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Archived blogs for the week of April 3, 2006

1144 - April 6, 2006 - 5.23 PM EST

Google awarded San Francisco Wi-Fi project

Yesterday, the city of San Francisco awarded Google and EarthLink a contract to provide the California city with a wireless Internet network.

Under Google and EarthLink's joint proposal, free and paid wireless Internet access services would be available throughout the city.

Chris Vein, executive director of the Department of Telecommunications and Information Services for the city of San Francisco, said today he expected that negotiations with EarthLink and Google would go smoothly.

Work on building the network could begin in 2006 and would be completed within a few months.

In response to a report that came out today from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center that concluded the Google-EarthLink bid was among the worst on protecting user privacy, Vein said he had not read it.

Privacy was one of the issues considered by San Francisco TechConnect, the committee that selected the EarthLink proposal, Vein said, adding that the panel "felt comfortable enough with the total package of the deal that we should negotiate with EarthLink and Google on issues like privacy and security going forward."

In response to concerns that the wireless network would not penetrate inside buildings adequately enough to be considered true "universal" coverage for city residents, Vein said that issue too would be discussed with Google and EarthLink.

"As we negotiate the deal we will push for universal affordable access ... as close as we can to" reaching throughout every building, he said.

Google and EarthLink said they were happy to have been the winning bidders.

Posted on Businessblog™

1143 - April 5, 2006 - 10.33 AM EST

Become.com launches new shopping search engine

Become.com has formed a partnership with Transcosmos Corp. of Japan to launch Become Japan.

The new entity will be the first International expansion of Become.com as part of their Asian expansion project which will include the proposed rollout of Become Korea slated for July 2006.

Become Japan will focus initially on product research and reviews using the company’s patent pending AIR(TM) (Affinity Index Ranking) search technology.

"Japan is one of the world’s most vibrant economies and they have actively embraced online shopping which now accounts for about 30 percent of all Japanese direct marketing sales,” said Yeogirl Yun, founder, chairman and CTO of Become.com.

Posted on Businessblog™

1142 - April 3, 2006 - 1.17 PM EST

Ask.com launches RhymeRank™

Ask.com announces the launch of RhymeRank, a new search technology capable of producing related search results that rhyme with a searcher’s original query.

Ask.com's new product is located on the right-hand side of the Ask search results page, under the heading, “Rhyme your Search.”

“When combined with our site’s already-powerful “Narrow Your Search” and “Expand Your Search” capabilities, “Rhyme Your Search” sets Ask.com apart with the unprecedented ability to suggest phat new ideas for your search.”

RhymeRank was developed at a top-secret laboratory near Ask’s headquarters in Oakland, California.

It is based upon the educational theory that people commit information to memory more effectively when it is phonetically consistent. Understanding this, Ask hired dozens of experts to develop algorithms capable of producing the best and most irrelevant rhymes.

Posted on Businessblog™

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