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	<title>Omar Kattan &#187; Search News</title>
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		<title>Real Time Search &#8211; The Twitter Model</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/05/27/real-time-search-the-twitter-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 07:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think back, way back.  Remember when Alta Vista was senonomous with search?  How time flies.  Google came along and re-defined what search means and the rest is history, or is it? Is Twitter the next Google?  Maybe not yet, but to a large extent, Twitter is re-defining what search is by introducing the concept of Real Time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Search Engines Agree on Canonical Tag</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/02/14/search-engines-agree-on-canonical-tag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2009/02/14/search-engines-agree-on-canonical-tag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An agreement was struck yesterday by the three main search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) on the adoption of a new tag to tackle canonicalisation in the SERPs. Canonicalisation is the challenge of having multiple pages of the same page due to outdated software such as a content management system or forum. Examples of pages [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Search Wiki</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/11/24/google-search-wiki/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/11/24/google-search-wiki/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Google News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Thursday, Google officially launched its much anticipated &#8220;Search Wiki&#8221; application found within its personalised Google search accounts.  This move was hardly a surprise especially as Google&#8217;s been dabbling with the idea of search Wiki as an experiment for some time now. The idea behind search Wiki is simple.  Google now allows users to custom design their search results from within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Engines on the Search Block</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/07/30/new-engines-on-the-search-block/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/07/30/new-engines-on-the-search-block/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few months, two new search engines have been creeping their way into the limelight;  Cuil and Wikia Search. Quil (pron: Cool) was started by ex-Google engineers who now claim they have an index larger than that of Google&#8217;s.  While Wikia Search (brainchild of Wiki founder Jimmy Wales) harnesses the power of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News Flash &#8211; Adobe&#8217;s Product More Search Friendly</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/07/10/news-flash-adobes-product-more-search-friendly/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/07/10/news-flash-adobes-product-more-search-friendly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Adobe recently announced it is has developed its Flash technology to enable search engine spiders to read the content within it. In the past, search engines like Google were able to pick out links embedded in Flash files but unable to index the content within the Flash file.  So even though humans were able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSN Abandons Yahoo Bid</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/05/05/msn-abandons-yahoo-bid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/05/05/msn-abandons-yahoo-bid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 04:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After a few months of wrangling, MSN has now officially abandoned its efforts in bidding for Yahoo. Yahoo shareholders are now bracing themselves for a share slump as a direct result of this news.   MSN&#8217;s decision to officially bid for the world&#8217;s second largest search engine was made towards the end of January when it bid $45 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barbarians at Yahoo&#8217;s &#8220;Gates&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/02/04/barbarians-at-yahoos-gates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/02/04/barbarians-at-yahoos-gates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Unless your head&#8217;s been in the sand for the past week, you&#8217;ve probably heard by now that Microsoft has made an unsolicited offer to buy out Yahoo for $45 Billion.  You&#8217;ve also probably heard that Google has proposed an unholy alliance with Yahoo to save it from being swallowed. It all started just over 7 months ago when Jerry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSN to Buy FAST Enterprise Search</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/01/11/msn-to-buy-fast-enterprise-search/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2008/01/11/msn-to-buy-fast-enterprise-search/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MSN has announced that it will buy the FAST &#8220;Enterprise&#8221; Search engine for $1.2 dollars.  Fast is a Norwegian enterprise search company focusing on providing tailored search software and solutions to large global businesses.  The deal was announced last Tuesday and gives Microsoft a strong footing in the Enterprise search market where &#8220;Fast&#8221; has traditionally been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Universal Search Extends to Blogs</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/12/14/googles-universal-search-extends-to-blogs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/12/14/googles-universal-search-extends-to-blogs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in June I posted about SEO for Universal Search and how the future of search results will, in some form or another include images, videos, maps, news, books and now blog posts!  Yes, it is official folks, Google will in the coming weeks start to include blog posts as part of its search engine results pages (SERPS). This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASK Launches the Ask Eraser Privacy Tool</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/12/12/ask-launches-the-ask-eraser-privacy-tool/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/12/12/ask-launches-the-ask-eraser-privacy-tool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>
