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New Google CIO from Morgan Stanley : Benjamin Fried

April 26th, 2008 by

Google has named a new chief information officer after the departure of Douglas Merrill to EMI Records earlier in the month. Benjamin Fried, who led the Morgan Stanlet Application Infrastructure group, will be taking the CIO position in May.

Fried, who worked for Morgan Stanley computing operations for nearly 14 years, has experience in the area, though. According to the memo, he worked on Morgan Stanley’s first Web site, its workstation software, and its intranet.

CNet reports that Fried has a long history with Google and helped them with the big Google IPO back in 2004

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Take Our 2-Minute Survey; You Could Win a Ticket to SMX Advanced

April 26th, 2008 by

Last Thursday we posted asking you to take our Search Engine Land audience survey. Thanks to the more than 200 of you who took the time to help us out!

For everyone else, this is a quick reminder that by taking the survey, you will be entered in a drawing to win a ticket to SMX Advanced in Seattle in June. Fill out the survey by April 23 at 6PM PDT. Travel and accommodations are not covered, sorry. If you can’t make it, you’re free to exchange it for another SMX ticket or give it to someone else.

Please, take our audience survey!

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Windows Live Search intros Celebrity Search Zeitgeist

April 25th, 2008 by

The Live Search blog has announced the xRank Celebrity, which according to the post is a ranking of all celebrity related searches done on the Live Search portal. Yes dear readers, its a celebrity search zeitgeist, complete with links to images, video, biography, albums and movies of top ranking celebrities based on searches conducted using their names on the Live Search portal. (more…)

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