Yahoo, Google deep in thought
Prabhakar Raghavan is a respected computer scientist a veteran of more than a decade at s Almaden Research Center who was recently hired to run the burgeoning research group at Yahoo Raghavan has also become a recruiting tool for Yahoo archrival Google
Plug Raghavans name into Google as many a computer scientist might do and the search results will feature an ad that reads Work for Google Click on it and youll land on Googles job listing pages
Impish prank perhaps But behind it is a very real and heated competition for the best minds in computer science It is ushering in a rebirth of research in Silicon Valley...
See No Evil
Everyone I meet is afraid The chief executive of one of Chinaamps largest hotel groups is afraid to complain to the police about the hustlers who sell fake watches outside the lobbies of his hotels A Buddhist who runs a network of factories is afraid to speak openly about the Chinese occupation of Tibet A sports marketing official one of the agents for Chinaamps basketball stars is afraid to speak out against misguided policies of the national sports system
What is unusual about these people is not that they are afraid many people in China are...
Innovative Web-based software challenges Windows status quo
Amazoncom Incs Diamond Search Shoppers check a desired shape and move an Ajax slider to choose price range carat quality and three other attributes Based on the selections the site instantly calculates the number of matches from nearly available diamonds Without Ajax shoppers would have to enter values instead of using a slider and they must hit a find diamonds button with every change
Google Incs Google Suggest This experimental search feature uses Ajax to try to guess what users are seeking when they type only the first few letters of a search term...
Association of American Publishers
The Association of American Publishers today announced the filing of a lawsuit against Google over its plans to digitally copy and distribute copyrighted works without permission of the copyright owners The lawsuit was filed only after lengthy discussions broke down between and Googles top management regarding the copyright infringement implications of the Google Print Library Project...
Google earnings astound analysts
such as mapping helped Google attract more summer traffic than anticipated executives said during a Thursday conference call
We are effectively connecting with users and customers in relevant ways Schmidt said
Excluding ad commissions Googles thirdquarter revenue growth accelerated by 18 percent from the second quarter Not even the most bullish analyst believed Googles sequential revenue increase would be above 10 percent
Even as the company diversifies Googles online search engine remains the companys moneymaking hub shrugging off stiffening competition from its biggest rivals Yahoo and Microsoft Corp...