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Google News Alert for: tour
Langer Leads Champions Tour Event
The Associated Press -
Langer, who is active on the PGA Tour, is playing in his fourth
senior event since turning 50 on Aug. 27. He set the course record
with a 62 on Friday. ...
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LPGA Tour: The Best Value In Town
TravelGolf.com - USA
I know two things about the LPGA Tour in these here United States of
America. The first is that a terrific relationship of symbiotic
proportions is ...
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Gonzo Tour Kicks Off
MTV.uk - London,England,UK
Gonzo On Tour's 5th Birthday has started in style with a top notch
gig in Birmingham. Funeral For A Friend headlined the tiny Barfly show
supported by ...
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Randhawa takes lead at Indian Open
AFP -
Randhawa, a six-time winner on the Asian Tour, produced a superb
five-under-par 67 at a sun-baked Delhi Golf Club to tie with overnight
leader Chapchai ...
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Sonia to tour Rae Bareli
Times of India - India
LUCKNOW: Congress president Sonia Gandhi is expected to arrive in
parliamentary constituency Rae Bareli on October 16 for a three-day
tour. ...
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Rallying-Tour of Corsica second leg results
Reuters UK - UK
Oct 13 (Reuters) - Tour of Corsica second leg times from Ajaccio,
France on Saturday 1. Sebastien Loeb (France) Citroen 2 hrs 20 mins
58.600 2. ...
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McNeil claims lead at Frys Open
AFP -
LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) ― George McNeill put himself in pole
position to claim his first PGA Tour title on Saturday, firing a
five-under-par 67 for a ...
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More surgery for Freddie
The Press Association -
An ECB statement also suggests the 29-year-old is not thought likely
to be fit in time for the tour of New Zealand in February and March
next year, ...
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Teenager McIlroy remains on course to make history
AFP -
MADRID (AFP) ― Northern Irish teenager Rory McIlroy remained on
target to become the youngest European Tour winner after the third
round of the Madrid Open ...
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Google Blogs Alert for: tour
Virtual Book Tour
By johngrant
tour-banner.jpg I'm taking CULLOTTA on tour during the month of
November. You can view my Tour home page at:
http://virtualbooktoursforauthors.blogspot.com/2007/10/cullotta-virtual-book-tour-07.html.

Las Vegas and the Mob - http://johngrant.wordpress.com

The School - UK Tour and Début Single
By Tom(Tom)
The School, who have recently signed to Spain's Elefant Records, have
announced details of their début single and a UK tour. The single will
be All I Wanna Do and will be released next month. It's apt that the
band, who play indie pop ...
Indie MP3 - Keeping C86 Alive! - http://www.indie-mp3.co.uk/index.htm

THE LODGER ANNOUNCE US TOUR DATES...
By Dean(Dean)
There are nine dates planned for the East Coast tour - see The
Lodger's official website for full details. The Lodger - Many Thanks
For Your Honest Opinion [MP3]. The Lodger - Kicking Sand [MP3]. +
Official website [link] ...
Everyone Could Be Light Green - http://areyoulightgreen.blogspot.com/

Haunted Tours for Halloween Fun: East Coast Edition
By Kelly Amabile
Alexandria, VA: This Colonial Tour Group runs their original Ghost
and Graveyard Tour, as well as a special enhanced Halloween version,
several times throughout the autumn months. Atlanta, GA: How about a
haunted tour on two wheels? ...
Gadling - http://www.gadling.com

WHS Hosts Lantern Tour Sunday at Willowbrook Cemetery
By editor@westportnow.com(editor@westportnow.com)
The Westport Historical Society will host its fourth annual Lantern
Tour Sunday at 5 pm at the Willowbrook Cemetery, 395 Main St.
WestportNow.com Image Staples senior Jacob Henkoff portrayed Robert
Gault during last year's Lantern Tour. ...
WestportNow - http://www.westportnow.com/
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Google Cash Review - Good Or Bad?

I decided to write this Google Cash review after having a chance to
see what lies behind the training package's 100 percent satisfaction
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Keep America Beautiful, Inc. Partners with Google to Promote International Cleanup Weekend

STAMFORD, Conn., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Keep America
Beautiful, Inc., the nation's largest community improvement network,
is pleased to join forces with Internet information provider Google,
Inc. in promoting "International Cleanup Weekend," October 13-14,
2007.

The worldwide event, conceptualized by Google, is intended to
democratize local environmental stewardship activities by giving
individuals the event framework and collaboration tools they need to
choose areas of need in their own communities, organize an event,
invite friends, and share the results. Any location can be the focus
of a cleanup activity, including parks, beaches, rivers, trails, and
other public lands.

