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Search Wiki is the newest feature to Google, allowing users to customize search results, and is available only to users with Google accounts.

The feature will allow users to rearrange search results, tailored to what they frequently use, according to Brand Republic.  

Users will also be able to add and remove URLs relevant to their own searches.  They can make notes on sites that will be "available for future searches."

Search Wiki allows users to "share insights with other searchers," said an engineer behind the project.

Source:  Brand Republic

Topix has announced plans to partner with four other companies including lat49, ServiceMagic, Marchex and Mapquest.   According to Topix, they are "the largest news community on the web." 

Lat49 is an online adverstising network that delivers targeted display ads depending on a users location.  ServiceMagic is a home improvement service provider and Marchex is a company that provides local business listings, similar to the yellow pages. 

Google announced that it will launch a new feature to help business that use its Site Search service to instantly incorporate and update new web pages, according to Reuters.

Website owners will now be able to add new web pages immediately so that the most recent information shows up when searching. 

Telegraph Media Group has launched an application specifically for the Google Android phone.  According to Journalism.co.uk, they are the first publishers in the UK to do so.  

The new application was launched by Telegraph Labs, which was launched in May in order to develop new products for the TMG.

An aide of Irans's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is launching a newspaper, named the "Khorshid" or "Sun." It is due to hit the newsstands on Saturday.

The newspaper, which will be published by Mohammad Paryab, will cover everything from political issues to soap operas. Initial circulation is expected to be around 200,000. The timing of the launch is crucial, being eight months before the presidential elections, resulting in speculation that the newspaper will be used to push Ahmadinejad's re-election.

Paryab denied the talk. "No, the government has other platforms and as you can see there is only one page about political news in Khorshid, so it is not useful for that purpose," he told AFP.

"If we wanted to do that, we would have allocated 10 to 12 pages of the 24-page newspaper for political news," said Paryab, who used to be deputy government spokesman and secretary of the presidency information council.

The price is 1,000 rials, approximately a dollar. Khorshid is financed by the state-run social security organisation.

Under Ahmadinejad's Presidency, Iranian media has been hit by a raft of closures.

Source: EJC Media and AFP

Search engine giant Google reports that it is launching technology that will let users search for news content on blog posts. The optimized Google Blog Search will find and arrange the 900,000 blog entries that are added each day. Previously the service only let users to type keywords into the search engine.

Google announced Wednesday that is has launched a new audio indexing service, the GAudi.

The service, designed to work with YouTube, will catalog all words used in audio and video clips.  The words will then be added to a searchable database that can be accessed the same way text-base sites are.

In addition, the user will have the option of either watching the entire video, or starting from the exact point where the key word is mentioned.  

According to Google, GAudi is only in beta, so at this point it will only index audio and video from political sources.    

Source:  European Journalism Centre

The relaxed rules that permeated during the Olympics are to be allowed to expire next month, according to the Foreign Ministry. There had been hopes that the Olympics would mark a general relaxation of the rules following hints from a Chinese official last December.

China did loosen its controls on foreign journalists -- which include requiring government permission for all interviews and travel -- at the beginning of 2007. During the Olympics, journalists were allowed to interview Chinese citizens without seeking government approval.

It is not clear at this stage what will follow after the Olympic rules expire; Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said "I think when the time comes, we will tell everyone what the arrangement will be."

The relaxed regulations did not apply to Chinese journalists; the government has maintained its control over domestic operations throughout the sporting event.

Source: The Associated Press

See also:

China: Officials allegedly released guidelines for local Olympic coverage
Media companies reporting the Olympics, Google launches online tool
China: Lifts some Internet restrictions after IOC negotiations
Thousands Protest China's Press Freedom Violations
China: Internet restrictions for journalists at Beijing