links for 2007-12-01
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Google Experimental Search Adds Personalized Page Ranking | Compiler
Google has rolled out a new option in its Labs-based experimental search program which allows you to rank and re-order search results.
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Google Testing OpenID with Blogger, May Offer OpenIDs to Users
Google’s “Blogger in Draft” program that tests functionality for Google’s popular Blogger blogging platform has rolled out OpenID support for comments.
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Another $60 Million for Facebook
When Facebook took a $240 million investment from Microsoft last month at a $15 billion valuation, they became, in theory, one of the most valuable Internet-only companies on the planet.
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Facebook Overhauls Controversial ‘Beacon’ Ad System; Users to Get More Control
Once again, Facebook is refining a controversial program that overstepped privacy bounds and drew negative reaction from tens of thousands of users.
Google Inc. announced Friday that it will apply to bid for wireless spectrum in a January Federal Communications Commission auction. The Mountain View, Calif., Internet company had previously said it would probably bid for spectrum, a chunk of the airwaves that can be used to provide mobile phone and Internet services.
(tags: google internet spectrum)
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As Wikipedia Moves to S.F., Founder Discusses Planned Changes
Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia created and edited by the masses, is picking up its St. Petersburg, Fla., roots and replanting them in San Francisco, where it plans to grow its operation.
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Publishers Aim to Set New Limits for Search Crawlers
News publishers complained that Google was posting their news summaries, headlines and photos without permission. Google claimed that “fair use” provisions of copyright laws applied.
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News Web sites seek more search control
Leading news organizations and other publishers have proposed changing the rules that tell search engines what they can and can’t collect when scouring the Web, saying the revisions would give site owners greater control over their content.
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Facebook has closed another big tranche of its planned funding round, this time from an unlikely source: Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, who has made an investment of $60 million, reports Kara on AllThingsD.
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Bain Sees TV Time Growing Faster Than Web
Time spent watching television will rise faster than leisure time spent on the Web through 2012, while a major audience for Internet video could take even longer to develop, consultancy Bain & Co said on Thursday.
