A spain based WiFi company has collected 18 million euros in investment from Skype, Google , Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Currently the company is based in madrid, the man behind this successful project is Martin Varsavasky,

Martin Varsavsky – the founder of the Spanish portal ya.com and the Spanish telco Jazztel – describes it as ‘a global community of people who share WiFi connections’. In order to become a ‘Fonero’, as the company dubs it, you have to
install Fon’s software in your (compatible) router, place it near a window and then share bandwidth with other users around the world. Essentially, the aim of Fon is to create a free WiFi roaming environment for those who contribute WiFi signals via a local ISP.

visit Fon website here: en.fon.com

CNN reports of a possible three dumentional map navigation system being built with the collabaration nvidia corp, google earth and Volkswagen

“The two companies are working with the graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp.to build an in-car navigation map system and a three-dimensional display so passengers can recognize where they are in relation to the surrounding topography.
Volkswagen, working through its Electronics Research Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, in Silicon Valley, is working on other advancements, including automatic personalized information updates for the navigation systems.”

Human rights group of china wants google not to censor search results, they
are very disappointed by google’s recent move to provide censored results,

As Vnunet
reports this move by google can be because of greed to enter search market of
china, As many bloggers complain google has started deviating from its words
“Don’t be evil” , Yahoo’s hand over of search results to chinese goverment
led to the arrest of a chinese journalist, Microsoft censored a chinese guy’s
blog, now google is providing censored results in china,

macworld reports
“To illustrate how Google has censored information using the Google.cn
search engine, HRIC conducted a comparison of four Google sites: Google.com
in English, Google.com in Chinese, Google.cn, and Google.com.tw, the company’s
Taiwanese Web site. The group conducted searches on all four sites for a range
of phrases in Chinese and English.

HRIC’s comparison found that many Web sites were not found using Google.cn
to search for Chinese phrases such as “human rights in China” and
“death penalty,” as well as the author and title of a recently published
book on former Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. That book, Zhou Enlai’s Later
Years by Gao Wenqian, is banned in China.”

As matt cutts puts here
google is now targeting search engine spam in other languages too, Google has
banned ( update – possibly re included because of cleaning up of spam ) bmw.de
( official BMW site for germany ) from their search index, they did this because
the seo company for bmw used the infamous javascript mouseover redirect to show
one version of the page to the user and other version to the search engine,

One SEO company and their clients were totally banned from the search engine because
of this tactic, Now google has started catching this problem in other languages, BBC
has a nice right up on this, they had a word with the bmw spokesmen this is
why they said,

A BMW spokesman admitted the company used the doorway pages, a
practice known as search engine optimization and banned by Google.

But the spokesman insisted the company’s intentions were honorable.”We
did not provide different content in the search results to the final website,”
Markus Sagemann told the BBC News website.”However, if Google says all
doorway pages are illegal we have to take this into consideration.”

Our thoughts,

First of creating doorway pages are not part of search engine optimization,
we can call it search engine spamming definitely not search engine optimization,
next it is weird that BMW need to use such tactics simple and decent optimization
will get their site good results they don’t have to spam atall, They have to
blame their web designers for not designing a site compatible with search engines,
It is important that every company involved in web design should take search
engines in their mind when they do the design, I hope all SEO spammers will
learn a lessen from this,

Google has recently denied that it is looking for possible acquisition of Napster, There hasn’t been any official proof of google’s denial,

Googlemusic.com is owned by google for more than 3 years, Already they provide paid videos through their video service, Now we can see google is looking for capturing the music industry,

timesonline article says

“It has long been thought that Google would eventually offer online music. The company, which currently earns the majority of its revenues through internet advertising, is under pressure to show it can leverage its powerful brand in other markets. It already offers video services where customers pay for content.
Google sources have also told Times Online that the company is concentrating heavily on developing digital rights management systems to protect content providers’ copyright. Such work would be a necessary precursor to Google developing its own online music service. “

Read more here, business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,9075-2017867,00.html

eweek online magazine reports of the new google update datacenter big daddy , Many report big daddy results are spreading to many datacenters around the world, we see evidence for that too, to confirm that a google DC is live, check for the phrase sf giants , if the site sfgiants.com ranks No.1 then you are NOT seeing godaddy results, if the No.1 result shows giants.mlb.com then you are seeing big daddy datacenter results,

A small review on this was written by us, http://www.searchenginegenie.com/seo-blog/2006/01/review-on-new-google-update-big-daddy.html

Yahoo search blog http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000241.html reports that Andrei Broder a renowned search engine expert has joined yahoo search team,

Yahoo should be proud to have him in their team, He with Krishna Bharat, Susan T. Dumais, Steve Papa, Jan Pedersen, Prabhakar Raghavan , Sridhar Rajagopalan , Jeffrey Dean, Monika Rauch Henzinger etc had written many research papers, his huge list of research papers are here,

http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Broder:Andrei_Z=.html

Yahoo search blog reports

“Broder is co-winner of the Best Paper award at WWW6 for his work on duplicate elimination of web pages and at WWW9 for his work on mapping the web. And here’s a big list of Andrei’s papers. Andre also serves as chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Mathematical Foundations of Computing and has recently been named a 2006 IEEE Fellow “for contributions to the theory and application of randomized algorithms”.
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Google has agreed that it censors it’s search results due to regulations in effect in china, China which is still under communist rule have strict policies on surfing the web,
Google’s china results are served under the domain google.cn,

Because of government barriers set up to suppress information, Google’s China users previously have been blocked from using the search engine.

breitbart.com/news/2006/01/24/D8FBCF686.html

Recently nevada court ruled out google’s cache of web pages being a copyright infringement, a website owner filed lawsuit against google for caching his website and posting on their search results,

court ruled out his claim and judged google is not infringing copyrights,

check here – eff.org/IP/blake_v_google/google_nevada_order.pdf

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