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Google Dashboard Bows to Users? Privacy Concerns (PC World via Yahoo! News)

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

In a big concession to users’ privacy rights, Google launched what it calls Google Dashboard – a tool which gives Google account holders a single view of all of the data associated with their Google accounts.

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Google providing better view of personal data (USA Today)

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Google is offering a new privacy control that will make it easier for people to see some of the information being collected about them.

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Microsoft CEO eyes Yahoo partnership outside U.S. (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday the company could look to extend its search engine partnership with Yahoo outside the United States, if it gets regulatory approval.

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Yahoo To Partner On Real-Time Search Development? (redOrbit)

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Unnamed sources said on Tuesday that Yahoo is running tests with several real-time search partners in an effort to match its rivals in providing up-to-the-minute Internet search results, Reuters reported.OneRiot, whose data will be available initially to about 10 percent of Yahoo’s users, is among the companies providing real-time results to Yahoo on a trial basis, according to a person familiar …

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Yahoo teams with OneRiot on real-time search (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

Yahoo Inc, looking to match rivals in providing up-to-the-minute Internet search results, is running tests with several real-time search partners, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

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Google Chrome Beta Gets Bookmark Sync (PC World via Yahoo! News)

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

The latest beta version of Google’s Chrome Web browser is making it easier for you to keep track of all your favorite Web sites across multiple computers.

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Yahoo Beats out Google on O2 Germany (PC World)

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Yahoo said it won a mobile search contract with O2 Germany, displacing Google.

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Yahoo Beats out Google on O2 Germany (PC World via Yahoo! News)

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Yahoo said it has replaced Google as the search provider on O2 Germany’s mobile portal, continuing the battle among search providers for placement on mobile phones.

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Google voice search learns Chinese (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

Google’s voice search tool now understands Chinese. The Internet giant announced on Monday that users of Nokia S60 series mobile phones could now search the Internet using voice commands in Mandarin Chinese.

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Yahoo Signs Mobile Search Deal With O2 Germany (WebProNews)

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

More than 15 million Germans should now have a little additional Yahoo in their lives.  Yahoo’s signed a mobile search deal with O2 Germany, and the American company’s search engine and a number of other services are getting promoted as a result. A press release made into semi-English by Google Translate stated, “Besides mobile search by O2 customers get through links from the O2 portals direct …

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