Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search
Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged
separately:
From The SEW Blog…
Why
IAC’s Pronto Will Succeed: Partnership With Ask
There are many reasons to like Pronto among the many crawler based shopping search engines: – Comprehensiveness (read last week’s press release) –
Upcoming features that provide a better user experience – Monetization through
an ad system not called Google AdSense – Not relying solely on the PPC engines
for traffic – Online ad market is hot and will continue to grow – Ecommerce is
hot and will continue to grow While these things are the building blocks of a
great new shopping service, they aren’t the be all, end all. Other companies
can and will develop powerful crawling technology…
Need A
Costume For Halloween? Try The CostumeZee Costume Search Engine!
This is an entirely commercial operation, but with Halloween looming on the
horizon, one that may prove useful. CostumeZee is a search engine that enables
searchers to locate costumes for particular events, such as Halloween, or
themes such as Pirates. Costumes for both children and adults are available,
as well as appropriate accessories. The links do all seem to take searchers to
American based sites however, so if you’re outside the US, order early and
cross your fingers….
Amazon’s
A9 Becomes, Well, Sort Of Nothing
Amazon’s A9 saw the loss of its driving force Udi Manber to Google earlier
this year. Now two years after its launch, A9 itself has lost virtually all of
its many of its distinguishing features, according to an update from the
company, including:…
Copiepresse Upset Ruling On Google Wasn’t Visible Enough
Last week, Google complied with a Belgian court order and posted the ruling
against it in a copyright suit on the home page of Google Belgium and Google
News Belgium, along with many other places including many search results
pages. Now via Google Blogoscoped, news that the plaintiff in the case
Copiepresse thinks the ruling should have gone at the top of the Google News
Belgium page, rather than the bottom….
Yahoo
Hack Day’s Success & Yahoo Mail API Coming
It sounds like Yahoo’s first open Hack Day was a big success, featuring even a
performance by Beck. Yahoo’s Bradley Horowitz has a nice roundup in Yahoo Open
Hack Day: Hell Yes!. TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington served at MC of the event,
and All Women Team Takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize post covers the top winners,
briefly. Meanwhile, Yahoo Mail introduces web APIs from Niall Kennedy covers
how a new API for Yahoo Mail is coming, with commentary from others here on
TechMeme….
Reading
Other People’s Gmail Via Bloglines
Using Bloglines to snoop on people’s private Gmail from Martin Belam looks at
how he accidentally stumbled upon email feeds that individuals are posting to
Bloglines. To be fair, it’s an issue that could happen to any “private” feed
that someone unknowingly shares to the public….
Google
Buys Birthplace Garage
Google has purchased the garage where the company developed after its initial
birth at Stanford University. Actually, they’ve purchased the home of Google
vice president of product management Susan Wojcicki. Before she became a
Google VP, Wojcicki rented the garage attached to her home to Google
cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google buys garage that launched
Internet’s top search engine from the Associated Press has details about the
sale, which was probably in the $1.2 million range. As of yet, Google doesn’t
know what exactly it may do with the home the article reports. It’s already a
tourist attraction,…
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