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Gary Price posts details on Google's new movie shortcut. Stick a "movie:" prefix on a keyword search and it'll bring up ...

A few recent tidbits worth reading: George Hotelling summarizes the rumors that Apple might be buying TiVo. Om Malik summarizes the rumors...

Michael Bazeley writes about AOL's entry into the crowded land of local search. For part of AOL Local, Topix.net will provide local ne...

I love TiVo. I can't imagine TV without it. TiVo has a feature, TiVo Suggestions, that tries to recommend shows you might like. It...

Newspapers are increasingly talking about personalized news. Mary Lou Fulton (VP, Bakersfield Californian) recently said : What if we thoug...

Havi Hoffman has some interesting tidbits on personalization in his post on the Yahoo Search Blog. The mainstream is not the only stream. ...

John Battelle posts on competing in the local search and yellow pages market: I asked [Peter Negulescu (VP, SFGate)] why SFGate isn't a...

Brad Feld (Director, Mobius Venture Capital) writes about trend-following in the VC industry: Every emerging market hits a point where ther...

Gary Price writes about the latest version of Google Toolbar. It includes a feature called Autolink: With "AutoLink" enabled, we...

Interesting tidbit on Yahoo's plans for personalized search from a HBS Working Knowledge article : Yahoo is able to collect data, such a...

Findory's newest feature, Favorites, makes it easy for readers to easily see their favorite news and weblog sources. For example, on th...

Steve Rubel and Nathan Weinberg speculate that Yahoo is building a weblog search similar to Technorati and Feedster after seeing evidence ...

Ross Mayfield (CEO, Socialtext) slams personalization in favor of social software: The basic problem with Personalization is that tailoring...

Rich Skrenta (CEO, Topix.net) has a long post that touches on the incremental web, streaming information based on keywords vs. topic, human...

Todd Bishop at the Seattle PI uncovers some amusing flaws in MSN Search's advertising. One particular MSN Search ad suggests that you s...

Ask Jeeves EVP Tuoc Luong says that they are considering making Ask Jeeves Desktop Search open source, partnering with the Mozilla Foundat...

Google has offered to help Wikimedia -- the non-profit that maintains the free, community-maintained, and very cool Wikipedia encyclopedia...

Bernard Moon has a fun article on his visit to the Social Computing Group at Microsoft Research. "We started with this little projec...

David Kirkpatrick at Fortune interviewed Marissa Mayer (PM, Google). I particularly liked what she had to say about expanding Google's...

Steve Rubel reports that CNet is about to launch its own feed reader, Newsburst . Welcome to the club, CNet. There's already integr...