"Cameron Beyer spotted a Google Image Search experiment that shows suggestions next to some of the search results. When searching for 'flower', Google displayed suggestions like 'rose flower', 'yellow flower', 'murakami' next to some of the images.
This seems to be a quick and dirty to refine search results until the similar images experiment from Google Labs is integrated in Google Image Search."
"The Commission's rules may be less effective at squelching behind-the-scenes arrangements between advertisers and bloggers than policies at Google (GOOG), which has been penalizing paid blog entries by demoting them in its search results."
Editor's note: this BusinessWeek article confirms that Google does not like paid links.
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"[Google] actually looked at [buying a newspaper company] and we're trying to avoid crossing the line between the infrastructure and technology that Google provides and the content that our partners provide. There is a line and we're trying to stay on our side it. [...]
We measure our businesses very, very carefully and in both the print and the radio businesses we could not seem to invent or get enough of a signal back to make the network or value really spin – that's one way to describe it."
"You could prepare a few taglines, offers, images, logos and colors, and Smart Ads technology combines them to create thousands of ads that can be displayed to your potential customers. [...]
As people like our hipster and our blue-collar guy click on ads, our systems learn what combinations people like them want to see. Is the hipster more interested in convenience and multimedia? Is the blue-collar guy more interested in cost?"
"Wolfram Alpha is not an alternative to Google or any of the other major search engines; it is another type of search tool that complements Google. They themselves call it 'a computational knowledge engine.' [...]
Wolfram Alpha does not spider the web, as other search engines do. Instead it accesses the hidden web, carefully selected databases that may provide reliable data."
Search engine newslets design at Google.
Yahoos: buy one of these companies (Twitter, Gawker, etc.).
What do you want to [Live Search's] Qi Lu?
Yahoo! chases after Google, adds
to iPhone app.
Google: the Internet's crime family.
Why Google index @ signs (video).
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