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Pandia July 20th
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BBC movie and video archive online
(July 25 2004) BBC Worldwide recently launched the web site BBC Motion Gallery. Right now you can find 10000 movie clips from BBC’s extensive archives on the site – and that’s only the beginning.
Lars Våge writes about the new BBC movie and video site.
AskJeeves grows in importance
(July 20 2004) AskJeeves has increased its number of visitors by 150 percent from May to June. The number of monthly unique visitors was 15.7 million in May, 39.3 million the month after, according to comScore Media Metrix.
Although AskJeeves remains the "little brother" among the major search engine companies, the increase is a clear signal that the company does not plan to go the same way as so many other search companies, i.e. into oblivion.
It should be noted that the increased is not due to more surfers visiting the AskJeeves site. The company recently acquired Interactive Search Holdings, which owned several portals, including banner free MyWay, the "lottery" search site iWon, old timer Excite and the search gateway MySearch.
Nor does the increase mean that the number of searchers using the AskJeeves/Teoma search technology and search index has more than doubled. None of the acquired sites uses the AskJeeves Teoma search engine technology by default. Excite is a metasearch engine that mixes results from various search engines, MyWay and MySearch let you choose between various search engines (AskJeeves/Teoma included), while iWon continues to be powered by Google.
See also dmNews
Google starts giving away image software
(July 19 2004) Google recently bought the Picasa digital photo company, and has started giving away their image management software for free.
Picasa lets you transfer photos from your digital camera, organize and search for pictures, edit, print, and share photos (for instance on blogs), create slide shows, order prints and more. It is a bit like Apple's iPhoto really.
The acquisition of Picasa is probably another part of Google's plan to conquer our desktops. Google is also planning a desktop search appliance.
Microsoft to integrate Lookout email search technology
(July 19 2004) Like Google (see above), Microsoft has its own plans for dominating people's desktops. They are preparing a search facility that will combine the forthcoming MSN web search engine with search on your own network and PC.
One part of this plan is improving the quality of search for local emails.
Google's answer to this problem is to use Google search technology in their new GMail online email program (to be launched shortly). You search your own mailbox as you would search the web.
Microsoft sticks to its own Outlook email program. Outlook has an advanced, but hopelessly cumbersome, search interface. Microsoft is now planning to improve Outlook search by integrating the Lookout search technology.
Lookout's software is currently an add-on to Microsoft's Outlook e-mail program -- a toolbar that lets users search their e-mails, contacts and calendar information. The Lookout program can also be used to search other parts of a PC.
Lookout will no longer be developed as a separate program.
Google wins google.no domain
(July 15 2004) The Norwegian company SMSFUNN has for some time been selling "google.no" sunglasses at the google.no domain.
Google brought them to court and lost the first round. Now, however, an Oslo court has ordered them to transfer the domain to Google Inc. within 14 days.
Google knows the value of its trademark, and will do all it can to protect it.
Source: Aftenposten
Google to launch audio and video search feature?
(July 15 2004) The New York Post reports that Google is planning to include technology that enables you to search the Net for audio and video clips.
This was apparently revealed during a talk that Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page had with investors and media executives.
Both AltaVista and AlltheWeb (owned by Yahoo!) and AOL already offer search for audio and video clips. As more and more web surfers have sufficient bandwidth to enjoy multimedia online, it might be necessary for Google move in the same direction to keep their position as market leader.
The main problem with online audio file search engines has been that so many of the files available online are illegal MP3 files. Any company providing access to such files risks angering the record companies. However, the establishment of new paid services like the Apple Music Store should make it possible to make a "legal" search engine worth while.
Also, Google recently bought the company Picasa and so got their hands on technology that lets the user administer and exchange digital photos.
This technology will be used to facilitate the publication of photos in Google's web log service Blogger. But it can easily play a role if Google decides to launch a multimedia feature.
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