Industry.
GuruNet: Another Search Related IPO
GuruNet, the useful “answer engine” and search utility began trading on the AMEX yesterday. Details in this story from Israel’s Haaretz.com: GuruNet…
Job Recruiters & Searching Your Shadow Resume
Recruiters Use Google To Screen Job Applicants from the Wall Street Journal looks at how web searching could hurt the chances of…
Roll Your Own Yahoo Specialty Search Engine
Nice from Tara Calishain: Searchroller For Yahoo. Want to make a subject-specific search engine that brings back results from only certain web…
Google Desktop Search Launched
Google has released a new Google Desktop Search tool today that allows people to scan their computers for information in the same…
A Closer Look At Privacy & Desktop Search
A new era of desktop search is being ushered in. With it comes some new issues about search privacy. If you've protected…
Google Wants to Enhance Your Browsing Experience
Sergey Brin makes a couple of comments about Google and web browsers. “There has been much speculation. But our work is focussed…
A Yahoo Research Labs Workshop
Those of you interested in personalization issues might want to take a look at a couple of interesting presentations (PowerPoint slides) from…
Recall Update
I mentioned on Monday that Recall, the datbase offering keyword access to a portion of The Wayback Machine, is no longer online.…
Baidu Set to Double Revenue in 2004
According to this Reuters article, Chinese search company Baidu will see their revenues double in 2004. Google holds a minority stake in…
The Search Industry’s Growing Pains
If you’ve ever seen one of Danny Sullivan’s keynote addresses at a Search Engine Strategies conference, you know he is enlightening, provocative…