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YouTube cannot seem to stay away from controversy. From being sued and threatened both domestically and globally over copyright issues to the…
Google has a lot of fans, and has made friends with any number of businesses. Now the company has befriended the state of Pennsylvania. The "Google Earth geospatial image browser" is set to launch "on the official tourism website of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, VisitPA.com."
Last month, Yahoo and IBM announced a Yahoo optimized version of OmniFind, an enterprise search utility. Less than three weeks later, Google is now offering up new features found within its own business search utility.
While browsing Google Labs, I noticed new Firefox extensions.
Something entitled "The Sausage Manifesto" harkens to memory surreal Kids In The Hall sketches - kissing the sausage box; a scratchy-throated table-pounding old Canadian with a one-track disgustingly syrupy mind - but that's not what it is. The Sausage Manifesto is a marching order written in the chilly twilight of a Chicago morning: a writ demanding that search engines do more about click fraud.
A firestorm of negativity has surrounded Google in recent weeks concerning the company's practice of advertising its own services as "tips" in SERP pages queried by users. At least for today, the company has put that practice on hold.
