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Is Twitter the Fastest-Growing Search Engine?

So what is the world’s fastest growing search engine? According to one expert, it isn’t Microsoft Bing or even Google but Twitter. Of course, you need to consider that the source might be a little biased since according to PC Magazine, the proclamation was made by Twitter CEO Biz Stone.

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Google Admits to Collecting WiFi Data through Street View

Coming on the heels of the uproar over Facebook’s recent privacy policy changes, PC World reports that Google has found itself embroiled in a privacy dust-up involving its Street View feature in Google Maps. The search engine has admitted that its StreetView cars – which travel around the world with a 360-degree camera collecting images for the Street View feature – were also collecting WiFi information from different neighborhoods, including payload information about data being sent across wireless networks.

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Track Santa’s Journey with Google Earth

Google has added new features to its Santa Tracker–a Google Earth tool that displays Santa’s voyage around the world on Christmas Eve using NORAD’s Santa-tracking radar.

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Real-Time Search Engine OneRiot Creates Ad Network for Social Media Apps

Search Engine Watch reports that real-time search engine OneRiot is attempting to unlock the Holy Grail for developers of social media applications – give them a way to make money off of their free apps. One Riot has recently launched RiotWise Trending Ads, a real-time ad network that allows Web and mobile app developers a chance to earn money through ad clicks.

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Google changes the way it indexes news articles

In a move to placate newspaper publishers who are concerned about the amount of free material that is currently available to Web surfers, PC World reports that Google has agreed to change the way that it indexes content on its Google and Google News pages.

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Google launches new e-commerce search engine service

Network World today reported that Google has launched a new search engine service specifically for large e-commerce sites. The new Google Commerce Search includes some of the most popular Google search features such as spell checker, query stemming and synonym recognition that are of particular use to e-commerce sites.

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Yahoo! announces open source distribution of Traffic Server

Yahoo! launched today an open source version of Traffic Server, a high performance application server for builders of cloud services. Traffic Server enables the session management, authentication, configuration management, load balancing and routing for an entire cloud computing stack.

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