Guardian Unlimited News Story
News that Microsoft had joined forces with the Chinese government to ban words such as democracy human rights and freedom from its weblog service Spaces had set the blogosphere abuzzin remarked Tim Bray at his Ongoing blog Bray was
Beijings bitch Posted in Guardian Unlimited Newsblog on June 16
Is it just me or does this quote from Bill Gates on blogging as reported by make no sense I keep thinking about when am I going to start doing a blog Gates said My rate of
Bills offline blog...
MSN Preps Search Ad Program
Brian Morrissey
Microsoft said it would begin testing its new search advertising system in the United States in October
The inviteonly test of what Microsoft is calling Keywords will involve 500 large search advertisers which senior director Joe Duran called the biggest of the big that are playing in this area
Keywords advertisers will have advanced searchtargeting options such as tying their keyword ads to time geography gender and other factors will operate an auction to determine ad placement...
Study Shows Search Engine Variety
A study of search results displayed at the four major search engines shows that each engine is increasingly producing results that differ from the other engines In other words searchers can be reasonably confident that Google Yahoo or Ask Jeeves will more often than not return results unique to the engine being used
The study Different Engines Different Results which was conducted by the metasearch engine Dogpile and researchers from Penn State and the University of Pittsburgh examined search results from over random userentered search queries on Google Yahoo and Ask Jeeves...