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Same site repeated is this allowed?
Our current website is a wholesale website but we get a lot of people enquirying
for small retail orders.
Ask Jeeves What’s In A Name?
Some speculation around the search engine industry focuses on a possible name
change by Ask Jeeves. Many have their thoughts on what the new name might be but
this is also a bit of PR for the 4th ranked search engine.
Size Does Matter, At Least A Little
The major search engines recently had their semi-annual round and round over who’s
got the biggest index in the industry. Yahoo! left Google agog as to just how
its rival was able to achieve indexing some 19 billion pages, while the people’s
champion, Google, assumed it was sitting pretty with 8 billion.
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08.15.05
Google Takes A Break From Print
 By Chris Crum
The highly-criticized Google Print Library project has been put on hold until
Novemeber. Google will use this break to find out which copyright holders don't
want their property included in the project.
According to the project's product manager, Adam M. Smith, most major publishers
in the U.S. and the U.K. have agreed to participate, but the Association
of American Publishers (AAP) is one group that has its problems with the project.
The AAP isn't satisfied with Google just taking a break to find out which publishers
will cooperate. "Google's announcement does nothing to relieve the publishing
industry's concerns," said Patricia Schroeder, AAP's President and CEO.
The AAP's biggest problem with the Google
Print Library Project is that the responsibility of trying to avoid copyright
infringement goes to the holder of the copyright. Publishers have to work to keep
their property out of the project.
"Google's procedure shifts the responsibility for preventing infringement to the
copyright owner rather than the user, turning every principle of copyright law
on its ear," said Schroeder.
Google plans to digitally copy every piece from three major libraries unless they
are denied permission on certain works by copyright owners.
"We were confident that by working together, Google and publishers could have
produced a system that would work for everyone, and regret that Google has decided
not to work with us on our alternative proposal."
Technorati Rumor Tracked
 By
Robert Scoble
Matthew Hurst is tracking the rumors of Technorati's sale. Just for the record,
Dave Sifry, Technorati's founder/CEO, has not answered my email inquiries ...
and has not said anything about
this rumor (which is uncharacteristic of him -- he usually leaves a comment,
even on obscure blogs, everytime Technorati is mentioned).
Susan
Mernit says that the rumor is untrue but gives as little attribution as the
original rumor that started this thing.
This all said, I think blog search is a very interesting area -- already I'm doing
about 30% of my daily searches using blog search engines -- that's a huge shift
in my search usage in just the past year or two.
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About the Author:
Robert Scoble is the founder of the famous
Scobleizer blog. As an employee of Microsoft,
Robert Scoble is recognized as the most prominent corporate blogger in the world.
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