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Yahoo Local has added a nifty little feature that lets you interact with their maps. Their new dynamic radius circle helps you narrow down the area that you are searching in.

When you??™re on Yahoo Local, look on the right side of your results for a map. Click ???Expand Map.??? Then you can drag the circle around, as well as zoom in and out.

The only thing I didn??™t like is that when you zoom in, the circle stays in proportion to the page instead of expanding or contracting with the zoom on the map.

Here??™s a screenshot of a search for ???coffee??? in Washington, DC:

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On Wednesday, Google turned over approximately 3,261 files to a Brazilian senate commission charged with looking into allegations that illegal images of minors were posted in restricted-access photo albums on Google’s Orkut social networking site.?  In turning over the data on suspected pedophiles, Google gave into the pressure to lift their confidentiality duty to its [...]

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Court Says Keyword Metatags Don't Matter--Standard Process v. Banks by Eric Goldman uncovers a recent case between Standard Process, Inc. v. Banks that shows that the court has ruled that the META keywords tag is "immaterial." Goldman said this is the first time the courts ruled based on knowledge of how the META keywords impact search rank, as opposed to passed cases such as National American Medical vs Axiom where a court ruled Meta Tags Can Constitute Infringement.

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You've seen the Earth Day logos, now comes several Earth Day related announcements from Google. The most significant of those involves the expansion of Google Transit to nine new US locations, including San Francisco, Denver, Millwaukee, Ann Arbor and Holland, MI, Kansas City, MO, Framingham and Cape Cod, MA.

Here's more from the Google LatLong blog. Other green related initiatives and announcements launching in celebration of Earth Day can be found on the Official Google blog.

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Continuing from previous search stats from Hitwise, Compete, and comScore,Nielsen Online isnow out (PDF file) with search engine share figures in the United States for March 2008. Similar to Hitwise and comScore, Google remains at a high but unlike some of the others, Microsoft and Yahoo come off lows.

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