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My 2 featured articles for the week ending December 17:

News archives for the week of Dec. 20, 2004:

685 - December 23, 2004 - 1.31 PM EST

Christmas and New Year's Holidays

As I always do this time of year, I will be taking some time off to be with my family and friends for X-Mas and New Year's. This is one of my favorite time of the year, if only we can get rid of the rain and instead get more snow...

I will be back Jan. 5 in better shape than ever.

This has been a great year! To all our many readers all over the world, I want to extend my best wishes for a Merry Christmas and the best New Year there is.

Serge Thibodeau.

Posted on Businessblog™

684 - December 23, 2004 - 10.42 AM EST

More on the iProspect buyout

Underscoring the first and largest acquisition of a top search engine marketing company by a major foreign holding, Isobar will acquire iProspect for $50 million.

This deal marks the seventh overall acquisition for the global agency network Aegis, which now owns major interactive shops in France, the U.K., Germany, and Spain.

In total, Aegis, a London-based advertising conglomerate, has more than 350 clients through 36 offices in 24 markets worldwide, including major brands like Adidas and Pfizer.

Posted on Businessblog™

683 - December 22, 2004 - 9.51 AM EST

Isobar acquires iProspect

Isobar has acquired 100% of iProspect, the Original® Search Engine Marketing Firm.

The news marks Isobar's first acquisition in the U.S. market, and the 7th for Isobar globally in the past six months.

According to a report released by Jupiter Research last month, paid search will continue to outpace the growth of every other area of online advertising, moving from $2.6 billion in 2004, to $5.5 billion in 2009.

Posted on Businessblog™

682 - December 21, 2004 - 4.19 PM EST

The main differences between Yahoo and Google

Yahoo and Google have always strived for different goals that may become more apparent and even more distinctive as they move into 2005.

Yahoo, owner of the world's most popular Web site, is taking a more multidimensional approach as it strives to be all things for all people — a one-stop destination for recreation, work and research.

Google, owner of the leading online search engine, is devoted to a single-minded mission: transforming the way the world finds and stores information, even if that means sending people somewhere else.

Posted on Businessblog™

681 - December 21, 2004 - 12.23 PM EST

Google repairs desktop search tool security flaw

Google has fixed a security flaw that could have permitted hackers to search the contents of computers running the company's desktop search tool.

According to a statement issued Monday by the Web search company, it has rolled out a fix for the vulnerability. The flaw in the tool was discovered in late November by a Rice University computer scientist and two of his students.

A Google representative said, "We were made aware of this vulnerability with the Google Desktop Search software and have since fixed the problem so that all current and future users are secure."

Posted on Businessblog™

680 - December 21, 2004 - 11.11 AM EST

Alternative solution to searching books online

About 10 international libraries are combining their digitised book collections into a free text-based archive system, hosted online by Internet Archive, a non-profit organization.

All digitised content held in the text archive will be freely available to online users.

Two major US libraries have agreed to join the scheme: Carnegie Mellon University library and The Library of Congress have committed their Million Book Project and American Memory Projects, respectively, to the text archive. The projects both provide access to digitised collections.

Posted on Businessblog™

679 - December 20, 2004 - 7.05 PM EST

Security flaws in Google's desktop search tool

A computer scientist and two of his students at Rice University discovered a serious security flaw in Google's desktop search tool, that could potentially cause damages to computers.

The glitch, which could permit an attacker to secretly search the contents of a personal computer via the Internet, is what computer scientists call a composition flaw, the New York Times said.

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"When you put them together, out jumps a security flaw," Dan Wallach, an assistant professor of computer science at Rice in Houston, told the newspaper.

Wallach and graduate students Seth Fogarty and Seth Nielson discovered the flaw last month, the report said.

Posted on Businessblog™

678 - December 20, 2004 - 1.17 PM EST

Meet a new search engine: Seekport

Seekport expands into the UK and now offers an alternative to US-based search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Seekport, which already runs operations in France and Germany, claims to be the only search engine to support its technology with local index teams in each country.

The four-strong UK team will filter spam from searches and add relevant, country and market-specific content to produce customised UK results.

Seekport Internet Technologies’ managing director Joachim Kreibich said: “We can remove material from our index within half an hour of receiving a request.

Posted on Businessblog™

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