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Google adds OAuth to widget mashups (CNET)
21 Nov 2008 at 10:42am
The search giant's Google Gadgets platform is adopting the open authentication standard for controlling privacy. Move follows June move to use OAuth for the Google Data API.

Personalize Your Google Results (WebProNews)
21 Nov 2008 at 9:31am
Google has announced SearchWiki , which is a new set of functionality that users with Google accounts can use to customize their results on any given search. SearchWiki allows users to move specific results up or down in rankings so that they appear in the preferred order when the same search is done in the future. SearchWiki also allows you to post comments on results , such as notes to ...

Google Adds Customization Feature to Internet Search (PC World)
21 Nov 2008 at 8:12am
Google is launching SearchWiki, a way for signed-in users to customize searches by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and...

Debating the Vices and Virtues of Google (New York Times)
21 Nov 2008 at 7:37am
The question on the table is ?Google violates its ?don?t be evil? motto.? You can vote ?yes? or ?no? yourself in the comments below. But first read some of the arguments put forward in an Oxford-style debate on the question held this week in Manhattan by Intelligence Squared US , a project of the Rozenkranz Foundation that runs a series of such discussions.

Google to shut down virtual world website (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
21 Nov 2008 at 3:28am
Google Inc said it would shut down its three-dimensional virtual experience website by year end to focus more on its core search, advertisements and applications business.

Google to shut down virtual world Lively at year-end (Los Angeles Times)
21 Nov 2008 at 3:20am
The Internet giant, which launched the site less than five months ago, says it wants to focus on its core search business. Not all Google Inc. endeavors turn into gold. Lively, a virtual world the Internet giant launched less than five months ago, will be shut down at the end of the year so Google can focus on its bread-and-butter search business.

Google empowers users to edit search results (AP via Yahoo! News)
20 Nov 2008 at 7:15pm
If Google delivers useless search results, just erase them and you won't see them again.

Google Personalizes Search with SearchWiki (New York Times)
20 Nov 2008 at 4:52pm
Google is set on Thursday to significantly change the way some people use its search engine. The company is introducing a new feature called SearchWiki that will allow people to modify and save their results for specific Google searches.

Google's virtual world Lively to die next month (AP via Yahoo! News)
20 Nov 2008 at 4:00pm
Lively, a virtual reality service from Google Inc., is dying.

Google picks Austria village for new European server farm (AFP via Yahoo! News)
20 Nov 2008 at 2:44pm
Google has bought a 75 hectare (185 acre) property in the north of Austria to erect a new European server farm within two years, the US Internet search engine giant said Thursday.