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My company is very focused on the global marketplace. Thus far this year, we’ve targeted the Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, and British languages in search results.
If you’re playing "One of these things is not like the other…" you probably feel the urge to inform me that "British"  just doesn’t belong. On the technical [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

Microsoft Wins Deal For Live Search To Be Default On HP ComputersFor all the excitement about Microsoft Live Search Cashback, I think a new announcement out today is far more important to Live Search’s [...]

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It’s easy to get hooked on search conferences. For me, there’s no better way to learn so much about search in the course of a couple of days: what’s working, what’s not working and what others in the industry are experiencing. The networking opportunities at conferences are priceless—where else do you have access [...]

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The NY Times has a profile of several individuals behind the scenes at Google trying to monitor and safeguard the company’s financial performance and fine tune accordingly. The piece focuses on Nicholas Fox who’s a key member of the “ads quality” team and Hal Varian, chief economist at Google.
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I got a chuckle out of this one. It seems that Google sent their cars that do StreetView photography for Google Maps into a private neighborhood in Minnesota. That neighborhood, North Oaks, demanded that Google remove all the images. As the roads are private, Google potentially trespassed to take the pictures. Google’s complied in this [...]

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