Industry.
Ask Jeeves’ New Image Search vs. the Competition
Image search is offered by all of the major search engines, and people tend to think it’s a fairly generic service, with little difference in results between any…
Searching For a Better Image
Ask Jeeves has launched a brand-new image search service, using some innovative techniques to identify high-quality pictures on the web. How does…
U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy Asks Attorney General for More Info On Web Search Subpeonas
News.com reports that Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont has sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, asking for more information…
Daily SearchCast, Jan. 25, 2006: Google Agrees To China Censorship; Searcher Views On Privacy; Yahoo Doesn’t Want To Be #2; New AdWords Software Editor Being Tested; Ask Gets Own Image Search & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google agreeing to Chinese censorship demands; a poll about searcher views on the privacy of searches; Yahoo says it’s…
Daily SearchCast, Jan. 24, 2006: Private Versus Personally Identifiable Searches; Protecting Your Search Privacy; Google News Out Of Beta & More!
Today’s search podcast covers the difference between private and personally identifiable searches; the difficulty in protecting your search privacy; MSN blogs on the…
Another Google UI Test? Search Tips on Web Results Pages
It appears that I might have spotted yet another Google UI test or I’m very late to the party on this one.…
Ask Jeeves Launches (Beta) German Site
It’s official, but not a total surprise, since Barry first blogged reports about new European versions of Ask Jeeves appearing throughout Western…
Scoop: Google News Leaves Beta!
Google News has officially grown up, after more than three years in development. “Thats one beta down, only 237-ish to go!” qipped…
Search Data Request Has Searchers Pondering Their Next Query
After Subpoenas, Internet Searches Give Some Pause from the New York Times is a nice, reflective piece on how people might be…
Yahoo Does Want To Be The Leading Search Engine
Are you kidding?! at the Yahoo Search Blog has Yahoo giving the official word that they do want to be the leader…
Google Now Censoring In China
Oh, the irony. Less than a week after we hear that Google is ready to fight the US government in part to…
Beyond Beta: Google News Graduates
Google News has finally graduated from beta status, after more than three years in development, with some shiny new features.
Fee-Based Support and Consulting for Google Analytics Now Available
The News.com story: Google offers fee-based online ad analytics, reports that Google has teamed with Zaaz (a Seattle-based interactive agency) to offer…
New and More Detailed Imagery Comes to Google Local and Google Earth
Via Google Blogoscoped and this post on the Google Blog, word that Google has added some new and improved imagery offering greater…
Google Quietly Beta Testing Desktop AdWords Editor
Yes, more software from Google appears to be coming. Spotted on Greg Yardley’s Yardley.ca blog is news that Google is testing (via…
New Poll Finds Web Users Want Google to Keep Data Private; Full Text Access to Report Also Available
Elinor Mills at News.com clues us into a poll conducted over the weekend and reported by Verne Kopytoff in the in the…
Oh Yeah, Yahoo? Google Says (Maybe) We’ll Make Our Ads Larger
Yahoo just shorted its ads to be like Google, so naturally Google will make its ads bigger to be like Yahoo was!…
Ask Jeeves Launches Their Own Image Database, New Refinement Features Also Available
Ask Jeeves has released their own internally built database of images and is no longer using imagery provided by PicSearch to power…
Google Not Installing Third Party Cookies — It’s Firefox Prefetching
John Battelle spotted a post from Chris Marino at Tumbling Duke that has the worrisome suggestion that Google is allowing third parties…
When Carl Talked to Barry: Sources Say Time Warner Investor Carl Icahn Has Had Conversations with IAC/InterActive (Ask Jeeves) CEO Barry Diller
According to this Fortune.com story: Time Warner: Is Icahn looking to deal with Diller?, that legenday investor Carl Icahn (controls about 3.1%…
New Firstgov.gov Search Database Goes Live
The new Firstgov.gov search that offers access to content from U.S. federal, state, local tribal and territorial sources is now live. You…
Yahoo: Not A Goal To Overtake Google In Search Market Share
Steve Rubel points to a Bloomberg news article, Yahoo! gives up quest for search dominance, examining Yahoo CFO Susan Decker saying “It’s…
BBC Money Programme Documentary On Google
The BBC’s Money Programme did a big look at Google over here in the UK last Friday night. John Battelle was interviewed…
Marketing in the Search Tail: Is the Pain Worth the Gain?
Popular search terms tend to dominate the headlines, but there are literally millions of unique searches conducted every day, and savvy search…
Some Advanced Search Syntax from Yahoo Hacks and the Launch of Rough Cuts from Safari Tech Books
The Yahoo Search team has allowed Paul Bausch, author of Yahoo Hacks, to share a couple of the many “hacks” from his…
Page 387 of 521