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Last May 2009, Yahoo! bought Inquisitor plugin, which suggests selected keywords as one goes along entering letters into the search box, a particularity integrated into the browser, much like the option "Search Assist" already proposed on the Web by Yahoo! since a few months, or like "Google Suggest", integrated by default to the search engine.

The first version of Inquisitor was only available on the Safari browser and there was no doubt that new versions would arrive, allowing a wider dissemination of the tool. This is the case now with versions for Firefox and Internet Explorer that come to see the day. Still on the program, the possibility to run a search from suggested keywords beginning with the letters captured step by step, but also proposals of websites, sometimes in relation with sites recently visited by the user. Up to you to test it !

Image source: Yahoo!

See more:
http://www.inquisitorx.com/

Source(s) :
Inquisitor Expands to Firefox and IE (Yahoo!)

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Last April, Google launched a system to extract quotations within their search engine for daily news (Google News) called "Google In Quotes". In this first version, the extraction of quotes occurred only for the past month. Now, the engine has just announced that browse quotations could take place over the last five years.

The home page of the tool, which provides a selection of quotations from both candidates for the American elections (Obama and McCain), is also improved with expanded coverage supplied with people and topics of your choice (however, from a predefined list). Here is what was said by Eric E. Schmidt and Steve Ballmer (CEO of Google and of Microsoft) about their respective competitor:

Image source: Abondance

See more:
http://labs.google.com/inquotes/
http://labs.google.com/inquotes/#edition=4

Source(s) :
Five years of quotes in Google News (Google)

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According to the New York Times, Google should have purchased a new aircraft (after their Boeing 757 and 767 as well as their two Gulfstream V) in the form of a Dornier -Dassault-Breguet Alpha Jet, a fighter plane well known in France as it is on this type of aircraft that flies the famous "Patrouille de France".

The entire fleet - which is all of the company H211 LLC, itself owned by Sergey Brin, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, the three managers of Google - is based on the airport in Moffett Field, which belongs to NASA and is located very near the headquarters of the company, based in Mountain View, California.

Image source: New York Times

See more:
http://www.patrouilledefrance.com/

Source(s):
A New (Fighter) Jet for Google's Founders? (New York Times)
NASA: Google execs' fighter jet is for research (Mountain View Voice)

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A few days ago, Google released their financial results which showed that this small business was not aware of the crisis, with profits of 1.3 billion dollars for a turnover of 5.54 billion, an increase of 31 per cent in one year.

A few hours later, it was the turn of Yahoo! to announce its results with a net profit of 54.3 million dollars, while it was 151 million twelve months earlier ... Result: Yahoo! should dismiss 10 per cent of its global workforce, or 1 500 posts, after the thousands already conducted earlier this year. It is not yet known what areas/ services and which countries will be affected first.

Yahoo! hopes though to make savings of 400 million dollars and hold up the serious crisis they are going through. Will that be enough for the portal and their CEO Jerry Yang ( photo below )? We hope for them ...

Image source: Yahoo!

See more:
http://info.yahoo.com/

Source(s):
Yahoo! Reports Third Quarter 2008 Financial Results (Yahoo!)
Google Announces Third Quarter 2008 Results (Google)

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Google recently announced that they release the source code for Android to make it a 100 per cent Open Source project, provided under Apache licence. A new site, entitled " Android Open Source Project ", offers many tools such as mailing lists, programming guide lines and, of course, also the source code itself. Though Google expects that the developers' community will expand and improve the available applications on their customizable mobile platform.

Image source: Android

See more:
http://source.android.com/

Source(s) :
Android is now Open Source (Google)

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David Durand-Pichard, the vice-president of the "search engine optimizer" consultant' association SEO Camp, also in charge with issues relating to employment, introduced almost two weeks ago the results of the study that was carried out this summer within som hundred employers and recruiters.

According to this study:
- Over 54 per cent of the "search engine optimizer" consultants, recruited in France are self-taught. Some are more specifically self-taught in performing stand-alone SEO services, having by the way many and various kind of qualifications. All roads seem to lead to SEO: it does not relieve today a need to follow a specific path or route to practise this kind of activity.

- Two thirds of the companies that recruit receive, on average, only 5 CV by post. From the employers' own admission, the profiles of the candidates have very different qualifications, often insufficient. In short, there is more supply than demand and "qualified SEO" consultants remain rare pearls ...

- The wages of junior SEO are between 20 and 30 k Euros, 80 per cent of salaries are within the range 23-29 k Euros. Confirmed consultants' salaries lie rather in the range 32 - 35 K Euros, and recognized "experts" (who form a very exclusive club) are rather offered wages between 45 and 52 k Euros.

Image source: SEO Camp

See more:
http://www.seo-camp.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/l%25e2%2580%2599emploi-dans-le-referencement.ppt (Format PPT)

Source(s):
Etude sur l'emploi dans le référencement (SEO Camp)

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A few months ago, Google proposed a service entitled "First Click Free" available on Google News, their daily news research site. The idea behind is to index even restricted payable content requiring loging in to a publisher's Web site by allowing access to Google crawlers to go through its content. Thus, a site that suggests, for example, articles within a restricted fee payable space, with login request, will then "recognize" the Google crawler and "admit" it passing through to index the corresponding information. As Google has indexed the content, it becomes available to the surfers running for searches. The principle of this system would be that the first page found within the registrated area is available for consultation by the user free of charge, but to see the full text of the document and complementary information would require subscription and payment from users.

The idea is quite surprising, especially as Google's proposal here may be considered cloaking, a practice that has often been denounced as being spamdexing. On the other hand, some publishers of Web sites will certainly hesitate before providing payable content to Google for free ...

Source de l'image : Buckeye Secure

See more:
http://www.google.com/support/news_pub/bin/answer.py?answer=40543&topic=11707

Source(s):
First Click Free for Web Search (Google)

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Tuesday, October 28, 2008

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Updating of In Quotes, a quote extraction search tool within Google News

Google's Air fleet have been enriched with a Jet

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Google releases the source code for Android

SEO Camp publishes a study about the profession as a "search engine optimizer" consultant in France

Monday, October 27, 2008

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