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Comparison Shopping Engines and the Small Retailer
In Comparison Shopping Threatens Smaller Sites, (posted on the WSJ’s StartupJournal site, registration not required), Jeannette Borzo takes a look at comparison…
FindWhat Opens AdRevenue Xpress Contextual Ads Program
FindWhat joins Google in offering self-serve contextual ads for publishers. The system also allows publishers to add sponsored search listings to their…
Microsoft’s “Search Champs”
Next week the MSFT Redmond campus will welcome a group of bloggers, researchers, and others interested in search to a two day…
Ask Google Answers: Is the Googleplex on Fire?
Boy, the folks at Google Answers sure get some oddball questions. Yesterday someone posted a question under the subject google headquarters, flammability…
GoHook Offers Up a Database of PDF Content
We’ve just learned that GoHook is building a database of Adobe Acrobat (PDF) content. GoHook used to provide an archive of completed…
Ask Jeeves UK Cuts Sales Staff
Ask Jeeves cuts back UK direct sales department Search engine Ask Jeeves has cut a number of jobs from its UK sales…
Dipsie Says Online “Soon”
Along with Microsoft at the MIT conference Danny mentioned was Jason Wiener who continues to say that his Dipsie search engine will…
Will Better Search Sabotage The Business Model?
Microsoft search researcher Eric Brill suggests that as search gets better, it will be less a money-maker: Microsoft Researcher Questions Search Engine…
Froogle UK Quietly Launched
Froogle finally moves outside the US and opens a UK edition: Froogle UK. Being based in the UK, I plan to put…
Reducing Information Overkill
Vivisimo has launched Clusty, a meta search engine with an impressive array of tools that helps you quickly find relevant results from…