Bloomberg's Jonny Thaw's story: Google Says It Made Mistake in Design of Online Store, includes comments from Google's Marissa Mayer who said that the design of the Google Video home page (which received a makeover yesterday) didn't do a good job...
It appears that I might have spotted yet another Google UI test or I'm very late to the party on this one. Regardless, we haven't mentioned it on the blog before. Last night I was doing some research about GoogleAlert (the fee-based service)...
It's official, but not a total surprise, since Barry first blogged reports about new European versions of Ask Jeeves appearing throughout Western Europe last month. Today, Ask Jeeves has "officially" released Ask Germany (Deutschland) in...
The News.com story: Google offers fee-based online ad analytics, reports that Google has teamed with Zaaz (a Seattle-based interactive agency) to offer fee-based support for Google Analytics users who need more support, consulting, and training...
Via Google Blogoscoped and this post on the Google Blog, word that Google has added some new and improved imagery offering greater detail to Google Earth and Google Local users. From the Google Blog post: Not only have we added extensive...
Yes, more software from Google appears to be coming. Spotted on Greg Yardley's Yardley.ca blog is news that Google is testing (via a private beta, you'll need a login and password) a desktop AdWords editor that allows you to work offline, make...
Elinor Mills at News.com clues us into a poll conducted over the weekend and reported by Verne Kopytoff in the in the San Francisco Chronicle and Michael Bazeley in the San Jose Mercury News that shows 56% of those surveyed don't want Google...
Ask Jeeves has released their own internally built database of images and is no longer using imagery provided by PicSearch to power Ask Jeeves Picture Search. For the last 10 months, AJ was utilizing their own image retrieval technology on top of...
According to this Fortune.com story: Time Warner: Is Icahn looking to deal with Diller?, that legenday investor Carl Icahn (controls about 3.1% of outstanding TW shares) and who is preparing to wage a proxy fight for control of the TW Board of...
The new Firstgov.gov search that offers access to content from U.S. federal, state, local tribal and territorial sources is now live. You can find access to the clean interface (a single search box) either via a link on the FirstGov.gov home page...
The Yahoo Search team has allowed Paul Bausch, author of Yahoo Hacks, to share a couple of the many "hacks" from his book on the Yahoo Search Blog. The first edition of Yahoo Hacks was published in October. In the post, Paul explains and offers...
Google has just filed a report with the SEC that lists the annual base salaries (stock options and other items excluded of course) for top execs in 2006. Once again, Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page will have a base salary of $1.00. This...
And you thought that Google News would always be in beta. (-: Well, that's no longer the case. As of today, approximently 1219 days (29,256 hours) after the Google News that we know today launched in beta, Google has gone ahead and removed the...
News from Yahoo that they have just opened new research labs in Chile and Spain. Yahoo has hired famed information scientist, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, to run these new facilities. I've been monitoring Dr. Baeza-Yates web site for years looking for...
BusinessWeek's Ben Elgin takes a look at social search, focusing on Yahoo, in his article: Yahoo's Social Circle. Ben's article offers a review of recent "social search" purchases from Yahoo including WebJay, del.icio.us, and Flickr. Elgin...
Last week, shorter ads descriptions came to Yahoo as Danny points out in this post. To assist with the change, Kevin Lee's column on the Clickz site: Strategies for Yahoo's Shorter Descriptions, offers some suggestions and tactics for SEM's on...
The combination of online maps, satellite and aerial imagery and real estate have spawned some fascinating and useful search sites, allowing you to visit virtual properties all around the world.
Those of you who watch Google closely might be interested to learn about a new page on the Google Press Center site, titled: Google Podium. It provides access to transcripts (and in some cases video or audio) of speeches and presentations by...
One of Google's most valuable assets that Google has is its name and brand. The 2005 brandchannel.com/Interbrand Fifth Annual (2005) Readers' Choice Awards have just been released and Google has reclaimed its top position as the world's most...
Access to Yahoo's broadband portal and services are now available to customers of Verizon's FiOS (fiber-to-the-premises network) that offers very fast Internet connections and television services. Access to MSN Premium also remains available. In...
