The news aggregator has also asked its readers to pitch ideas about what features it could embrace in the development of the new tool in order to "pull this off in such a small window". Digg is taking advantage of Google's decision to close its...
Prior to Blekko, Skrenta monetized page views at about $3 to $4 CPMs on Topix, a news aggregator which he sold to the Tribune. Both Google and Bing have an inventory for startups like Blekko for them to be able to use their advertisers through...
Twitter has agreed to acquire news aggregator startup Summify to boost its news management capabilities. The Summify platform allows users to collect and summarize news items into a single visual feed.
Facebook Places will likely take the role of platform and audience aggregator. In addition to the mobile facing feature, corresponding Place pages will exhibit details of the location, news feed, pictures, and a list of people who have checked in...
Facebook's FriendFeed Acquisition Could Have Implications for Search (Yes, Search) Posted by Nathania Johnson Aug 11, 2009 Facebook has acquired FriendFeed, a social media aggregator. It's So On: Facebook Rolls Out Live Feed Search to All Users...
Skrenta Steps Down at TopixRich Skrenta, CEO of news aggregator and local search site Topix since its launch five years ago, is stepping down from his position. Get the latest news each day, throughout the day, alerts of new discussion threads from...
Topix.net Gains $15 Million Investment From Newspaper Parents - News aggregator and search engine Topix.net announced a new round of funding in which its newspaper owners, Gannett, Tribune Co.and McClatchy, have invested $15 million in the site to...
Topix.net Gains $15 Million Investment From Newspaper Parents - News aggregator and search engine Topix.net announced a new round of funding in which its newspaper owners, Gannett, Tribune Co.and McClatchy, have invested $15 million in the site to...
LiveDeal Partnership Moves: Vast, SimplyHired - Within the past two days LiveDeal has announced two significant relationships: one with jobs metasearch engine SimplyHired and another, today, with general classifieds aggregator/search engine Vast.
Google News inventor defends aggregator site. Ask's new blog and feed search offers a high-quality alternative for finding information in the blogosphere, with a number of unique tools not found on competing services.
More IM Search: Search Air Fare Info, Flight Status and More with Kayakbot - Travel search aggregator Kayak is announcing the release of Kayakbot for AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). Subscribe to our main SEW Blog feed, and you'll receive the podcasts...
Recap: VeriSign Acquires Moreover - Talk today about the VeriSign acquisition of news aggregator of Moreover. New Google Reader For Feed Reading - Continuing its push into the universe of blogs and feeds, Google has launched a feed reader application.
News aggregator services gather information from the Web and provide news to other Web sites, offering some great opportunities for search engine marketers. Inform Technologies Bows News Aggregator. Users can host their news feeds with Moreover...
Mark Fletcher (a very nice guy by the way) and his Bloglines team are announcing several new enchancements to the Bloglines web-based news aggregator this afternoon and we've got a quick peek. You'll find a link to what Hotkeys are available at the...
In a study on the state of blogging by the Pew Internet Life Project last January, just 38% of all users knew what a blog was, but 5% said they used an RSS reader or aggregator to get news and information from frequently updated web sites and blogs.
You can also use the new "topic tracker" to add your query to My Yahoo, or click the xml button to add a feed for the search to an RSS aggregator. Although not the long-anticipated blog/feed search that we know is coming soon, Yahoo's blending of...
Option to quickly add blogs discovered via Google Blog Search to your aggregator, personalized page, or Google Sidebar with just a click. In other words, if it's just a "snippet" feed, you might be missing useful material.
Bloglines, owned by Ask Jeeves, is both a feed search tool and a feed reader/aggregator. Daypop was one of the first blog/feed search engines, receiving honorable mentions in the Search Engine Watch awards in 2001 and 2002.
Because feeds are created using the RSS standard, they can easily be read by a software client called an RSS feed reader or aggregator. Most feed readers can handle all of the current standards. Not much, really, but one key difference is crucial...
In other words, the sidebar can also function as an RSS or ATOM aggregator. This is some cool stuff and yes, Virginia, Google now has an RSS aggregator. Now in beta, Google Desktop Search 2 offers features such as integration with Outlook...
