Daily SearchCast, Oct. 4, 2005: Yahoo Leads Open Source-Style Digital Library Program, Google Bids To Do Free Wi-Fi For SF, Seeking Better Query Refinement, Google Maps And Border Disputes, Wedding Proposal Via Ask Jeeves & More!

Today's search podcast covers more on Google's partnership with NASA for office space and data, more signs of a potential Google Calendar, whether site owners should get paid for carrying Google house ads, a list of nearly 100 factors to rank web pages, finding out the truth behind urban myths, a new way to create your own search engine and more!

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• A New Alternative to Google Print
   
• Details about Europe's i2010 Digital Libraries Program Emerge
   
• Google Bidding To Provide Free Wi-Fi To San Francisco
   
• Google Not Alone In Desire to Build San Francisco Wi-Fi Network
   
• Google Plans to Partner With Sun
   
• Google's Many Projects & Interests
   
• Robert Scoble Wants What We Had -- Better Query Refinement. So Do I!
   
• More On Query Refinement, The Human Scale Problem & Creating The Search Dialog
   
• SEO Big With Small & Medium Sized Businesses
   
• Skip The $79 Ranking Software
   
• BodyBuilding.com Builds $48 Million In Sales Off Natural Search
   
• Apple Europe Crackdown On Google Ads?
   
• Search May Not Be From Branding, But It Will Still Pull Branding Spend
   
• Google After SEM Execs To Woo & Train Agencies?
   
• Call Tracking Is For Everyone, Even If Pay Per Call Isn't
   
• Yahoo Accused of Trying to Steal Trade Secrets
   
• Google Wins Age Discrimination Suit
   
• Taiwan Not Happy With Being A Chinese "Province" In Google Maps
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• Keeping Yourself Out of Web And Other Databases
   
• Blinkx.tv Will Now Host and Serve Your Video Content
   
• Threadwatch Turns One: Congrats!
   
• Search Engine Roundtable's Barry Schwartz Proposes Via Ask Jeeves Search Results

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