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Yahoo has acquired the assets of the Inquisitor 3 plug-in for the Safari web browser. Mac developer Dave Watanabe created the plug-in, but will not become a Yahoo! employee. Watanabe will, however, temporarily consult for Yahoo.

Inquisitor 3 aids searchers by auto-completing their search keywords and delivers results directly in the Safari browser. When users begin to type in the chrome (you know, that area where the toolbars and menus are), websites and alternative search terms pop up to assist the searcher. Yahoo says the plug-in is similar to their Search Assist-type function, but within the chrome.

For the first time ever Google will host a worldwide live chat, where everyone will have a chance to hear and see Google Webmaster Central answer your questions.

If you own a blog, a Web site, or just want to move your company into the 21st century, do not miss this call.

Here are the details.

WHEN: Friday, March 28, 9am PDT / noon EDT / 16:00 GMT

Google will pay for the call. It’s free.

No strings attached.

The only 4 things you need to join the Google WebEx chat:

1. Phone
2. “Sufficiently-modern” Web browser
3. Internet connection
4. Search Engine Watch Membership

(Okay - just kidding (Google) about #4 - but a Search Engine Watch membership will help you prepare to ask Google the toughest search engine optimization (SEO) and paid search (PPC) questions).

Seriously - all you need is a phone, browser and Internet connection.

The call will be hosted by Google Search Evangelist and SES London speaker, Adam Lasnik, the heir-apparent to Google’s one-and-only Matt Cutts.

We know this isn’t an early April Fool’s Joke from Google because it’s signed off by Adam himself - and we quote:

“Talkatively yours,
Adam and the English Webmaster Help Guides”

We love the Google English Webmaster Help Guides. They have such cool accents. (Maybe Google will let the American Webmaster Help Guides answer a few questions too.)

Stay tuned for more on this historic Google event. All the techo-geek requirements for the WebEx chat? After the jump.

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Yesterday at TechFest, Microsoft Research unveiled three projects designed to enhance a user’s search experience. Two projects, SearchTogether and CoSearch, are aimed at collaborative search while SearchBar assists the individual searcher.

SearchTogether is a free Internet Explorer plugin that allows groups of people searching on multiple computers in different countries to collaborate their searches. The plugin will be available for download later this Spring and installs a sidebar on the IE web browser. SearchTogether’s features include group query histories, split searching, page-level rating and commenting, automatically-generated shared summaries, peek-and-follow browsing, and integrated chat.

CoSearch enables collaborative search while users are gathered around a single computer. This is facilitated by the use of multiple mice or cell phones. For example, a person might use their cell phone to maneuver a cursor on the screen and transfer data to their phone, while another user may use a mouse to follow links on the same page at the same time.

Searchbar is an advanced search history tool that operates as a sidebar in a user’s web browser. Users can save searches in order to return to them later and pick up where they left off. SearchBar organizes the searches in a hierarchical tree format. Users can write notes to themselves to remind them of future searches or any other information they wish to remember about their search queries.

Microsoft’s projects are comparable to recent efforts by Google and social media startups to personalize and socialize search. But Microsoft could take the lead on such efforts because these projects offer users increased control of their own research efforts. With the ability to easily keep personal accounts of search queries and share and receive results from people they know, instead of being purely subject to algorithms and the opinions of a broad audience.

Nine years and well over $4 billion later, AOL is dumping Netscape. The company announced today it will no longer support the first web browser many of us ever used.
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It’s not an official, made-in-Mountain View Google PC.  Not at all.  But the inexpensive Everex TC2502 gPC is about as close to that mythical beast as we’ve yet come.
Let’s key in on that word “inexpensive” for a moment - this computer is available through Wal-Mart for $199.  For that price, buyers won’t get a [...]

Users of the popular web browsing discovery tool StumbleUpon can rate and review the results of searches with the new SearchReviews feature.Reviews and ratings by fellow StumbleUpon users may be viewed by enabling SearchReviews. This additional content generated by StumbleUpon users will show up on results from Google, Yahoo, MSN/Live Search, Ask, and AOL.
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Miss America is taking steps to keep kids safe on the Internet with a new web browser designed especially for kids. Miss America, Lauren Nelson, spoke exclusively in a video interview with WebProNews about the launch. The browser is a partnership with the Children’s Educational Network.

Exclusive: Miss America Talks Net Safety

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Microsoft responded to news of Google’s arrangement with CapGemini to place Google Apps on desktops with a ten-point list of questions companies should consider if they think of switching.There’s nothing like a full-blown case of The Fear to bring out a point by point refutation of the client/server ecology of online applications. Microsoft’s list of [...]

Video sharing site Dailymotion, said today that an iPhone compatible version of the site is now available.

The new portal has a simplified graphic user interface and Quicktime compatible encoding for viewing Dailymotion’s online video through the iPhone’s Safari Web browser.
The new site will offer Dailymotion features including access to highlighted and top-rated content along with [...]

Did you miss the launch of Google Cash Detective in June? Don’t miss your chance now to get one of only 500 copies that they are selling. This sale will begin today at 12:00 noon CST. So make sure you are at the page and ready to go when it strikes noon.
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