Google News on the March!
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Written By Reprise Media | January 26, 2006 | Share This
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Internet Explorer users ran into a weird Google glitch for a short time yesterday; they were forbidden from navigating beyond the first page of search results unless they downloaded Google Desktop. Google Blog reports that the search giant got things under control fairly quickly, but what the heck happened? Andy Beal at Marketing Pilgrim, who was first with the bug news, says, “Google [had] a transparent DIV tag that [was] interfering with the layer behind it.” Make sure to check the link for his illustrative screen cap.
Meanwhile, Google itself ran into a real-world glitch over its controversial decision to censor its search in China (our Erin Bradley had more on this yesterday): Congress is calling them in! Mitch Ratcliffe’s zdnet blog reports that Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, a Reagan Republican with a reputation for defending human rights, wants representatives from Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, et al., to testify before the International Operations and Human Rights Subcommittee February 13.
Google senior policy counsel Andrew McLaughlin provides a rebuttal of sorts to Google’s critics, saying, “While removing search results is inconsistent with Google’s mission, providing no information - or a heavily degraded user experience that amounts to no information - is more inconsistent with our mission.” Read the rest of that story here.
Rounding out this slow news day for Google, some tidbits:
-A Nevada court rules that Google caches are legit (from Cnet).
-Google’s upcoming unveiling of their “BigDaddy” data center, promising to fix some longstanding site indexing issues, is generating buzz at Directmag.
An AdWords desktop editor may now be downloaded by select beta invitees.
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