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Google Way Too Fascinated With Old Media

Television, radio, newspapers, telephony, and now magazines may vie for Google's attention. Did multi-billion dollar search ads become boring?

Google Video: Privacy & Personalized Search

Early last month the Google Blog released a video regarding privacy. On Monday they released a second video this time specifically discussing privacy as it pertains to personalized search. Once again support engineer Maile Ohye offers some clear explanations

NY Times 'My Times' Is Your Times

The 'My Times' personalized start page has opened to the website's readership as developers work on rooting out the remaining bugs in the service.

Facebook Discusses Personalized People Search

Facebook’s a formidable entry in the social networking field - we all know this.  But the company’s announcement that it is also doing well in people search (indeed, in Facebook’s own words, it is the “[m]ost used people search engine on the web”) came as a surprise to many.

The Best of SMX

Don’t have time to read our extensive SMX Advanced coverage? We still want you to be able to get something out of the conference, so here’s the best of SMX Advanced, from tips to soundbites and everything in between.

New Google Toys

First, Google comes out about their video fingerprinting tool (we mentioned it earlier this week) (via Barry Schwartz at SEL)

SMX: Personalized Search - Fear or Not?

Despite the session’s title, the Q&A quickly devolved into less of a discussion of “Fear or Not” and more into “Why did you do this to us, Google?!” (Followed closely by the response, “You’re not normal. Er, a regular user.”)

SMX: The Fear Hits Personalized Search

People want better search results, but the personalization technology that can enable it may be a little scary to the privacy-conscious.

Google Says You Are In Charge

All the fears being sparked over Google's dominance in search, along with its land-grab of DoubleClick's data mined consumer information, are really just an illusion.

Google on Personalized SEO

At the 2007 Search Summit - The Australian Search Marketing Conference, Aaron D'Souza, Software Engineer, Google Search Quality alongwith co-workers, Maile, Peeyush, Dan, Ada hopped from the US Google offices to share, discuss and learn topics that are dear to Webmasters/SEOs/SEMs/users and their like.