As you type into a search box on Yahoo or Google, a list of suggested keywords pops down below to help you complete your search faster. Today, Yahoo turned on a local component to its keyword autocomplete feature. The search assist now serves up different keywords based on your location.So if you type in "Santa" in northern California, "santa clara county" might be the first suggestion, but if
Yahoo Search Assist Gets More Local, But Google Gets It Right
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Offerpal Gets Its Third CEO In A Year, Garrick Named Executive Chairman
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Offerpal Media has just announced that Mihir Shah has been named president and CEO, while chairman and former CEO George Garrick has been named executive chairman. This is Offerpal's third CEO in a year; Anu Shukla left the company last November following the Scamville drama and was replaced with former Mochi Media CEO George Garrick. Shah was the company's chief revenue officer and joined Offer
DoubleClick Ad Planner’s Bestiality Bug (Screenshot)
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Is Google serving up ads targeted at sites which categorize themselves as "extreme porn," bestiality," and "child porn"? Rest assured, it is not. But if you are a website publisher using DoubleClick's Ad Planner to select categories to match your site to advertiser's interests, you might think so. The screenshot at right and below shows what one publisher found when choosing self-descriptive c
Tweetmeme’s Button Impressions Collapsed 20% After Twitter’s Button Launched
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It was only a year ago that Tweetmeme declared their intention to be the king of retweets. And for most of the past year, that was the case. Their retweet button was everywhere. Of course, that was before Twitter launched its own button last month. The result of that introduction? An immediate 20 percent drop off in button impressions per day, Tweetmeme found Nick Halstead noted today.Luckily for
A Closer Look At Apple’s Latest Patents
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Apple has been granted nine new patents, and I thought I'd take a look at the claims therein and see whether they match up to the descriptions, and whether they seem (to this humble blogger) like realistic items for which to gain exclusive rights. I've included links to all the patents, but the USPTO office is behaving strangely, and often returned an error when I tried to pull up documents. Thos
Is Digital Eavesdropping Evil? Depends Which Country Is Doing It (TCTV)
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First we had the Google vs China debacle, then came Saudi Arabia's tussle with RIM. And now it's India's turn: threatening to block RIM, Google and Skype unless the companies agree to set up localised servers, all the better for state monitoring of communications.Curiously, compared to the outrage levelled at the Saudi and Chinese governments, American reaction to India's move has been pretty mut
'Earth-like' Exoplanet Could Have a Comet's Tail
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When the super-Earth COROT-7b was discovered in 2009, it was heralded as the rockiest, most truly Earth-like exoplanet yet. But a new study suggests it's more like a comet.
NASA Footage Sets Scene for Quantum Quest Movie
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Footage from seven ongoing NASA space missions provide hyper-realistic scenery for the 3-D animated film, while the voices of multiple Captain Kirks and Darth Vaders play the parts of space explorers.
Texas opens antitrust investigation of Google
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Attorney General Greg Abbott has asked Google for information regarding the complaints of several companies that Google is penalizing them in search results.
Corsair's HS1 USB Gaming Headset Is Comfortable [Headset]
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Corsair might only be known for their PC components—memory, SSDs, thumb drives and power supplies—but they're branching into USB audio gaming headsets as well. It's a natural progression, since their customers are gamers that want to optimize their setups. More »
Logitech's Affordable New PC Gamepad Controllers Look Sorta Familiar [Controllers]
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Logitech just announced a revamp of their Gamepad line of PC controllers, taking a little bit of visual inspiration from here and little from there (that means Xbox and Playstation) for three affordable new USB controllers: F310, F510, and F710. More »
This Is How a Supernova Shockwave Looks [Image Cache]
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See that pink ring glowing in the middle of space? That's the shockwave of Supernova 1987A hitting a gas ring that was ejected from the dying star 20,000 years before the fiery explosion. The Hubble keeps leaving me speechless. More »
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