<category>ASK</category><category>privacy</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to Google&#8217;s promise to only keep search records for 12-18 months, asked has announced that it will allow its users to completely erase their search activity from the search engines within 2-3 hours.  This development comes only 6 months after the official announcement by ASK.  According to the ASK Eraser FAQ, users can now click a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Project &#8220;Google Body&#8221; &#8211; Indexing the Human Body</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/11/27/project-google-body-indexing-the-human-body/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/11/27/project-google-body-indexing-the-human-body/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google has announced that it is well underway in its plan to index the Human body.  This  news was announced by Google VP of Product Development Eric Hind who commented: &#8220;We&#8217;re happy now to extend search to information about human bodies, mine and yours, inside and out, from the number of follicles on my head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Acquires Zingku</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/09/28/google-acquires-zingku/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/09/28/google-acquires-zingku/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mobile Search]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google unofficially announced that it has acquired Zingku, a mobile social networking and communication platform, this is according to the unofficial Google Operating System blog. The Zingku service allows users to create and exchange invitations, mobile flyers as well as pictures with friends over the phone.  Zingku also allows users to integrate their mobile phones with a personalised website allowing them to easily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sergey Brin talks about the Google-NASA Partnership</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/09/18/sergey-brin-talks-about-the-google-nasa-parnership/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/09/18/sergey-brin-talks-about-the-google-nasa-parnership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sergey Brin is questioned about the NASA-Google partnership. He answers questions, delves into topics such as A.I. and even discusses Keyhole &#8211; which was backed by In-Q-Tel, the CIA&#8217;s front operation. Enjoy&#8230; YouTube DirektLink]]></description>
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		<title>Iran Blocks Google Access</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/09/17/iran-blocks-google-access/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/09/17/iran-blocks-google-access/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran has decided to block access to Google search and Gmail service.  This is supposedly part of a &#8220;clampdown on material deemed to be offensive&#8221; as reported by the Mehr news agency.  Hamid Shahriari,  secretary of Iran&#8217;s National Council of Information said,  &#8221;I can confirm these sites have been filtered.&#8221; Similar to China, Iran has very tough censorship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bebo &amp; Yahoo! announce strategic partnership</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/09/13/bebo-yahoo-announce-strategic-partnership/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/09/13/bebo-yahoo-announce-strategic-partnership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo! and Bebo, the UK&#8217;s largest social network, have forged an exclusive strategic partnership.  As a result, Yahoo! will sell the majority of Bebo&#8217;s display advertising in the UK and Ireland. This is Yahoo!&#8217;s first agreement of its kind with a social networking site, which will substantially increase the inventory available to it. This partnership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo! Buys Blue Lithium</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/09/05/yahoo-buys-blue-lithium/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/09/05/yahoo-buys-blue-lithium/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just in&#8230; Yahoo! has acquired Blue Lithium, a San Jose, California-based company with 100 employees.  The price tag for the purchase&#8230; a whopping 300 million dollars! (thats £149.4 million). The purchase was an all cash deal! Blue Lithium is the 5th largest advertising network in the US and the 2nd largest ad network in the UK, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube&#8217;s New In-Video Ad Format</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/22/youtube-new-in-video-ad-format/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/22/youtube-new-in-video-ad-format/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google announced today that it will be launching a new &#8220;in-video&#8221; ad format on its sister site YouTube.  The new ad format is supposed to be 10 times more effective than the existing ad formats.  The new ads will be in the form of &#8220;animated overlays that appear on the bottom 20 percent of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Moon</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/17/google-moon/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/17/google-moon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google has launched Google Moon in honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, They&#8217;ve also added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to make it even more interesting. This is what Google&#8217;s always been good at, making all the world&#8217;s information accessible to the average joe and jane on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jimbo&#8217;s Wikia Takes on Google</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/05/jimbos-wikia-takes-on-google/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/08/05/jimbos-wikia-takes-on-google/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 10:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Open Source Software]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago I wrote about building my very own Google using the open source software that is Nutch.  I actually did it but had to remove it from my server because the crawling sessions occupied too much space and resources on my server and caused it to crash a few times. This is one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digg Dumps Google Ads for MSN</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/26/digg-dumps-google-ads-for-msn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/26/digg-dumps-google-ads-for-msn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social networking site Digg has dropped Google Ads on its site for rival Microsoft AdCenter.  