"Keep America Beautiful believes that each individual's daily choices
and actions have a huge impact on communities and on the environment,"
said Keep America Beautiful President G. Raymond Empson. "Google's
International Cleanup Weekend embodies this spirit of grassroots
action, enabled by modern technology. We're happy to be involved."

Integral to the concept are Google's "Google Maps" online tools
(maps.google.com). Event participants are encouraged to use Google's
easy-to- use interface to map the areas where they will be working.
Once mapped, they can then broadcast their event to other volunteers
and their larger communities.

Get started with your local cleanup activities, or see what's
happening on a global scale at
http://maps.google.com/help/maps/cleanup/.

About Keep America Beautiful, Inc.

Keep America Beautiful, Inc., established in 1953, is the nation's
largest volunteer-based community action and education organization.
With a network of nearly 1,000 affiliate and participating
organizations, Keep America Beautiful forms public-private
partnerships and programs that engage individuals to take greater
responsibility for improving their community environments. To learn
more about Keep America Beautiful, go to www.kab.org.

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Google proposes 'crumbled cookies' in privacy pledge

Google has proposed breaking up the information gathered on users of
its services in order to better preserve their privacy. The company
told the US Senate that it was investigating the measure after
consultation with privacy groups.

The company made the claim in a submission to the Senate's
investigation of its proposed $3.1bn acquisition of online advertising
giant DoubleClick. The Senate is probing the deal over widely-held
fears that it would create an online advertising monopoly, and that
the huge amount of information held by the combined company could lead
to privacy breaches.

Google's Chief Legal Officer David Drummond made a written submission
to the Senate outlining some of the action the company proposed to
take to alleviate privacy fears.

One proposal, according to Reuters news agency, was for a 'crumbled
cookie', which would be a way of storing personal information
separately without identifying it all as coming from one person or
machine.

"We have consulted with numerous privacy, consumer and industry groups
in developing these ideas and have endeavoured to be responsive to
their concerns," he wrote in his submission, according to Reuters.

After the hearing, at which he also gave oral evidence, Drummond told
reporters that he thought it was unlikely that the Government would
impose any conditions or controls on the deal.

Microsoft also appeared at the hearing, and General Counsel Brad Smith
told Senators that the deal would put Google in control of 80 per cent
of the market for both text and banner adverts on the internet.

Google's Drummond countered with the argument that if the market were
a monopoly, Microsoft itself would not have paid $6bn for DoubleClick
competitor aQuantive, a purchase the company announced in May this
year.

Google said at the hearing that it made a priority of privacy, but the
company has been in the headlines this week over an alleged security
breach in its Gmail internet email service. A security researcher
called Petko Petkov said that he had found a way to hack the Gmail
system and divert incoming emails to another mail account.

Google's privacy policies have been under fire in recent months. It
announced earlier this year that it would delete identifying
information connecting people to their Google internet searches after
18 to 24 months.

That provoked an outcry from users and privacy activists who had not
been aware that such logs had been kept indefinitely. The company
reduced the term to 18 months but still faces opposition from privacy
activists who believe that the data should not be kept.

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Google to Sell Web-Page Ads Visible on Mobile Phones

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17 ― In another step to extend its dominance of
online advertising, Google said Monday that it would begin selling ads
on Web pages that are viewed on cellphones.

The company said that its new product, AdSense for Mobile, would
establish a cellphone advertising network in which Google would match
ads with the content of mobile Web pages, much as it does online.

Other Internet giants, including Yahoo and AOLTime Warner, as well as
some start-ups, have also created advertising networks tailored for
mobile phones.

Dilip Venkatachari, product management director for AdSense, said the
ads would provide a new source of revenue for publishers and could
encourage more online sites to create mobile-focused Web sites. Like
most other Google advertising systems, ad prices will be set through
an auction and and advertisers will pay when a user clicks on its ad.

Mr. Venkatachari said Google had encouraged publishers to have no more
than two ads per mobile page, a smaller number than typically appear
on a PC's Web browser.

Google has been testing the system with a limited number of
advertisers and publishers this year. On Tuesday, it will open it to
all mobile publishers in 13 countries, including the United States,
Britain, France, China and India.

Last summer, Google began selling ads that appear next to search
results on mobile phones through a program known as AdWords. Last
week, it said that all of its online AdWords advertisers, which are
said to number in the hundreds of thousands, would be eligible to have
their ads appear next to search results on cellphones.

Google's further inroads into mobile advertising have long been
expected. But the market remains relatively small, and analysts do not
expect the new service to contribute much soon to Google's bottom
line.

