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Oracle: Web 2.0 'imperative' for business
News Adopting a Web 2.0 strategy helps companies better communicate with customers and creates business opportunities, says executive.
Tags: Web 2.0
Thai flag on porn Website makes Thai gov't see red
News A Thai woman living in Britain faces possible extradition and imprisonment for displaying the Thai national flag on her pornographic Web site. The Web site also described Bangkok as a "city of sex", the Thai government complained.
SurfControl obtains Web filtering software patent
News SurfControl, which produces Web and e-mail filters, said that it has been granted a U.S. patent for software that allows companies to block Web sites, despite the ire of online activists against such restrictions.
Google brewing new architecture with 'Caffeine'
News Developers and "power searchers" are being invited to test out the new search architecture, which Google hopes will be faster, more comprehensive and more accurate.
Tags: Search, Web browsers, Google Search, blog, spokesman, Search, Web, team, Web browsers, Webmaster
Google offers easy translation service for Web pages
News In honor of International Translation Day (you forgot?), Google is publishing code that Webmasters can use to detect the preferred language of their visitors.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Data mining & analysis, Database management, Page, Google Inc., Web Site, Hallmark, Webmaster, Web Page
Meeting user demands for real-time data may set you apart
Techguide When systems give users the expectation of real-time data but don't deliver it, users may get more frustrated, angry and confused than they would with a non real-time system.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Authoring, Search Engine, competitive advantage, Authoring, Microsoft Developer Network, Search Result, bank, industry, Web
Search giants join to tidy up Web addresses
News Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have jointly developed a way to steer search engines toward the primary version of related Web pages.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Web servers, Domain names, Authentication, Microsoft Corp., Web Page, Bot, Search Engine, IM
Google to highlight Web's need for speed
News Google plans to unveil a new Web site designed to educate Web publishers on ways to make their pages faster and more powerful.
Tags: Java, Web servers, Web sites, Web services, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Firefox plug-in, JavaScript, San Jose, Velocity
Google warns entire Internet is malware
News For about an hour Saturday morning, Google listed every site on the Internet as potentially harmful to your computer. At first, Google blamed the problem on StopBadware.org but later had to eat crow.
Tags: Search, Web sites, Web 2.0, Malware, Google Inc., Site, Computer, PST, StopBadware.org, Berkman Center
We're all guinea pigs in Google's search experiment
News The company keeps an eye on how users respond to variations on the theme. Also: Behind the minimalist design.
Tags: Search, Business development/management, Business Strategies & Functions, Business models, Strategic analysis, Google Inc., Advertisement, co-founder, food, Silicon Valley
Google brings Friend Connect to the masses
News Google joins the data portability crowd with 'Friend Connect' allowing users to bring their data from social networks. The programming-free network is said to even incorporate Web sites that are not socially-enabled.
Tags: Networking, Data Management, Networking technology, MySpace, Google Inc., Site, Orkut.com, Social Web, Plaxo Inc., Use Case
Email tracking...or snooping?
News An Australian service that claims to track the whereabouts of your online correspondence may be imposing on end-users privacy.
Is email going off track?
News An Australian service that claims to know the whereabouts of your online correspondence with a new email tracking service may be imposing on end-users privacy.
Malaysia's press freedom ranking plunges
Blogs Last year when the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) World Press Freedom Index was announced, it showed Malaysia jumping 2...
Apple distances itself from Satanists
News Apple Computer, which gained fame with its "think different" ad campaign, has told the Church of Satan it does not want to be associated with it.
