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Yahoo! Answers Celebrates 1st Birthday
On the heels of the Google Answers closure, Yahoo’s social question and answer service is enjoying a much different experience. Yahoo! Answers officially turns one year old today,…
Yahoo and IBM team up in enterprise search
A minute after midnight, Bill Snyder, Senior Writer for TheStreet.com, broke the story about IBM teaming up with Yahoo in enterprise search.…
Online Shopping, on your Phone
Most online comparison shopping sites are rich with text and graphic images displaying all manner of info about the wares they are…
Ho, Ho, Ho – Holiday Shopping Search Skyrockets
This year’s Cyber Monday numbers shattered the record books, with significant increases of online shopping site visits and a reported $600 in…
Shopping Search, Via Mobile Phone
Many popular shopping sites offer mobile versions of their search tools, which can be especially useful for those always on the go.
Va. Pushing For Sex Predator Register Email, IM Info
In a move that could help keep track of sex predators’ whereabouts on the web, Virginia legislators will vote on a bill…
Google Finance gets makeover
Google Finance got a makeover today, just six months after being launched. According to the Official Google Blog, here’s what’s new: *…
Yahoo Mid-Year Offer to Buy Facebook Rejected
According to Michael Arrington at Techcrunch, Yahoo proposed a $1 billion acquisition of the social network Facebook in mid-2006. According to leaked…
Why is “news” a stop word in Google News?
If you use Google News to search for the term, Google News, you are told “news” is a very common word and…
MySpace passes Yahoo in page views
Check out the post by Liz Gannes on GigoOM entitled, Report: MySpace Passes Yahoo in Page Views. According to comScore data mentioned…
Is click fraud via Google “a fraction of one percent”?
Donna Bogatin has an interesting post on ZDNet entitled, Google and click fraud: As wholesome as milk? While giving Google left-handed praise…
White paper says vertical search will hit $1 billion by 2009
Kate Maddox of B2BOnline reports today on a new white paper by Slack Barshinger and SearchChannel that projects revenue from B2B vertical…
Wordtracker holds contest to find the next Google Guru
A $6,000 contest from Wordtracker.com aims to give anyone the skills they need to become a Google Guru in just five days…
Mamma.com Launches New Video Search Engine
Mamma.com has launched a video search engine in Beta format. In conjunction with the Pixsy Media Search Platform, Mamma.com now offers its…
Google Copies Yahoo’s IE7 Marketing Page
Jeromy Zawodny has found that Google used the existing Yahoo IE7 promo page. Comparative pictures of the two promo pages supports his…
Searching for Reliable Stats
The web abounds with statistics, but you often have to search around to find a government agency or other reliable source to…
Search Results Getting Safer
McAfee’s SiteAdvisor monitors the changes in search results and measures the level of what they call “dangerous” sites in all the major…
Geeking Out on Statistics
Finding reliable statistics on the web isn't always easy, but a massive central data source called Nationmaster.com offers a handy way to…
US State Dept. Uses Google When CIA Says No
When the CIA denied the US State Department access to “the names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in…
Berkowitz Tells NYT about Microsoft’s Challenges
Steve Berkowitz, former CEO of Ask.com and now senior VP of Microsoft’s Online Services Group, overseeing Windows Live and MSN, describes the…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Dec. 11, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the web.
Baidu Starts Chinese Blog Search Engine
Chinese search engine giant Baidu has launched a blog search engine – the first in the China. Nearly 20 million people blog…
WhoToTalkTo.com: Job Search Engine With a Twist
The newly launched job search engine, WhoToTalkTo.com, is using job seekers to help build its database of jobs. The engine requires users…
Yahoo Hosts Search Marketing’s Pop Culture Trivia Challenge
Sixteen of New York’s major players in the search marketing space went toe-to-toe last night for bragging rights as the champions of…
Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 8, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…
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