asklaila, a local search engine owned by Bangalore-based Four Interactive, has launched local search services on mobile phones. Any mobile subscriber with GPRS connectivity can log in to the mobile WAP site (m.asklaila.com) and can search the services and business establishments he is looking for by typing the key word in the search option. http://www.MacDesignPro.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=394602 At Campfire One at the Googleplex (http://code.google.com/campfire/), Google Inc. announced a preview release of Google Friend Connect, a service that helps website owners grow traffic by enabling any site on the web to easily provide social features for its visitors..."> http://www.addict3d.org/news/367802/The%202008%20Google%20Summer%20of%20Code:%2021%20Projects%20I'm%20Excited%20About Andrew Min gives a taster of the open source goodies being developed at Google's Summer of Code: a GUI for Aptitude, a GUI for Grub 2, search based menu browsing for GIMP and Audacity file import/export with FFmpeg amongst others. http://www.socaltech.com/lexico_publishing_acquired_by_ask_com/s-0015325.html Lexico Publishing Group, a Long Beach-based firm that operates the Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com web sites, has been acquired by search provider Ask.com, in an all-cash deal. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Ask.com said that Lexico helps expand the firm's monthly unique visitors by 15.6M. Ask said that Lexico is profitbale, and has been seeing high double digit growth for the past two years. Lexico was founded in 1995 by Brian Kariger and Daniel Fierro. Ask.com is an operating unit of IAC. http://maxon.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=394602 At Campfire One at the Googleplex (http://code.google.com/campfire/), Google Inc. announced a preview release of Google Friend Connect, a service that helps website owners grow traffic by enabling any site on the web to easily provide social features for its visitors..."> http://dailygadget.typepad.com/daily_gadget/2008/05/yahoo-and-googl.html Bringing you sneak peaks of all the newest electronic gadgets, cell phones, iPods, and BlackBerry Phones. http://www.monitortoday.com/index.php?page=~~newsitems_174250 Facebook says it denied Google Friend Connect access to Facebook user data for failing to respect its privacy requirements. http://www.monitortoday.com/index.php?page=~~newsitems_174229 The two Internet companies began discussing an advertising partnership after Microsoft made its unsolicited offer for Yahoo. http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1247-Enterprise-search:-free-as-in-free-beer?source=RSS Get an enterprise-wide license to a full year of all CMS Watch Reports and receive the latest evaluations of the most important solutions in the international marketplace for all of the content technologies that we cover. http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;911326102;fp;2;fpid;1 Facebook has blocked Google's Friend Connect from accessing to its members' data, citing privacy policy violations. http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2008/05/15/iac%2526%2523039%3Bs-ask.com-acquires-dictionary.com-parent-lexico-publishing Oakland, Calif. - Ask.com, the search engine unit of IAC (NASD: IACI), announced on Thursday that it will acquire Lexico Publishing Group, the owner of reference sites Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com, for an undisclosed sum. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,146003-c,sites/article.html The bad news just doesn't seem to end for Yahoo As the Internet portal prepares to fend off a proxy fight by billionaire investor Carl Icahn, new research from comScore Inc. concludes that for the first time, Google has overtaken Yahoo as the most-visited Web site in the U.S. http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=31175 Google and Yahoo users who visit zoho.com can log into Zoho using the usernames and passwords associated with their Google and Yahoo accounts. http://www.internetnews.com/search/article.php/3747621/Google+Passes+Yahoo+in+Web+Traffic.htm Digg Del.icio.us furl StumbleUpon BlinkList Newsvine Magnolia Facebook Tailrank Slashdot Technorati Google Bookmarks Yahoo Favorites Windows Live Ask http://www.mworld.com/m/m.w?lp=GetStory&id=306796011 Online metrics firm ComScore (NASDAQ: SCOR) reported yesterday that in April traffic to Google's Web sites topped Yahoo's monthly visitor count for the first time.