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SearchEngineWorld Thursday, February 19, 2009 Daily News Tracker
Welcome to the Thursday, February 19 SearchEngineWorld Daily News Tracker featuring news of Yahoo launching its Rich Ads in Search program, Google highlighting PubCon presentation, Yahoo search turning five, Italian judge giving Google hosting case go-ahead, Google AdWords upcoming maintenance, and more.


Lane R Ellis      
Lead Editor,
SearchEngineWorld

 4:50 pm on Feb. 19, 2009 (utc 0)

SEARCH

Yahoo Shows Search Ads With Images and Video

http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2009/02/18/your-ads-richer/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/technology/companies/19yahoo.html
http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-shows-search-ads-with-images%2C-video/2100-1024_3-6249025.html
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20090219/the-little-engine-that-could-yahoo-paid-search-adds-video-and-pictures-trying-for-more-clicks/
http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-tries-universal-search-2009-2
http://www.webmasterworld.com/yahoo_search_marketing_overture_ppc/3853054.htm

Google Webmaster Central highlights PubCon presentation by search quality team member Matt Cutts

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/state-of-index-my-presentation-from.html
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/2008-webmaster-seo-tools/

Google Mobile Application now available for Microsoft Windows Mobile operating system devices

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/02/google-mobile-app-now-available-on.html
http://mashable.com/2009/02/18/google-app-for-windows-mobile/

Yahoo Search turns five

http://ysearchblog.com/2009/02/18/five-years-of-yahoo-search/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_search_turns_5_has_tech.php

China's Top Search Engine Firm Baidu Posts Rise, Sees Headwinds

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123501331121019505.html
http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/19/baidu-china-update-markets-equity_internet_04.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=akvnsNVjX.aw

Google Gives And Takes Away: Why it's hard to find useful information using Google

http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/18/google-internet-advertising-technology-internet_google.html

Italian judge give Google hosting case go-ahead

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2009-02-18-google-italy_N.htm

Google demonstrates mobile version of Gmail for both Apple's iPhone and Google's Android phones

http://www.pcworld.com/article/159803/offline_gmail_coming_soon_on_iphone_android.html
http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/02/18/video-offline-gmail-web-app-for-webkit-browser-phones-demoed/
http://www.appletell.com/apple/comment/offline-gmail-for-iphone-demoed-at-mwc...-coming-soon/
http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/18/video-a-sleeker-gmail-experience-on-the-iphone-with-offline-capabilities/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=3099
(related)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=aow3VTNo_jEY&refer=technology

Mashable asks: HTML5 Enabled Gmail - What Does it Mean?

http://mashable.com/2009/02/19/html5-gmail/

Recovery.gov blocks search engine crawling

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-10167373-46.html

Google may face monopoly probe

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2236785/google-face-monopoly-probe
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=100571

Political advocacy groups increasingly use search marketing campaigns

http://undertheinfluence.nationaljournal.com/2009/02/groups-reach-americans-via-sti.php

Google Latitude topped 1 million users in first week / cellphone location-tracker raises privacy concerns

http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/18/while-people-worry-about-facebook-photos-a-million-users-let-google-know-exactly-where-they-are/
http://localmobilesearch.net/news/social-networks/google-million-users-latitude-week-one

Google accepting developer-created videos

http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2009/02/now-playing-developer-created-videos.html

Google Maps on Verizon's BlackBerry Storm now uses GPS for My Location

http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/02/google-maps-on-verizons-blackberry.html

Google AdWords to go offline during Saturday, February 21, 2009 maintenance

http://adwords.blogspot.com/2009/02/adwords-system-maintenance-on-february.html

Google drops Japan's Google.co.jp site toolbar PageRank from 9 down to 5

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pointers-for-google-japan-paid-post-story/

Google makes Google Documents available for downloading via its Documents List Data API

http://googledataapis.blogspot.com/2009/02/start-downloads.html

Google updates Google Pack

http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2009/02/faster-way-to-get-to-docs-and-other.html

