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Google Blogorama: Two New Official Blogs from Mountain View
Two new “official blogs” from Mountain View! First, as Google Desktop 2 leaves beta (now with more sidebar panels), Google Blogoscoped reports…
Think Partnership Acquires Web Diversity
Think Partnership, parent of search marketing firm WebSourced, has acquired UK based Web Diversity for a combination of cash and stock. As…
Harsh Words for New Looksmart Vertical
About.com Mutual Funds Guide Dustin Woodard decided to test out one of Looksmart’s recently launched vertical sites, so he focused on the…
Riffing on GoogleBase
Over at MediaPost, David Berkowitz has some interesting commentary on the potential ramifications of GoogleBase, the sometimes-on but still mostly offline service…
Where Tagging Works: Searching for a Good Game
A new site jumps on the tagging bandwagon and actually ends up with useful search results. Why? Because it's narrowly focused on…
New Research from Stanford on the Truthful Auction Pricing of Keywords
A new research report was just published online from the Stanford InfoLab! that might worthy of your attention. Here are the details.…
On Microsoft Live, Live.com and Start.com Personalized Portals
Plenty of coverage of Microsoft’s new Windows Live services today: Live from San Francisco: Bill Gates on Next-Gen Software Gates: We’re entering…
Ask Jeeves Acquisition Helps IAC/InterActive Narrow Losses
John and Rafat both point out that the IAC/InterActive quarterly earnings call took place yesterday and the Jeeves acquisition made an impact…
Web Site Measurement Hacks
Measuring the results of a search marketing campaign is a critical activity, but it’s one that can be difficult or painful, especially…
Google Gears Up to Resume Book Scanning
It’s November 1st, the day Google said they would resume scanning books of all types (including in-copyright materials) from the five libraries…