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SearchEngineWorld Tuesday, January 13, 2009 Daily News Tracker
Welcome to the Tuesday, January 13 SearchEngineWorld Daily News Tracker featuring news of Google's new experimental Apple Mac search tool, Delicious founder Joshua Schachter joining former rival Google, Yahoo seeking link spam patent, and more.


Lane R Ellis      
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SearchEngineWorld

 6:34 pm on Jan. 13, 2009 (utc 0)

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Google launches experimental search tool for Apple Mac users

http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2009/01/search-without-effort-quick-search-box.html
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/12/google-launches-experimental-search-tool-for-macs/

Google's YouTube Teams With Congress to Show Lawmakers at Work

http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=XzRSzC2JAQA
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/technology/internet/12youtube.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10141182-38.html
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_youtube_government.php
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D95MAFCG0.htm
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/12/the-us-congress-the-new-stars-of-youtube/
http://www.inquisitr.com/15121/youtube-now-officially-the-choice-of-congress/

Privacy Groups Target Google's Android, Mobile Marketers

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2009/01/12/mobile-marketing-privacy-tech-security-cx_ag_0113mobilemarket.html

Harvard scientist slams newspaper for Google CO2 report

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jan/13/google-carbon-emissions
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10141432-54.html
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212800160
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/12/revealed-the-times-made-up-that-stuff-about-google-and-the-tea-kettles/

Delicious founder Joshua Schachter joins former rival Google

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10141370-2.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/13/joshua_schachter_joins_google/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/12/confirmed-delicious-founder-joshua-schachter-joins-google/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_scoops_up_delicious_fou.php
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/delicious-founder-schachter-joins-google

Google said to opt advertisers into new mobile ad placements

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/12/how_the_google_stole_christmas/

Mobile-Phone Ads Spur Privacy Complaint That May Test Obama's Google Ties

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=amFloCoLw2tc
(related) http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/what-do-we-need-to-know-about-new-fcc-chief-julius-genachowski

Google search market share grew during December 2008: Hitwise

http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20090113/huuuuuuuuuuuuuge/
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/01/google_mops_up.html

Reorganization Splits AOL In Two

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=98263
http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/digital/e3i64ab5b30222e725fc0cea67c737074f9

Google said to have trouble with certain malformed URLs

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-01-12-n39.html

Ultra High Resolution Paintings in Google Earth

http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2009/01/ultra_high_resolution_paintings_in_google_earth.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/jan/13/art-museums-prado-google?picture=341706816

Google to Announce Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2008 Financial Results on January 22

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/ir_20090112.html

Google antispam leader Matt Cutts video presentation on "virtual blight"

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/01/preventing-virtual-blight-my.html
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/preventing-virtual-blight-video/

Google announces 2009 AdWords, Google Analytics and Website Optimizer training seminars

http://adwords.blogspot.com/2009/01/seminars-for-success-in-2009.html

Yahoo seeks link spam patent

http://tinyurl.com/f539j
http://www.huomah.com/Search-Engines/Algorithm-Matters/This-just-in-reciprocal-links-are-pointless.html

WEB / OTHER

Monster.com looks to humorous advertisements

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/business/media/13adco.html

Buzzd location-based city guide and social network looks to work on all cellphones

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/13/buzzd-seeks-to-guide-you-whatever-your-phone/

Data Breaches Hit New High
During 2008: Identity Theft Resource Center

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/01/12/data-breaches-hit-new-high/

US National Security Agency identifies 25 most common programming errors

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7824939.stm
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2009/01/11/sans-hackable-software-tech-security-cx_ag_0112sans.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2009-01-12-coding-flaws-hackers_N.htm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/13/top_25_programming_errors/
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/01/more_than_codin.html
http://www.webmasterworld.com/webmaster/3825336.htm

Cellphone maker Nokia's North America problem

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/12/technology/hempel_nokia.fortune/index.htm

States push to collect taxes on Internet sales / virtual worlds

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090112-taxpayer-advocate-urges-irs-to-tax-economy-in-virtual-worlds.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2009-01-12-online-sales-taxes_N.htm
http://www.pcworld.com/article/156989/coming_soon_more_online_taxes.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/13/new-york-court-dismisses-amazons-objections-to-paying-state-taxes/
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/court-upholds-amazon-tax-sales-tax-coming-to-e-commerce-amzn
(related: online tax preparation software grows)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123181409970476173.html

Anti-virus company AVG Acquires Behavioral Detection Security Company

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/156984/avg_acquires_behavioral_detection_security_company.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/13/avg_sana_acquisition/
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/AVG-Purchases-Behavioral-Detection-Technology-to-Bolster-AntiVirus-Defenses/

Browser Bug Could Allow Phishing Without E-mail

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/156974/browser_bug_could_allow_phishing_without_email.html

Tadcast startup launches online product placement marketplace

http://www.tadcast.com/
http://mashable.com/2009/01/12/tadcast/

Tweetbacks updates Twitter tool with TweetSuite

http://mashable.com/2009/01/12/tweetsuite/

Mashable looks at 50 methods to track Web site traffic

http://mashable.com/2009/01/12/track-online-traffic/

Online media firm Sling Media undergoes executive shakeup as co-founders depart

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10141096-93.html
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090112/slingbox-slingcom-team-leaving-echostar/
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-major-shakeup-at-sling-media/
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/sling-media-founders-execs-bail
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Midmarket/Sling-Media-Loses-its-Executive-Team/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11453
http://gigaom.com/2009/01/12/sling-founders-leave-sling-media/

Spinvox updates voice-to-text service

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2233873/spinvox-updates-voice-text

1&1 partners with Sedo to offer pre-owned domain names

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2233876/partners-sedo-offer-pre-owned

Agencies To Self-Regulate Online Behavioral Ads

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212900156
http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/agency/e3i44c7a0f4954a47d9ee34810d79aba376

Review Site RateItAll Gets A Revamp and Releases API

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/13/review-community-site-rateitall-gets-a-revamp-releases-api/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rateitall_rolls_out_social_features.php
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/13/review-site-rateitall-gets-more-social/

Online Marketing Firm Theorem Acquires Interactive Designer Webpencil

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-online-marketing-firm-theorem-acquires-interactive-designer-webpencil/

Firefox Web browser to Adopt Google's Chrome Tab Ordering Feature

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/firefox_to_adopt_chromes_tab_o.php

eMarketer: Web Tops Newspapers As News Source For First Time

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/1/for-the-first-time-internet-tops-newspapers-as-news-source

China's population of Net users hits 298 million

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D95MC3M00.htm
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090113/tc_afp/lifestylechinainternetitusers

Lookery Launches Ad Optimization Engine

http://www.centernetworks.com/lookery-ad-controller

Pre-Beta Release Delivers Early Peek at Google Chrome 2.0

http://etech.eweek.com/content/web_technology/an_early_peek_at_google_chrome_20.html

Amazon is UK's most popular site reports Nielsen

http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/item/63901/254/5/3

Greg Finn Joins 10e20

http://www.10e20.com/blog/2009/01/12/greg-finn-joins-the-10e20-team/

 


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