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Google Wants to Speed Up the Web: Launches Its Own DNS Service

Google just launched the Google Public DNS. Just like OpenDNS, Google Public DNS will allow users to bypass their ISPs Domain Name Servers (DNS).

 

Drive-by Traffic, They Say It Like It's a Bad Thing

Drive-by Traffic, They Say It Like It's a Bad Thing

Rupert Murdoch, and a couple of his fellow newspaper-owners, say that traffic coming from search engines and aggregation sites are worthless. They call it "drive-by traffic." These users only come, read one article and then leave. For an industry profusely bleeding users and revenue, you would think they wouldn't be so discriminatory when it comes to users consuming their content.

 

Google to limit free news access

Google to limit free news access

Google will let newspaper publishers limit the number of articles people can read for free through its search engine.

 

Side By Side: A Look At The Top Search Trends From Yahoo, Bing, And Google

The results are in: Bing, Yahoo, and Google have all released their top search trends for 2009. We've been following them over the last few days, and decided we'd put them side by side to see if any interesting patterns emerged.

 

Google Wants to Stream TV, for a Fee

Google Wants to Stream TV, for a Fee

YouTube, which is already trying out the movie rental business, wants to get into TV too

 

Don't bet newspapers will get rich shunning Google

There's an intriguing idea floating around the media: Microsoft Corp. wants to undercut Google so badly in Internet search that it might pay newspapers to withhold their content from Google....

 

Twitter Doesn’t Track The Zeitgeist. Only 2 Percent Of Tweets Overlap With Search Trends.

Whenever you want to take a reading of the current zeitgeist, popular search terms can tell you a lot about what's on people's minds.

 

What Users Like/Dislike About Google Wave

Google has been actively collecting feedback on Google Wave with an ongoing survey, which was distributed via email, the help center, and Twitter. Today they’ve published the initial findings for public dissection.

 

Find Movies Playing Nearby With Google Mobile Search

Want to find out what’s playing in theaters near you? Or you just want to check out the latest movie trailers? Google mobile search now has a special section that lets you check out movie listings, with locations, trailers, ratings, posters and upcoming showtimes.

 

Google Buying Display Advertising Startup

Web search leader Google said it is buying Silicon Valley display advertising technology start up Teracent, which expands its competition with display leader Yahoo.

 

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