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Search Headlines & Links: June 8, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately: From The SEW Blog… Hitwise:…
New Search Patents: June 8, 2006 – Stanford updates Pagerank Patent
The patent for pagerank has been updated, Hewlett-Packard introduces advanced searching options for searchers, IBM patents a query translation server to help…
Yahoo Answers Coming After Wikipedia’s Crown?
Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers! from me in SearchDay today looks at new stats that fuel the notion that Yahoo…
Yahoo Photos Upgraded, Beta Available
TechCrunch has a good writeup on the new Yahoo Photos beta. To access the beta go to https://photos.yahoo.com/ and after you sign…
Alternative Ways Into Google & Yahoo
Search Engine Guide has an article named Alternative Ways to Get Into Google and About.com has an article named 8 Ways to…
Google Browser Sync For Firefox
Google announced a new Firefox plugin named Google Browser Sync. The Firefox extension allows you to “synchronizes your browser settings including…
Lawsuit Over Killed Anti-China Ad On Google
Google Sued for Allegedly Refusing Anti-China Ad at Wired News covers a lawsuit filed against Google after it refused to carry ads…
Google Calls On Users To Lobby For Net Neutrality
Google cofounder Sergey Brin might not have been able to lobby all the US senators he wanted earlier this week to stop…
IceRocket Sale To Think Is Off (Update: Discussions Still Going)
That deal for Think Partnership to purchase blog search engine IceRocket? Andy Beal notes that it’s off. Postscript: Think has second thoughts…
Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers!
New stats add fuel to the idea that Yahoo Answers is perhaps becoming a social interacting phenomenon like YouTube or MySpace. A…
Search Headlines & Links: June 7, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
May 2006 Search News Recap Posted
The latest edition of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now online, recapping top stories in search from the past month.…
Daily SearchCast, June 7, 2006: Google Rethinking Chinese Censorship? Rock, Paper, Scissors, US Senator, Google Guy; What People Search For At The CIA Web Site & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google reconsidering Chinese censorship; who’s more powerful, a US senator or a Google Guy?; making your site search…
Presentations from the Future of Web Search, in Barcelona
When it was announced earlier this year that Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates would be joining Yahoo, part of the agreement involved him continuing…
Searching for a Place to Live
Real estate search services are some of the hottest new properties on the web, and no wonder—the National Association of Realtors estimates…
Yahoo! Shopping Launches Blog
Chris Saito announced the launch of the Yahoo! Shopping Blog at Internet Retailer 2006 yesterday. While I wasn’t at the conference, Chris…
Top Four & Two Percent Are Key For On Site Search Keyword Optimization
ClickZ has the details of a Patricia Seybold Group study which says that for e-commerce sites, the top two-percent of search queries…
Avvo Ain’t About Guacamole: It’s New Legal Search In Development
Avvo is a new legal, vertical search startup that promises to “better navigate the highly confusing legal industry.” Started by former executives…
AdWords Editor Open For All To Download
ThreadWatch noted the other day that the Google AdWords Editor is now open for everyone to use. Google started beta testing the…
Brin Can’t Get Some Senate Meetings On Last-Minute DC Trip; Admits Needing Better Organization
It wasn’t only China that Google cofounder Sergey Brin was talking about in Washington DC yesterday. The purpose of his trip primarily…
Google To Offer Picasa Web Albums?
Philipp Lenssen reports that he found signs of a “Picasa Web Albums” feature coming to Picasa. Picasa is Google’s desktop based photo…
Brin Suggests Google Might Reverse Chinese Censorship In The Short Term; Meanwhile, China Ramps Up Google.com Blocks
“Brin says Google compromised principles” from the Associated Press covers Google cofounder Sergey Brin telling reporters yesterday that it’s possible Google might…
AdWords Advertiser Pays $2,000 After Misleading Searchers
ComputerWorld reports that a man who was selling “ineffective antispyware” software through AdWords has paid $2,000 to settle the dispute out of…
Hitwise: Google Tops For UK Web Search But Weak With Other Offerings
Figures recently released from web monitoring firm Hitwise provide mixed messages from the UK for Google and their major competitors. The bare…
The Search Engine Update – Number 222 – June 7, 2006
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the second half of May 2006.
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