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Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 16, 2005
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: Yahoo Acquires Del.icio.us – Beware the…
Topix.net Has One Impressive Year from Both Business and User Perspective; Ends Year with New Look and Design
If you read this blog on a regular basis, it’s likely that you know I’m a big fan and user of Topix.net.…
Google Gmail Now Accessible via Mobile Phones
If you’ve got a web-enabled mobile phone and a Gmail account, you can now access your mail on the run. Gmail mobile…
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 15, 2005: Google Music Search, Yahoo Podcast Subscriptions Page, Facelift For Google Catalogs, Yahoo Index Update Coming, Year’s Top Search Terms From Yahoo (Hello Britney!) & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google’s new music search results, Yahoo’s new podcast subscription pages, Google Catalogs getting a facelift, Yahoo’s about to…
Search Execs Talk at MIT Forum
Via Searchblog, word of this just released podcast of a forum that took place at MIT about a week ago and featured…
Google Announces Plan to Open Pittsburgh Engineering Office; Yahoo Opens NYC Research Center
Both Google and Yahoo today have annoucements about new offices and research facilities. First, Google is announcing that they will open an…
Yahoo Tweaks Pure Search Interface; Adds New Page Highlighting Popular Services
I’ve been posting and showing in live presentations the uncluttered, but virtually unknown Yahoo “pure search” page at https://search.yahoo.com for a long…
HarperCollins To Digitize Own Books; Unclear How That Will Feed Into Book Search Engines
HarperCollins To Digitize And Control Its Book Content from the Wall Street Journal looks at HarperCollins saying it will digitize its active…
Customize Your MSN Live.com Home Page with Widgets
We’ve posted a couple of items about the new Google Home Page API in the past few days but I’ve mentioned (my…
Yahoo Dec. 2005 Update Coming
Sixth Weather Report: Yahoo! Update Tonight from Yahoo warns that an index change will be taking place tonight and provides a feedback…
UDDI Business Registry Closing
Way back in 2001, I had a reader or two ask me about UDDI and a business registry that IBM, Microsoft and…
Google Sings a New Tune With Google Music Search
Until today, Google hasn’t been a particularly useful service for finding information on bands, links to online music stores or other music…
New from Yahoo: Manage of All of Your Podcast Subscriptions on a Single Page
Word from Sunnyvale that Yahoo’s has just added a new feature to their podcast directory called My Subscriptions that allows registered Yahoo…
Google Adds Music Search Feature
Google has introduced a new feature that provides information about music and musical artists in response to music related search queries.
Google Page Count, Amazon Search Widgets For Google Personalized Home Page
When I posted about the new Google Home Page API last night, I said to myself that Google Blogoscoped editor, Philipp Lenssen,…
Ask Jeeves UK Releases Smart Search Tool for Football Fans
Football fans in the UK (see, I didn’t call it soccer) have a new Ask Jeeves Smart Search resource to use and…
Click Defense Out, AIT In as Lead Plaintiff in Click Fraud Case Against Google
At the end of June we posted a story (with several links) about a click fraud case filed by Click Defense against…
Windows Live Location Finder & Privacy
Microsoft has responded to user concerns about the type of information that’s transmitted and used when you use the new Windows Live…
All About Microsoft’s Fremont: Product Manager Interviewed
About 10 days ago, the web was buzzing with news of Microsoft’s classified ad service code named Fremont. Zachary Rodgers from Clickz,…
Rumor Mill: Acquisition Time? Is Google Going To The Opera (Browser)?
I’m not one for spreading rumors but sometimes…? Feel like a hot one? OK, we’ve got one or should I say Dirson…
Experian Parent Buys PriceGrabber For $485 Million
Well, that didn’t take long. Little more than a month after PriceGrabber CEO Kamran Pourzanjani told me that his company would “continue…
Wayfinding on the Web
We’ve come a long way since the early days of the web, both as information consumers and search marketers. But we can…
Vote For Your Favorite Search Blog
Loren Baker over at Search Engine Journal is asking people to vote for their favorite search blogs. Hey, if you like us,…
Yahoo Plans Reality TV Show: “Wow House”
Continuing to believe that to be a media company, you’ve got to own your own original media, Yahoo’s planning a reality TV…
Google Releases Homepage API
Tonight, Google released a new service allowing developers the opportunity to create “modules” for the Google personalized homepage. Google software engineer, Adam…
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