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The analysts who recently advised clients to sell Google have been proved prescient, as Google's now-public fight with the Department of Justice…
When it comes to searcher satisfaction, perception may play just as large a role as the actual quality of the search results. A recent study by Keynote Systems concluded that though there seems to be little difference in actual search results quality across the most popular engines, Google still came out on top as the preferred engine among study participants.
Google rolled out Gmail to tremendous applause, Google Earth found a devoted following for its services, but Google Video has received nothing but grief from the online world.
The new photocasting feature in Apple's iPhoto doesn't comply with RSS standards, a shortcoming the RSS community has pointed out vociferously.
Time Warner's AOL recently purchased Truveo.com, a video search site that opened its virtual doors to the public in September 2005; only three months later the startup became part of AOL and may be the enabling mechanism behind its forthcoming video store.
2006 is going to be a year where the creators of web technology have the opportunity to make their services better in terms of integration, usability, and usefulness.