Google Earth reveals secret history of US base in Pakistan: London Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5762371.ece

Microsoft Virtual Earth on Microsoft cloud operating system Windows Azure

http://blogs.msdn.com/virtualearth/archive/2009/02/18/microsoft-virtual-earth-on-windows-azure.aspx

WEB / OTHER

Hulu To Cut Off Users of Boxee Video Software

http://blog.hulu.com/2009/2/18/doing-hard-things
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/02/19/hulu-withdraws-its-content-from-tvcom-boxee/
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/hulu-will-cut-off-users-of-boxee-video-software/
http://www.pcworld.com/article/159823/hulu_pulls_content_from_tvcom_boxee.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10167152-93.html
http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090218/did-big-cable-force-hulu-off-boxee/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/18/content-owners-force-hulu-to-kill-boxee-support/
http://www.businessinsider.com/big-media-forces-hulu-to-pull-shows-off-boxee-2009-2
http://www.centernetworks.com/hulu-boxee-removal
http://www.gadgetell.com/tech/comment/hulu-says-bye-bye-to-boxee/
http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/18/hulu-goes-all-michael-corleone-boxee-support-also-killed/
http://www.inquisitr.com/18371/hulu-cuts-off-boxee-old-media-takes-one-step-forward-two-steps-back/
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=3103

The Consumerist: The Blog That Ignited a Privacy Debate on Facebook

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/consumeristcom-sparks-privacy-debate-on-facebook/
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/facebook-to-defend-english-from-the-lawyers/
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/02/18/recapping-the-three-day-facebook-firestorm/
http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-privacy-snafu-is-nbc-nightly-news-2009-2
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/techbeat/archives/2009/02/the_complaint_a.html
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/facebook-flap.html

Unigo.com Gives Everyone a Say About College Picks

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123499498840816053.html

Expedia Posts $2.76 billion fourth-quarter Loss on Write-Down

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123504365515721761.html
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/02/19/ap6070846.html

Wikileaks Forced to Leak Its Own Secret Info

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/02/wikileaks-force.html

Facebook offers best practices for making advertising money on social networking site's platform

http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=196
http://mashable.com/2009/02/18/facebook-app-ad-network/
http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/18/facebook-begins-testing-ads-for-third-party-applications/

Mobile advertising edges closer to breakthrough: Kate Holton for Reuters at World Mobile Congress in Barcelona

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE51I3WV20090219

Hollywood struggles to find wealth on the Web

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE51I01520090219

Online Social networking 'harms health': Doctor

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7898510.stm
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10167352-71.html

Hacker pokes third hole in secure sockets layer

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/19/ssl_busting_demo/

FlipGloss Media offers Web Ads That Look Like Magazine Ads

http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090219/no-one-likes-web-ads-what-about-web-ads-that-look-like-magazine-ads/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/19/flipgloss-wants-to-be-magazine-20/
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-forbes-media-backed-flipgloss-launches-beta/

Social networks driving Flash Lite usage

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2236814/social-networks-driving-flash
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Social-Networking-Drives-Adobe-Flash-Lite-Adoption/

ImageShack launches Yfrog, alternative to Twitter photo-sharing site TwitPic

http://yfrog.com/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/19/imageshack-launches-mediocre-twitpic-alternative/

GeoTweeter Apple iPhone App Tweets Your Location, Shows Your Followers The Way

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/02/18/alone-at-the-bar-again-schmaps-geotweeter-app-will-tweet-your-location-and-guide-the-way/

Report: Mobile Ads Are ‘Stickier;’ iPhone Users Are The Most Receptive Audience

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-report-mobile-ads-more-sticky-iphone-users-most-receptive-to-mobile-ads/

SpeakerRate Helps Speakers Get Honest Feedback

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

New allegations claim Yelp suppressed bad reviews

http://www.gadgetell.com/tech/comment/is-yelp-cheating-us-funny-business-galore/

 


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