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IM Info Bots Come to MSN Messenger
BetaNews reports that MSN has release two new IM “bots” (type in a query and get an automated response) for MSN Messenger…
The Fear of Google Continues as a Hot Topic and Popular News Story
What might this holidays season’s most popular item and topic be for grown-ups be? A satellite radio? A new car with GPS?…
Gary’s Other Blogs: Resources, Tools, and Documents
Since Danny has a new personal blog up and running, I thought I would take just a brief moment of your time…
Collaborative Web Tagging Will Be Topic of Workshop at WWW 2006
Collaborative taggers should tag the following item, “workshop.” The RawSugar Blog (RawSugar is a social search engine (beta) with over 135,000 URLs…
Millions of eBay Items Now Searchable on MSN Shopping
Just in time for the holiday shopping season and interesting move from MS. You can now search MSN Shopping and find items…
Public Domain Books: More than 25,000 Full Text Books in a Single Database
Talk about online books seem to be a very frequent topic of conversation in the search world today. In the past few…
A Flaw Could Cause Problems for Google Desktop Users Who Use Internet Explorer
Google Spokesperson, Sonya Boralv, has told News.com that Google has just learned about and is looking into a possible flaw with Internet…
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 2, 2005: Google Sandbox Effect, Yahoo’s Search Behaviorally Targeted Ads, Will Personalized Search Work, All Official Google Blog Posts In One & More!
Today’s search podcast covers the Google Sandbox effect and how some feel it prevents new sites from ranking well; Yahoo’s search behaviorally…
Google: From AdWords and AdSense to Publication Ads
BusinessWeeks’s Ben Elgin takes an in-depth look at what appears to be Google’s growing interest in the publication ad business in the…
MSN Using Human Quality Raters to Review Results
Via Threadwatch (and its new man in charge, Aaron Wall), word that MSN Search is also using quality raters to revew and…