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Interview With Ask’s Jim Lanzone
John Battelle continues rolling along with his new interview series, this time talking with Jim Lanzone, senior vice president and general manager of Ask. Jim delivers up usual…
A Poster Of Google Search Commands
Can’t remember special commands that help in doing special searches at Google (and often work elsewhere, as well). The latest edition of…
Search as a Brand Enhancer
Until recently, marketers haven’t considered search to be an effective channel for branding, but that’s changing. In fact, search can be used…
New Search Patents: April 18, 2006 – Is That A Tricorder In Your Pocket?
There were 4251 patents granted on April 18, 2006. Following are five that looked like good candidates for my first post on…
Greetings From Bill Slawski, SEW’s New Patent Correspondent
Before I begin on some new patents that were granted on April 18th, I’d like to thank Danny, and the rest of…
Branding through Search: Strategies & Tactics
Savvy search marketers are increasingly leveraging search for branding purposes, and not as an afterthought, but deliberately blending both old and new…
Daily SearchCast, April 18, 2006: Danny’s 10th Year Covering Search; AdWords Conversion Tool Too Revealing?; AdSense Crawler Doing GoogleBot’s Work?; The “Lowly” Search Ad!!!; Who Has The Best Maps & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Danny having his 10th anniversary writing about search; Google’s AdSense crawler helping refresh content that GoogleBot should be…
Google Australia In Need Of Female Engineers
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Google is having a rough time finding female engineers to work in Australia. The article claims…
Yahoo Buys Meedio, Gains TiVo-Like Tech
SiliconBeat reports that Yahoo has purchased Meedio, a company that creates home automation software that runs on TVs, PCs, touchscreens, and wireless…
Bill Slawski Joins SEW Blog As Patents & Search Research Correspondent
Bill Slawski’s done a great job exploring what various patents might reveal about how search engines operate on forums and at his…
Trademark Concerns Arise in Australia Over Search Ads
The Age reports on possible legal repercussions of buying a trademarked keyword names. Telstra, an Australian based telecom company, was buying the…
Ask.com Remembers San Francisco’s Great Quake Of 1906
As a native Californian, plus having had my mother and sister live in San Francisco for twenty years, the Great Quake Of…
Divining the Future of Search Engine Advertising
What does the future hold for search advertising? Thousands of people attending the recent Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York packed…
Divining the Future of Search Advertising
What does the future hold for search advertising? Thousands of people attending the recent Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York packed…
Yahoo Adds New Senior Managers
News.com reports that Yahoo has named Ash Patel as Yahoo’s new chief product officer and Qi Lu as Yahoo’s senior president of…
Conversion Value Revealed When Using Google AdWords Conversion Tracker
When using the Google AdWords Conversion Tracker, you just may be revealing more about your conversion values than you might realize. When…
Google Travel Coming Soon?
Russell Shaw feels that Google is making a play at the travel vertical. Russell spotted a Google job posting for a “Google:…
Yahoo Executives Exercise Almost $300 Million Shares In 2005
Reuters reports, as does the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), that Yahoo executives have exercised almost $300 million in stock options in…
Google’s Cache Being Helped By The AdSense Mediapartners Bot
Publishers running AdSense on their pages may find that the Mediapartners-Google bot – the special Google bot used by AdSense to determine…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Apr. 17, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Daily SearchCast, April 14, 2006: MSN Getting Question Answering Service; Cell Phone Searching; What’s A Hidden Link & More!
Today’s search podcast covers MSN getting a question answering service and maybe social search; searching for information via your cell phone; just…
MSN Windows Live Search Getting Answers Service; May Partner Or Acquire Eurekster
Via Threadwatch, Microsoft Gets Social from BusinessWeek has news that Microsoft may be buying or partnering with Eurekster to bring social search…
Search Forums Roundup: Apr. 14, 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:…
Terrorists & Extremists Worry About Their Search Privacy
Worried that governments might spy on you through search engines? So are terrorist and extremist groups. Terrorists’ Web Chatter Shows Concern About…
Microsoft’s Search By Camera Phone Research Project
Microsoft’s Camera Phone Search Project and Other Camera Phone Search Tech from ResourceShelf covers a new Microsoft Research project allowing you to…
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