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Yahoo Hurting While Google Healthier Than Ever
The NY Times has an article named Yahoo’s Growth Being Eroded by New Rivals (free version available at (IHT.com). The article goes through how Yahoo is suffering and…
Yahoo To Support The NOODP Tag; Won’t Prevent Display Of Yahoo Directory Title
Last night, I spoke with Tim Mayer of Yahoo about supporting the NOODP tag at Yahoo. In short, the NOODP tag allows…
The Ongoing Struggle of Free vs. Fee
Does information really want to be free? If so, how can traditional information publishers and aggregators deal with shifting value propositions and…
Search Headlines & Links: October 10, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Google Blog: Please Get Descriptive With Your Headlines!
A public rant, and I’m sorry — but I’ve had it with the Official Google Blog having post headlines that give people…
Justin Uberti, AOL’s Top AIM Developer, Hired By Google
Steve Bryant reports that Justin Uberti, who has been with AOL for about 10 years and working on AIM for almost 9…
Maharashtra Farmers Fight Government With Google Earth
IBN Live reports that Maharashtra farmers are using Google Earth to fight back against a government ruling that they would take 25,000…
Google To Set Up R&D Office In South Korea
The Associated Press reports that Google is setting up a research and development center in South Korea. The details of the size…
Court Issues Notice To Google For Allegedly Spreading Hate In India Via Orkut
The Times of India reports that Google is in hot water over Orkut once again, this time for allegedly spreading hatred for…
Yahoo Time Capsule Project Launched
Yahoo has created the Yahoo Time Capsule, what it calls the “first-ever electronic anthropology project” to document human life in 2006. You…
Sizing Up Search Engine Instant Answers
The major search services have all be increasing their efforts to deliver focused “answers” to many types of queries. They each take…
A Closer Look at Ask’s Smart Answers
Ask.com has truly differentiated itself with the "Smart Answers" it returns for thousands of queries, offering facts, images and targeted links that…
Google To Acquire YouTube In Stock Transaction
It’s real and was just confirmed. It’s a stock transaction that will close in Q4 and will enable YouTube to operate independently.…
Search Headlines & Links: October 9, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Coke Counters Bad PR With Search Ads
Coca-Cola Counters Critics With Search Ads from MediaPost covers how Coke is using search marketing to get the word out about a…
Microsoft Partners With Blinkx On Video Search
Blinkx signs Microsoft pact from Reuters covers how video search company Blinkx is expected to announce today a partnership with Microsoft to…
Official Google Blog Gets Hacked After Message On Security
The Official Google Blog was hacked over the weekend, happening embarrassingly after Google had just posted about how seriously it takes security.…
Search Headlines & Links: October 6, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Google Calls Operational Pause On Products & Yes, New Rollouts Were Hurting Search
Google Puts Lid on New Products from the Los Angeles Times is great news from Google — Sergey Brin leading an attitude…
Google News – Porn Edition?
Barry Schwartz emailed me to take a look at the entertainment section at Google News a little while ago. No, Google’s not…
New Search Patent Applications: October 6, 2006 – Google Takes Over the Patent Office
There were some interesting new patent applications this week from Yahoo, Microsoft, and IBM, but nothing on the scale of the outpouring…
Yahoo Messenger Worm Targets Google AdSense Click Fraud
The Register reports that a new malware worm has been discovered that targets Yahoo Messenger, sends those users to pages with Google…
Google Acquisition Of YouTube Rumor
Speculation about a potential acquisition of YouTube by Google is heating up. The Wall Street Journal reports and here’s more coverage and…
Google Print Helping Book Sales
Despite a skeptical publishing community some publishers are seeing increased sales from Google’s book scanning project. Reuters quotes several publishers as seeing…
Search Forums Roundup: Oct. 6, 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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