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A YouTube Bug Outs its Users’ FTP

Gilad — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 13:31:54 +0000

Google have had this problem for a few days now and never found the time to fix it. Apparently, when you search for site:youtube.com “clicks from ftp @”, you can see all the ftp details for many YouTube users.

PS. As I mentioned, this has been out for right about a week now, so it is not an indexing thing but just Google who is probably busy with hybrid vehicles.

[via DAVEN]

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3 High Profile Engineers Leave Google

Gilad — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:34:43 +0000

When Vanessa Fox, lead developer at Google Webmaster Central, left Google last week to work at Zillow, I considered it a minor event and didn’t even report, but the report this morning at SEL of Two Top Google Engineers Leave Google really makes one ask whether we are watching a developing trend or just a coincidence?

The two developers, Bret Taylor and Jim Norris, were largely responsible for the development of Google Maps as well as other Google products. Both have left Google to work at Benchmark Capital, a venture capital firm.

Is streamline-ness taking away from its innovative-ness? Is free enterprise starting to take over the “Google dream”?

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Rumors of a Myspace Acquisition by Yahoo

Gilad — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:17:56 +0000

The biggest headline yesterday was from the British TIMESONLINE who announced that News Corp explores swap of MySpace site for Yahoo! stake. According to the article, News Corp who owns Myspace, will be willing to give Myspace away in return for a 30 per cent stake in Yahoo. This means a return of $12.3 billion for their $580 million investment only 2 years ago.

Myspace is currently working exclusively with Google for powering its search feature as well as ad platform and a Yahoo takeover may mean a big blow for Google, considering Myspace is the one of the most visited sites on the net.

I must mention that these talks may fail after all given the resignation of Yahoo’s CEO, Terry Semel, only two days ago and the takeover by Yahoo’s co-founder, Jerry Yang.

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Microsoft’s Secret “Rock Star” Engine

Gilad — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:15:05 +0000

Did Microsoft decide to drop their current search technology and start from scratch? A recent report from TechCrunch mentions that Microsoft has gathered a team of twenty or more “rock star” developers who’ve been tasked at building their next generation search engine.

According to their source, this is a new “very cool”, “horizontal” engine which will be able to cover many “verticals” all at once.

Microsoft’s search technology has been falling behind the rest since the beginning and even the launch of Live.com did not prove any significant change. However, I keep on wondering if Microsoft can ever have that “stickiness” and “coolness” that drives the Google traffic?

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Google to Acquire Feedburner?

Gilad — Fri, 18 May 2007 17:26:42 +0000

Via Vecosys‘ “VERY trusted source” comes the rumor of the day – Google is set to acquire Feedburner!
According to the source the delay in announcement is solely due to the delay in closing the DoubleClick deal and should be out soon thereafter.

The rise in popularity of RSS feeds caused Adsense and DoubleClick a big hit since their ads are no longer displayed (in most cases) and such a deal would make sense since it will give Google an opportunity to place their ads across all these feeds.

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Google Searching, For a Snake…

Gilad — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:44:48 +0000

The recent search news from Google do not involve new tools or services from the company, not even a complaint about the company’s offerings. It is a search for a 3-foot python snake who has suspected to have invaded the company’s New York offices…

“What you have heard is in fact true and not an April Fools’ Day joke,” said Google’s spokesman, “We are confident that we have the appropriate resources in place to resolve this issue as quickly as possible in the best interests of both the Googlers in our NYC office and Kaiser the snake.“

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Acquisition Rumors for Google & Yahoo

Gilad — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:25:48 +0000

Two big search-related acquisition rumors were spread today, the one related to Yahoo being acquired by AT&T and the second about Google acquiring Dish Network.

MSNBC was the first to post Yahoo feels the pressure of AT&T alliance in which they write:

AT&T was trying to renegotiate a five-year-old agreement under which the US telecoms giant has sold its broadband DSL service under the joint AT&T Yahoo brand name.

Then it was VentureBeat which posted Rumor: Google about to sign ad deal with Dish Networks:

Google is about to sign a deal with Dish Network, the nation’s second largest satellite TV company, to deliver ads for Dish’s network

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Google Loses the GMail Name in Europe

Gilad — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:59:31 +0000

A little over a year ago, Google lost a battle for using it’s GMail name in the UK, and now it lost it’s right over the name in all of Europe.

The Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM), the body which is responsible for European community trademarks, rejected Google’s appeal after a stiff battle with German-born venture capitalist Daniel Giersch.

In it’s defence, Google claimed that the names are not confusingly similar as Giersch, who owned the trademark for over 6 years, uses it for a competition service to the Deutsche Post. They even offered him $250,000 to settle for the name, but he refused and called Google’s behaviour “very threatening, very aggressive and very unfaithful.”

So from now on, all European users will not see any reference to Gmail but only GoogleMail.

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The GoogleTV Prank

Gilad — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 14:45:41 +0000

Over the past weekend, two videos which were uploaded to YouTube caused a mad wave of rumors about an upcoming GoogleTV channel. The videos, titled How to Sign Up for GoogleTV Beta and UPDATE: GoogleTV Beta, are now considered to be a hoax as DNS mis-matches and other issues are claimed to be the proof for it for the video’s authenticity.

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When Google’s Employees Become SEO

Gilad — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:56:36 +0000

For a long time now, many SEO’s have been playing with the question “what would happen if Matt Cutts quit Google and joined an SEO firm?” After all, Matt leads Google quality team which is mainly in charge of fighting spam and exploits.

While that hasn’t happened (yet), NMA reports this week that four guys off Matt’s Ireland crew quit their Google job and went solo to start their own SEO firm…

I am not sure what are the consequences of such a move and it seems as if Google may like to bound such employees by contract from making such moves, but it is sure as hell a very juicy move.

[via ThreadWatch]

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