Each Friday, we summarize the week in tech news, on Searchviews and elsewhere. Here are the big stories of this week. Happy weekend reading!
On Searchviews:
- EBay continues making changes, this time with job cuts.
- Google’s search share continued to rise in February 2008, but search volume dropped.
- YouTube (and Google News) was blocked in China due to coverage of protests in Tibet.
- Yahoo released its financial plan that it presented to investors in December 2007.
Elsewhere:
- China is now shutting down other video sites.
- Google didn’t win in the 700 mHz auction, but Search Engine Land explains how it still got some of what it wanted as a result.
- Forrester expands its Groundswell site, adding some cool, free tools.
- LinkedIn has added company profiles, which will give business websites with similar databases of companies some competition.
- Google universal search blurs the lines between search engine and destination site.
- Facebook adds new privacy features, with IM coming soon.
- Google presents its myriad free services to nonprofits in a special portal.
- The big G also opens its maps for user edits.
