Category Archives: search engines
Audio from Future of Web Apps Miami available
Just got an e-mail letting me know that audio from the Future of Web Apps Miami conference is available. Woot! For us online news types, these talks are a great chance to get exposed to what’s happening in web technology … Continue reading
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Trains and trends: the web in 2008
Design blog Information Architects has created a fantastically cool visualization of 2008′s biggest web trends, all pinned to a map of Tokyo’s train system. I know; it sounds strange. But it really is quite awesome. Soon as I get to … Continue reading
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Google News is in your neighborhood
Google announced late last night a new feature for Google News that allows users to receive local headlines from their city, state or country of choice. The feature worked well when I tried it out for Orlando and a few … Continue reading
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Microsoft makes $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo
Big news this a.m. for …well… the whole Internet. From the New York Times: Microsoft said Friday that it has made an offer to buy Yahoo for about $44.6 billion, or $31 a share, in a mix of cash and … Continue reading
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ComScore releases 2007 year in review
ComScore released its 2007 Internet Year in Review report and reports that Facebook, Craigslist, Wikipedia and AT&T have reaped some of the biggest benefits. Internet Broadcasting Systems (IBS) and WorldNow seem to be the only news-oriented properties in the top … Continue reading
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Google: Journalistopia as important as Washington Post, LA Times
[UPDATE: A spot check of the WaPo and LA Times shows their PageRank have returned to normal. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted!] Ok, we all know my measly online journalism blog –thrilling as it may be to … Continue reading
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A look at Google’s “20 percent time”
The New York Times gives us a closer look and some philosophizing about Google’s famed “20 percent time” during an interview with Google software engineer Bharat Mediratta. In a nutshell, 20 percent time is the amount of time given to … Continue reading
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Google News dumps duplicate AP copy
In case any of you missed the big announcement, Google News has decided to get rid of all those pesky duplicate wire stories hosted on newspaper sites from their search results. This means an AP story hosted on, say, the … Continue reading
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Google to publish Associated Press, other news content
In a significant first, Google will begin hosting Associated Press stories on its own site, according to an AP report. Another good report, this one by InformationWeek, is here. Here’s an example of a Google-hosted story. The AP story sums … Continue reading
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Looking at the big media picture with Google, AOL, Yahoo
Amy Webb over at MyDigiMedia cuts through the media circus around newspaper acquisitions and has a moment of clarity when she surveys the bigger picture and looks at “who owns what.” Amy has drawn up a handy chart showing the … Continue reading
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Blogger takes long view, makes metrics discovery
ProBlogger Darren Rowse made an interesting discovery when he took a closer look at his blog’s metrics: one of his blog posts received more traffic from StumbleUpon than from Digg — but he had to take a long view of … Continue reading
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Journalistopia Cartoon: June 3, 2007
Place on your blog: <a href="http://journalistopia.com/2007/06/03/journalistopia-cartoon-june-3-2007"> <img src="http://journalistopia.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/cartoon-05-28-07-googlezon.jpg" border=0 /> </a> -More in the cartoons category. -Read the latest on the legal wrangling over Google News here. -Watch the EPIC2014 Googlezon video here.
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