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Goodbye to Findory

I missed the news over my vacation that Greg Linden was shutting down Findory on November 1, just 15 days away.

Opera Mobile Switches From Google to Yahoo

Opera Watch reports that both the Opera Mobile browser (for smartphones and PDAs) and the Opera Mini browser (for mobile phones) are switching the default search provider from Google to Yahoo, ending a one-year agreement with Google for default search.

Findory Closing Down

Greg Linden delivered some news that just brings my whole day down: Findory, the greatest personalized news site the internet has ever seen, is closing down.

Opera User Javascript For Google Services

Ionut Alex links to an Opera user JavaScript designed to help Google services work better with the Opera browser.

Google To Be Number One In 2007

Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney says that, based on Comscore Data, Google will be the number one trafficked website by late next year. Comscore's top 4 currently (September numbers) stand at:

Google Earth Goes To The Polls

Ionut. Alex reports that Google Earth now contains an information layer about the upcoming U.S. midterm elections.

Findory Dumps Google Ads For Amazon

Findory, the personalization startup that remains my favorite news source, has switched its ad system from Google AdSense to Amazon Associates.

Google Helps Release Open Source OCR

Google has teamed up with UNLV to release Hewlett Packard's Tesseract OCR engine as an open source project.

Windows Vista Pre-RC1 Build Available Now

Microsoft has put up Windows Vista Build 5536, the pre-RC1 build, available for download. To install it, you'll need a valid product key, like from Vista Beta 2.

Ringtone Spam In Google News

Jeremy Wagstaff found some really bad examples of spam in Google News.