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Information Wants to be Found
A modern paradox: As information becomes more abundant and easier to access, it's often more difficult to find what we're really looking for. That needn't be the case,…
A Look Back as Google’s Library Project Passes the One Year Mark
Tomorrow, the Google Library Project will be one year old. It’s been quite a year of news and controversy. Here’s a link…
Google Joins NASDAQ 100 Stock Index; Visualize the Index with Cool Dynamic “Heat Map”
Word that Google has been added to the NASDAQ 100 stock index. This index is, “designed to comprise the largest and most…
Konfabulator Becomes Yahoo Widgets
It’s all in a name. Via GB, word that Yahoo has renamed their Konfabulator (see: Puzzled by Yahoo’s Konfabulator Purchase? Don’t Be)…
ABC News Named Top News Site of 2005
Newsknife, an organization that monitors online news sites for quality and other metrics, has released its annual ranking of sites, with ABC…
New Google Catalogs Database Now Live
That was fast. Via Google Blogoscoped word that Google Catalogs, you know, the one that went offline last week, is now back…
Searches for Google’s Share Price, AdWords, and New Homes
So a Googler or the relative of a Googler goes to Google and types in the ticker symbol of Google (GOOG) to…
Havoc With Google Accounts
For the past week, I was surprised to discover that despite having an active Google Analytics account, I kept getting a message…
ZoomInfo Enhances People Search
ZoomInfo, the Boston-based 'people search' company has added several new features that help you search more than 27 million personal profiles.
Yahoo and Aussie TV Net Announce Ad Partnership; Plans to Form New Company
Kevin Newcomb reports in Clickz that Yahoo Australia & NZ and Australian TV network, Seven Network will form a new company that…
Book Digitization: Project Gutenberg Founder Interviewed
We’re talking a lot about digitized books these days here on the blog. Project Gutenberg has been around since 1971 digitizing and…
New Stuff from Google AdWords: Troubleshooting Wizards, Landing Pages & Your Quality Score, and Larger Font Sizes For AdWords
Three items on the Google AdWords beat to report on: a new troubleshooting wizard for advertisers with missing ads, landing pages factored…
A Recommended Reading List for Info Retrieval Geeks
If your a search and information retrieval geek, an article in the just online issue of SIGIR Forum has a great annotated…
Del.icio.us (or is it Yahoo.licio.us?) Bookmarks Come to the Google Sidebar; Indeed.com Also Now Sidebar Accessible
So, your a Del.icio.us or is it now “Yahoo.licio.us” bookmarks user and you also use the Google Desktop Sidebar. Well, thanks to…
A New Online Poetry Archive and Database; Writing Online With Writely.com
About a week ago, the The Online Poetry Archive (OPA) debuted in the UK and is now accessible on the web. The…
Google Job Opening For Head Of Classified Advertising Efforts
There has been massive amounts of talk about Google’s involvement and role in the classified advertising business ( Google Base? Google Automat?).…
Heading To London Geek Dinner
I’ve just made it back home from our SES Chicago show today, but I’m going to fight jet lag and make it…
Is a Mac Version of Google Earth Coming Soon?
Hours after MS Launched their Live Local service with the cool bird’s eye imagery, stories are surfacing about the possible release (no…
Tag It: Acquisition, Yahoo Acquires del.icio.us
Even developing their own MyWeb 2.0 (tag, save, share service) and the Yahoo 360 set of services, Yahoo still wants more assets…
Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 9, 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:…
New Patent Apps from Yahoo (Data Extraction) and Microsoft (Electronic Yellow Pages) Published
The USPTO published two patent applications yesterday. One from Yahoo and and the other from Microsoft that I think are worthy of…
Yahoo Releases International Web Search Services; Yahoo Switzerland Search Goes Live
Here’s one for the developers out there. Yahoo’s Toby Elliott points out that the comany has just released the Yahoo Web Search…
Profile Of Connotate Enterprise Search Company & Fight Over Control Of FAST
The Deal.com’s Lou Whiteman (via News.com), offers a profile of Connotate, a company that sees what “traditional” engines can’t. The technology comes…
Popular Search Terms Determine Topic of Collabarative and Web-Based Art Project
Sarah Boxer, in a New York Times article (via News.com) offers a look at site from Australia that uses popular search terms…
Tag Your Job Postings with the New MyIndeed.com
Things are happening fast a furious at job metasearch vertical engine Indeed.com lately. It’s a service I use quite a bit to…
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