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Though lawsuits have been filed in the past over such statutes—two years ago Yahoo! was sued by French groups over auction pages it hosted selling Nazi paraphernalia—this is the first indication of preemptive action taken by an American company to avoid such foreign legal troubles. Though well-intentioned, both the laws and Google’s reaction to them are deeply unsettling...
...true test for Google will be in its ability to choose headlines that people want to read. And that's certain to improve with time as the company refines its technology. Let's remember, Google came late the search engine party and quickly demolished the other players - even Yahoo! uses its search engine. The news service may very well follow a similar trajectory. So if the portal wars are over, somebody clearly forgot to tell Google...
...quivering that Google has caused among old-media players, ink-stained editors have little to worry about. Rather, Google's move is a swift jab in its slugfest with Yahoo! Not long ago the twosome played nice, but now they are fisting it out to be Portal Supreme. For the moment, Yahoo! News unquestionably has the edge. Devotees trust the site for up to the minute headlines, photos, and commentary from a cadre of well-known sources. Yahoo! also has well-trodden daily features such as "most popular photo" and other favorites. Most news junkies won't jilt...
...Yahoo! might have the edge right now, but that could evaporate as fast as Colin Powell's opposition to war in Iraq. Indeed, Google News is an innovative stab at solving the info-glut problem that plagues so many of us. In a world of proliferating headlines from around the globe, news aggregation might be best left to the machines. After all, can any human editor really keep pace? The appetite for international news exacerbates the problem. Al Jazerra was an unknown news service for years and now suddenly Americans are interested in its reporting from Qatar. And that plays...
...important reason that demand is growing for customized IM and group-chat tools. Unlike corporate e-mail systems, which typically use networks and servers controlled by the client company, instant messages on the consumer-oriented IM systems move across public networks and through servers controlled by AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo--an arrangement in which sensitive business information is considered more vulnerable to eavesdropping by hackers. Says John Tang, an engineer at Sun Microsystems: "Companies don't feel comfortable sending messages out through their firewalls to a server that somebody else has control over." Besides, says Jennifer Belissent, senior product manager...