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Welcome to the Friday, March 6 SearchEngineWorld Daily News Tracker featuring news of Twitter mulling integrated search box roll-out, Google tightening Latitude mobile friend-finder data turnover policies, Google gaining ground on Baidu in China, Time Warner chief executive giving AOL priority status, and more.


Lane R Ellis      
Lead Editor,
SearchEngineWorld

 4:16 pm on Mar. 6, 2009 (utc 0)

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Twitter mulling integrated search box rollout

http://mashable.com/2009/03/05/twitter-search-being-pushed-out-to-all-tonight/
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10190491-36.html
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_begins_rolling_out_search_and_trends.php
http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/05/searching-for-the-wisdom-of-the-twits/

Google Promises Memory Loss for mobile friend-finding tool Latitude

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Messaging-and-Collaboration/Google-Promises-Memory-Loss-for-Latitude/
http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/googles-latitud.html

Google Share of China Search Market rose during 2008

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/160818/google_share_of_china_search_market_inches_up_in_2008.html

Cathay Pacific Apologizes for YouTube Leak

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/03/05/cathay-pacific-apologizes-for-youtube-leak/
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/blog/eyeonasia/archives/2009/03/cathay_pacific_1.html

U.K. politicians' Wikipedia worries

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7921985.stm

RealPlayer offers Google Chrome Web browser option with installations

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/03/google-chrome-bundled-with-realplayer.html
http://mashable.com/2009/03/05/google-chrome-realplayer/
http://gigaom.com/2009/03/05/google-chrome-makes-friends-with-real/

Google Gmail Labs feature exports Web e-mail filters

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/03/export-gmail-filters.html

Google admits Scandinavian data center landing

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/05/google_finland_data_center/

Yahoo Mail Is One Third Of Yahoo's Traffic

http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-mail-is-one-third-of-yahoos-traffic-2009-3
http://www.inquisitr.com/19345/report-more-than-a-third-of-yahoos-traffic-is-from-yahoo-mail/

Google Maps Hackathon Recap

http://www.centernetworks.com/google-maps-hackathon-recap
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2009/03/google_geo_hackathon_report.html

Time Warner CEO: AOL 'Top Priority'

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=101573

Google adds earthquake information

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/shaking-up-earthquake-searches.html
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/03/shaking-up-seismic-searches.html
http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/05/was-that-an-earthquake-google-it-and-find-out/

Yahoo-owned Zimbra tops 40 million paid users

http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/05/zimbra-tops-40m-paid-users-more-popular-than-gmail/

Aaron Greenspan: Why I Sued Google (and Won)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-i-sued-google-and-won_b_172403.html

Mahalo security worker gets jail sentence
from Guardian Unlimited Technology

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/mar/05/calacanis-mahalo-botnet
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090306/tc_afp/usnetherlandsitinternetcrimemahalo

Google offers AdWords users St. Patrick's day display ad templates

http://adwords.blogspot.com/2009/03/st-patricks-day-display-ad-templates.html

Google offers free AdWords conversion optimizer webinar

http://adwords.blogspot.com/2009/03/conversion-optimizer-webinar-increasing.html

Google Webspam head Matt Cutts offers tips on YouTube caption features

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/youtube-subtitle-captions/

Ask.com on Interpreting Hitwise Statistics on Longer Queries

http://blog.ask.com/2009/03/interpreting-hitwise-statistics-on-longer-queries.html

WEB / OTHER

eMarketer paints gloomy forecast picture for e-Commerce sites

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/gloomy-forecast-for-e-commerce-sites/

Barnes & Noble Buys E-Book Retailer Fictionwise

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/05/barnes-noble-buys-e-book-retailer/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123629155930544733.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE52449N20090305

PlentyofFish Adds Pay Option for “Serious” Daters

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/03/06/plentyoffish-adds-pay-option-for-serious-daters/

Gawker brings its Hollywood gossip site Defamer and technology property Valleywag together under one name

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123629693582546041.html

Native Facebook Application Coming Soon for Windows Mobile 6.5

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/03/06/native-facebook-application-coming-for-windows-mobile-65/
http://mashable.com/2009/03/05/facebook-windows-mobile-2/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/05/windows_mobile_facebook/

Facebook invites users to chat in applications

http://developers.facebook.com/news.php?blog=1&story=208
http://mashable.com/2009/03/05/facebook-chat-invites/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/05/facebook-apps-can-now-use-chat-to-go-viral/
http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/05/facebook-applications-get-a-new-growth-channel-chat-with-friend-invites/

Seattle Post-Intelligencer paper may shift to online-only: reports

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE5250W720090306

U.S. Representative to push to repeal U.S. online gambling ban

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE5246NI20090305

Advertising giant WPP Helped By Social Networking

http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/06/wpp-public-relations-markets-equity_communications.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=aFBcFoxDx2C8

European Push for More Online Rights to Privacy

http://www.pcworld.com/article/160816/european_push_for_more_online_rights_to_privacy.html

Users Gain Options for Mobile Voice Encryption

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/160815/users_gain_options_for_mobile_voice_encryption.html

Report: Mozilla Firefox Web browser buggier, but issued fixes quicker

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10190206-83.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/05/secunia_security_stats/
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Security-Report-Ignites-Firefox-vs-Internet-Explorer-Feud/

Comment application consolidation: JS-Kit Acquires SezWho

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/05/more-comment-consolidation-js-kit-acquires-sezwho/
http://www.inquisitr.com/19414/and-then-there-was-three-js-kit-acquires-sezwho/

Facebook's Director Of Business Development Net Jacobsson Quits

http://gawker.com/5165343/another-exec-unfriends-facebook

eBay's ProStores Offers PowerReviews Express To Online Merchants

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=101492

 


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