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Search Engine Data Warehouse Magnetic Raises $4 Million in Funding

The New York Times reports that start-up Magnetic has raised $4 million in its first round of institutional funding. Previously called Domdex, the New York-based company uses data from search engines to help advertisers target their messages to specific demographic.

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Chinese Hacker Attack Compromised Google Password System

The New York Times reported on Tuesday that one of the key targets of the December 2009 attack on Google by Chinese hackers was Gaia, the company’s password system which controls the access of millions of users to the majority of Google features such as email and business applications.

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Google Executives Found Guilty in Italian Court

The New York Times reports that three Google executives were convicted today of violating Italian privacy laws in a ruling that the search giant denounced as an attack on freedom of expression on the Internet.

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Survey Results: Google Does Not Make You Dumber

Does Google make you smarter by bringing you access to a wide range of information? Or (as posited by analyst Nicholas Carr in The Atlantic) does having the ability to find anything you want at your fingertips make you lazier and less likely to engage in deep, critical thinking. That was the question posed by the Pew Internet & American Life Project to 895 technology stakeholders and critics through an online poll, and the results were fairly comprehensive – Google is not making us stupider.

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Google Expands Fast Flip with 55 Major Publishers

Google announced through its blog on Wednesday that it is expanding Google Fast Flip, a news reading service that aims to make the experience of reading newspapers and magazines online similar to reading hard copy versions. Fast Flip launched three months ago with a small handful of publications including the New York Times and Washington Post.

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Will 2009 be the Year of Google Chrome?

Google Vice President Sundar Pichai has told The Times Online that Chrome, Google’s Web browser that went into beta launch in September, will come out of beta testing in January 2009 and may come pre-installed on personal computers.

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Chitika Search Driven Ad Program Debuts

Developing a system to allow online advertisers leverage the advantages of consumer search, through a new new search-driven ad program, to target prospects based on search activity, is search engine, Chitika.

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Piper Jaffray Internet Summit, Features Yahoo!

The Fourth Annual Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit in Laguna Beach, California, recently included search engine company and web hosting provider, Yahoo!

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Local.com Deploys Business Video Content

Local.com Corporation, search engine network, as the first phase of a longer term strategy to capture share in the emerging local video market, has integrated local video ads throughout its website portal.

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Google Upgrades iPhone Mobile App

Google, building upon the previous version, offering two new ways for users to search the web, by voice and by location, has updated its iPhone app.

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