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Yahoo Launches Open Shortcuts, Allows Creation Of Custom Search Commands
The new Yahoo Open Shortcuts service lets anyone create their own custom search commands for use on Yahoo. Want to navigate to…
Google AdSense For Domains Program Overdue For Reform — And Yahoo & Microsoft Should Also Take Note
A program from Google that puts paid links on parked domains need changes to benefit surfers and advertisers -- and Yahoo needs…
A Pair of Web Pathfinding Gems
Though we rely heavily on search engines these days, sometimes a good 'old fashioned' human edited directory is a better choice for…
Japan’s Government Forms Study Group To Determine if Country Should Launch Its Own Search Engine
Both the AP and Agence France Press report that Japan’s government is asking both the business and education/research sectors if the country…
First Issue Of Google’s Newsletter For Librarians Released; Cutts Writes On Inverted Index & Ranking
In October, Danny blogged about Google’s “coming soon” quarterly newsletter for librarians. Today, the first issue went live. It’s available here. I’ve…
Google One of Five Finalists for San Franscisco Citywide Wi-Fi Project
Om Malik posts over on Gigaom that Google has been shortlisted as one of the five finalists for the free San Fransciso…
Time Warner Investor Works to “Derail” Rumored Google/AOL Deal
Legendary investor, the 24th richest man in America, and a major holder of Time Warner stock, Carl Icahn, is not happy with…
Ask Jeeves Plans to Grow Personnel Ranks in 2006
Jonathan Berr, reports in The Street.com story: Diller Asks Jeeves to Grow, that AJ management has been charged by IAC/InterActive CEO, Barry…
Specialty Databases (Verticals) The Focus Of A Wall Street Journal Article
A few weekends ago Wall Street Journal reporter, Kevin Delaney, gave me a call asking for a few ideas, thoughts, and suggestions…
News Aggregator Topix.net Keeps on Rockin’
Topix.net continues to evolve as a fantastic site for news and blog content, now offering more than 360,000 unique topics and categories.…