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Friday, 3rd August 2007

Briefs: Real Time Traffic From Inrix and Others; Google/Earthlink Wi-Fi Plans Put on Hold; Ask's Mike Ferguson Talks Search

+ End Users Can Now View More Than 16,000 E-journals Through EBSCO’s Access Services

+ Google, EarthLink San Francisco WiFi Project On Hold

Questions have been raised about the future of a pivotal plan for Google Inc. and EarthLink Inc. to cover San Francisco with wireless Internet access, following negative comments by EarthLink's CEO and that company's reported lack of direct communication with city officials.

Background: No Progress Since Announcement on Google’s SF Wi-Fi Program (9/22/2006)

See Also: Google Bidding To Provide Free Wi-Fi To San Francisco (10/2/2005)
See Also: Google One of Five Finalists for San Franscisco Citywide Wi-Fi Project (12/19/2005)
See Also: Text of Google's Original Filing with San Francisco Available (10/16/2005)

+ Some Google Maps Offering Real Time Traffic Predictions (via Search Engine Land)
Greg Sterling reports. If real time traffic aggregation and prediction is of interest, take a look at Inrix. Inrix comes out of Microsoft Research and offers their services to many web sites and GPS tools that offer real time traffic info. Garmin, tomtom, and TeleNav are three of many companies they work with. Learn more about their predictive traffic technology here and here. Key customer list here.

Another company in this space is LandSonar. More here.

Estimates for the for the SF Bay Area from BeatTheTraffic.com

Estimates for NYC metro from BeattheTraffic.com

+ Ask's* Michael Ferguson: Optimize For Content Rich SERPs (via Search Engine Land)
* Gary is Director of Online Resources at Ask.com.


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