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Here are a few stories making the news this week. Google makes news on a couple of fronts and another search engine prepares to launch.

Google responds to privacy concerns. Google was recently rated “worse on the web” when it comes to their privacy policy. Google has sent a letter to the group addressing their concerns. One of the concerns was the amount of time Google keeps search engine reports. Google officials say that they are working on to implement that after 18 months the collected data will be stripped of any compromising information.

Powerset to launch a natural language search engine. Startup Powerset’s natural language search engine looks to make keyword searches a thing of the past. Powerset will let users type in a sentence or thought into the search engine and return results based on that. Powerset hasn’t launched yet but people can sign up to be notified when they do launch as well as get a sneak peek at the service.

eBay pulls ads from Google. eBay, outraged over Google’s plan to throw a party in Boston for eBay auctioneers and buyers, pulled their ads from the search engine giant. The party was supposed to be a protest of sorts since eBay doesn’t offer Google Checkout as one of the payment options. eBay owns PayPal, the checkout service they do offer. Google has since apologized for the debacle. eBay hasn’t yet put their ads back on Google.

Search engine ads are projected to lose market share within five years. An interesting article that says more advertisers are preferring video ads.

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Posted in News on June 15th, 2007

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