AOL has added a number of cool new features to its mobile search offering, including a direct keyword-based navigation capability (very similar to the long lost RealNames system) and intelligent reformatting of web pages so that they are displayed...
RealNames itself died the next year. Way back in 2001, I had a reader or two ask me about UDDI and a business registry that IBM, Microsoft and others were building upon it, which is now closing. UDDI is the Universal Description, Discovery Watch...
The Return Of RealNames. The goal is to allow and enable users to search over scholarly content," said Anurag Acharya, a Google engineer leading the project. Much of this material has been added to Google over the past few months.
Keith Teare, founder of the RealNames navigation system that died back in 2002, tells me via email that he's regained the RealNames domain name and launched a new RealNames search engine based on the company's old data.
Touches on "pay for submission" systems at LookSmart, Inktomi and Yahoo, "pay for display" at RealNames and "pay for clickthrough" at LookSmart. The RealNames system offers an indirect way for some advertisers to make it to the top of AltaVista's...
RealNames increases registration fee from $40 to $100 per year. RealNames and LookSmart announce that the RealNames service will be integrated into LookSmart in October 1998. Infoseek announces it will add RealNames to its search results.
Goodbye Domain Names, Hello RealNames? NOTE: For current articles about search marketing issues and country-specific search results, see the SEM Tips: Multilingual & Non-US section of Search Topics. Optimizing for International Search Engines: Part...
Let's hope that doesn't get used as an excuse to dodge legitimate questions, in the way former search player RealNames did: http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2167691 NOTE: REVENUE-RELATED ITEMS FROM SEPTEMBER 2004 ONWARD ARE LISTED...
RealNames, April 2000 Survey Reveals Search Habits NOTE: STATISTICAL ITEMS FROM SEPTEMBER 2004 ONWARD ARE LISTED IN THE STATS CATEGORY OF SEARCH TOPICS IN SEARCH ENGINE WATCH. This page (formerly called The Search Engine Index) lists articles from...
RealNames competitor Netword picks up Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy to pitch its service. This page lists articles from Search Engine Watch and around the web about how search engines have advertised or promoted themselves to the public.
Google puts Realnames like functionality into tool bar.to Get Listed in Some Directory? Improving The Reputation Of The SEM Industry Search Engine Watch Forums Perhaps the way to a solution is to ask what's the problem?
Let's hope that doesn't get used as an excuse to dodge legitimate questions, in the way former search player RealNames did: http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/2167691 Search Engine Watch News + Search Engine Strategies Comes To...
RealNames was a system that let people use ordinary words in place of URLs within Internet Explorer to reach web sites. RealNames Clones Causing Confusion The Search Engine Update, Oct. Since the closure of RealNames, I've received a steady stream...
IE has its own mechanisms for dealing with bad domains or when a particular page no longer exists (my past story Searching & Navigating Via Internet Explorer covers this, though the RealNames system no longer operates).
IE has its own mechanisms for dealing with bad domains or when a particular page no longer exists (my past story Searching & Navigating Via Internet Explorer covers this, though the RealNames system no longer operates).
Note that information about the RealNames system and integration is no longer valid, as that system closed in the middle of 2002. Microsoft continues to say that it has no relationship with any company to resell keywords in the style that RealNames...
More accurately, it seems to power a version of keyword navigation akin to the former RealNames, helping those in China enter Chinese characters into the IE address bar to reach web sites. Search Engine Watch News + SES Dates For 2004 Set + Search...
Back in October you did an article about RealNames clones, but I haven't seen anything recently about this. What do you tell people who ask about paid registrations with Lycos/FAST/AllTheWeb and Ask Jeeves/Teoma?
My last article on this subject, RealNames Clones Causing Confusion, explained how iGetNet has built an "IGN Keywords" plug-in for Internet Explorer that lets users enter common words into the address bar of Internet Explorer in order to reach...
Webmaster World Forums http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum8/501.htm "I got a call today from someone wanting to sell me keywords from the browser address bar, similar to what RealNames did. The most interesting, newsworthy or controversial...
