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Google Book Search Puts Magazines Online (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Book Search Puts Magazines Online  —  First Google digitized books, then newspapers, then historic Time-Life photos and now — magazines.  Today through Google Book Search, people can search the full-text of millions of articles from more than 10 magazine with hundreds more to come.

Google Book Search Puts Magazines Online (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Book Search Puts Magazines Online  —  First Google digitized books, then newspapers, then historic Time-Life photos and now — magazines.  Today through Google Book Search, people can search the full-text of millions of articles from more than 10 magazine with hundreds more to come.

Google Book Search Puts Magazines Online (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Google Book Search Puts Magazines Online  —  First Google digitized books, then newspapers, then historic Time-Life photos and now — magazines.  Today through Google Book Search, people can search the full-text of millions of articles from more than 10 magazine with hundreds more to come.

IWF statement regarding Wikipedia webpage (iwf.org.uk)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

iwf.org.uk:
IWF statement regarding Wikipedia webpage  —  A Wikipedia webpage was reported through the IWF’s online reporting mechanism on 4 December 2008.  As with all potentially illegal online child sexual abuse reports we receive, the image was assessed according to current UK legislation and in accordance …

Street View: A year in review, and what’s new (Stephen Chau/The Official Google Blog)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Stephen Chau / The Official Google Blog:
Street View: A year in review, and what’s new  —  With just 22 days left in the year, I can’t help but think back to where Street View was at the beginning of 2008.  At that time, we had imagery for 23 cities in the United States, and […]

Ringtone apps - As an iPhone developer who’s been in the App … (Craig Hockenberry/furbo.org)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Craig Hockenberry / furbo.org:
Ringtone apps  —  As an iPhone developer who’s been in the App Store since its launch, I’m starting to see a trend that concerns me: developers are lowering prices to the lowest possible level in order to get favorable placement in iTunes.  This proliferation of 99¢ “ringtone apps” is affecting our […]

Search and find magazines on Google Book Search (Dave Foulser/The Official Google Blog)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Dave Foulser / The Official Google Blog:
Search and find magazines on Google Book Search  —  The word “magazine” is derived from the Arabic word “makhazin,” meaning storehouse.  Since Daniel Defoe published the world’s first English magazine back in 1704, millions of magazines catering to nearly every imaginable taste have been created …

YouTube Attracts 100 Million U.S. Online Video Viewers in October 2008 (comScore)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

comScore:
YouTube Attracts 100 Million U.S. Online Video Viewers in October 2008  —  Hulu Continues Ascent, Ranks #6 in Online Video Market Share  —  comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released October 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service …

INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad bump material (Charlie Demerjian/Inquirer)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Charlie Demerjian / Inquirer:
INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad bump material  —  Bumpgate We break out the electron microscope  —  WHEN THE NEW Macbooks came out a few weeks ago, Nvidia stated that the chips they provided to Apple did not contain the proverbial ‘bad bumps’.

A Web Start-Up Counting on Ad Sales? Good Luck (Claire Cain Miller/Bits)

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
A Web Start-Up Counting on Ad Sales?  Good Luck  —  During the dot-com bust, as the online advertising market dried up and the Web companies that had been buying most of the ad space went bankrupt, the people who start and fund companies in Silicon Valley began questioning whether Web […]