Maintenance Tools for Mac OS X

There are a number of Mac OS maintenance applications that promise to help you with various tasks. We'll take a quick look at a few of them here.

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Google’s Real Search Share 70 Percent?

Nielsen//Netratings released its monthly search rankings report, putting Google on top again, controlling nearly 50 percent of all US searches. But as those that follow the industry have come to expect, every month that number conflicts with two other metrics firms, both of which conflict with webmaster statistics.

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Germans Bail From Quaero Partnership

France and Germany had great plans to take on Google for search engine dominance, but the French will have to go it alone as Germany withdraws from the project.

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Are Year-End Search Lists Meaningless?

It's that time of year again. You know, the time for "The Year In Review" lists by the thousands telling us what was cool and popular in whatever niche you can imagine. Of course, the search engine industry is not immune from taking the yearly look-back, compiling most popular search lists for our amusement.

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Blogger Finds The Beta Exit

Google's Blogger service has been running a couple of versions in parallel: the old Blogger they picked up from Pyra Labs, and the new beta built to replace it. The new Blogger has shed its beta tag and is ready for all those people who make blogging a New Year's resolution.

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