Still, advertisers and publishers appear to be growing increasingly
comfortable with mobile advertising. AdMob, a start-up that runs a
mobile advertising network, showed 230 million ads in January and
expects to show about 1.5 billion this month, said Omar Hamoui, its
founder and chief executive.

"The reason that Google and others are getting in is that the market
is growing so rapidly, so people are getting very excited," Mr. Hamoui
said.

Earlier in the year, AOL acquired Third Screen Media, an AdMob
competitor, while Microsoft acquired ScreenTonic, a mobile ad company
based in Paris. On Monday, Nokia said it would buy Enpocket, a company
in Boston that displays ads on cellphones.

Microsoft said it was expanding a mobile search partnership with
Sprint first announced last November. Since then, Microsoft's search
technology allowed Sprint customers to look for ring tones and local
Web content, like restaurants and stores. Starting Tuesday, Sprint
customers will be able to use Microsoft's service to search the entire
Web on their cellphones.

In addition, customers will be able to choose to have Sprint track
their whereabouts, so that when they search for local content, they
will not have to type in their location.

Users will also have access to these services through voice-activated
technology, allowing them to speak into the device rather than
triple-tap or type in a keyword.

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Capgemini backs Google software

TECH CONSULTANTS Capgemini have decided that it will recommend
Google's online suite of office software to its corporate customers,
instead of similar offerings from Microsoft and IBM.

According to its press release, the outfit has embraced, cuddled and
otherwise kindoddled Google's software bundle, which includes e-mail,
word processing, spreadsheets and calendar management.

Apparently Capgemini can influence the software choices of more than a
million PC users as its major customers include drug maker Eli Lilly
and accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Capgemini says it will continue to support business software made by
Vole and IBM but will back Google applications and help integrate them
into corporate systems. With the cheap licences involved for Google
software, Capgemini's blessing will give the search engine outfit's
software a lot of credibility.

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Google-hating Aussie watchdog smacked by confused judge

After accusing Google of misleading web users with its money-making
sponsored links, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
(ACCC) has been accused of saying things that don't make sense.

The ACCC showed up in Australian federal court yesterday, two months
after bringing legal action against Google, and Judge James Allsop
told the consumer watchdog that its court documents were almost
"incomprehensible," "opaque," and "somewhat repetitious," The
Australian reports. He then asked the ACCC to clarify its position
with new documents, planning to revisit the matter next month.

In July, the commission kicked off legal proceedings against Google,
two of its subsidiaries, and an Australian classifieds site called
Trading Post, alleging "misleading and deceptive conduct in relation
to sponsored links that appeared on the Google website." The ACCC
claims that the search giant fails to properly distinguish between
"organic" search results and advertising results, and it's annoyed
that Trading Post was able to attract customers using sponsored links
that included the names of two independent car dealerships, Kloster
Ford and Charlestown Toyota.

In accusing Google of violating Australia's Trade Practices Act, the
ACCC is sure that it's the first organization on earth to legally
question the distinction between search results that are paid for and
those that are not. In the U.S., close to a dozen companies have
brought suit against Google for allowing competitors to piggy-back
sponsored links on their trademarks, including American Airlines, but
in recent years, there's been relatively little controversy over the
way sponsored links are presented.

In 2001, an organization led by uber-consumer-advocate Ralph Nader
complained to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission about deceptive
sponsored links, and a year later, the FTC fired off a letter to the
country's search engines, insisting they clearly separate paid search
from unpaid. "Search engine practices weren't terrible at the time of
the FTC letter, and they're better now than they were in 2002," Santa
Clara University law professor and tech law blogger Eric Goldman told
The Reg. "In terms of confusion between ads and search results, we
really haven't seen much stress about that."

You could also argue that Google was clearly marking its sponsored
links well before the rest of the market. "Google's practices were
always better than the prevailing state of the art," Goldman
continued. On Google's main search page, sponsored links appear in a
tinted box tagged with the words "Sponsored Links," and they look much
the same on sites run by Google Ireland and Google Australia, the two
subsidiaries the ACCC is complaining about.

Of course, anyone who visits Google after fifteen years stranded on a
desert island may not understand the term "sponsored link." "You can
always do more to make it clearer that these are ads and not search
results," Goldman said. "Does the term sponsored link communicate 'ad'
- or does it communicate something else?"

When we contacted Google, it gave us a predictable response to the
news from Australia. "From the outset, we have stated this case is
wrongly based and we're now making our arguments to the Court," said
spokesman Rob Shilkin. "Our focus is on delivering relevant
information to Australian users and helping Australian businesses
enjoy the benefits of search marketing."

After the initial response from Judge Allsop, it doesn't look like the
company has all that much to worry about. (r)

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