The details of the deal were not disclosed as both companies declined to comment. Digg is MS AdCenter&#8217;s second high profile social networking client, the first was Facebook which was signed up a year ago.  This is what Steve Berkowitz, a senior VP of Microsoft&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Allows Users to Control Cookie Length</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/21/ask-allows-users-control-cookie-length/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an unprecedented move, ASK (previously ASK Jeeves) has changed its data retention cookie policy to incorporate users&#8217; preference on how long they can retain personal search data. Ask decided to make this move after it conferred with the Center for Democracy and Technology.  This is what CDT Deputy Director Ari Schwartz said about ASK&#8217;s decision: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Germany to fund Theseus &#8211; a Google Rival</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/20/germany-to-fund-theseus-a-google-rival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:23:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The European Union gave Germany the nod to spend 120 million euros ($167 million) on research into Theseus, a search engine to compete against Google. The project boasts high profile partners including Siemens, SAP as well as other high profile companies and governmental/semi governmental institutions. Theseus aims to be a multimedia search engine and includes text translation tools as well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Launches Print Ads</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/19/google-launches-print-ads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search Engine Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a followup to its Audio Ads, Google has just launched its Print Ads programme in the US market. In a nutshell, Google Print Ads allows companies to run advertisements in local newspapers using Google&#8217;s Adwords web interface. Google Print Ads allows companies with little or no experience with print advertising to create, publish and manage their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google DoubleClick Deal Faces Congressional Inquiry</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/19/google-doubleclick-deal-faces-congressional-inquiry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 09:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s purchase of DoubleClick is facing a major hurdle this week as it get more heat from a US congress enquiry.  This has been the biggest set back to a $3.1 deal that has been controversial (to say the least) from the get go. The main issues being investigated are consumer privacy and anti competitiveness, both of which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Custom Search Business Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/17/custom-search-business-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I blogged about the Google custom search engine and how I experimented with it.  Well, today, Google officially announced that they&#8217;re launching Custom Search (Business Edition) The CSE Business Edition allows organizations to create a search engine and search results that are tailored to their industry including full control over search results presentation and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google sued by Ozzy Gov</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/12/google-sued-by-ozzy-gov/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Government is suing Google for misleading users by not distinguishing between paid and natural search results. Specifically, the lawsuit is being raised by the Australian Competition and Consumer Comission against Trading Post Australia Pty Ltd, Google Inc, Google Ireland Limited and Google Australia Pty Ltd.  The ACCC announced on their website that Google misleads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Presses Ahead With Personalised Search Results</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/10/china-presses-ahead-with-personalised-search-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/10/china-presses-ahead-with-personalised-search-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Taiyuan University of Technology is testing a search engine software agent that combines not only searched keywords when returning results but also personal data that&#8217;s been collected about the surfer. This is what Google et al have been trying to move to before they were slammed by the EU regulators for holding too much information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Buys Postini</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/09/google-buys-postini/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google announced that it has acquired web security firm Postini for US $625 Million in cash. Postini is best known for its corporate spam filtering and security service, but is also active in Instant Messaging and compliance areas.  Postini  bosts 35,000 businesses as customers and 10 million users, according to Google. This strategic purchase by Google afirms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google loses Gmail Battle in Germany</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/06/google-loses-gmail-battle-in-germany/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google has lost its battle to enforce the gmail trademark in the German market.  The battle was lost to gmail.de (stands for Giersch Mail) who also offer an email service. Google initially launched its mail service under the gmail (worldwide) trademark before Daniel Giersch sued the search giant. Google will still launch the Google Mail sevice in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Acquires GrandCentral Communications</title>
		<link>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/03/google-acquires-grandcentral-communications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.omarkattan.com/2007/07/03/google-acquires-grandcentral-communications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Omar Kattan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Search News]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Google announced that it has acquired GrandCentral Communications a company that manages voice communications.  The Purchase price is thought to have been in he vincinity of $50 Million. The GrandCentral Communication technology allows its users to manage all their telephone numbers under one account managed from a pc.  The technology also allows users to: have one central voice [...]]]></description>
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