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Search Engine Strategies Chicago: Day Four
The conference is all over and many attendees are heading to O’Hare and Midway for some fun (not) at the airport while Chicago receives some snow and experiences…
A Potpourri of Search Technology Books
I review all sorts of search-related books in SearchDay. Part three of my collection of search-related book reviews, A Compilation Search Technology…
Google Labs Quietly Releases Transit Trip Travel Planner for Portland, Oregon
Via Yahoo’s Zawodny: Word of Google Transit Trip Planner. This new Google Labs beta (not to be confused with Google Ride Finder,…
A Compilation Search Technology Book Reviews
Want to hack together your own search engine? Curious to dig deeper into data mining? Here's a compilation of various search-related book…
The Birth of Yahoo Answers
Now out in beta is Yahoo Answers, Yahoo’s new social networking/online community/question answering service. The service allows any registered Yahoo user to…
Google Catalogs Goes Offline for Retooling
In the past 24 hours or so one of Google’s most useful and different tools went offline for what appears to be…
Tweaks to Gmail Reported
Google Blogscoped with a nice chunk of info about changes and additions to Gmail. You’ll learn that mail attachments from Word, Acrobat…
How Does Ask Jeeves Get Its Advertising Point Across?
Along with the awesome coverage by Barry and Phoenix of SES Chicago, here’s another story from the SES Cconference via DMNews.com. This…
Confirmed: Windows Live Local Coming Tomorrow With Cool Aerial Imagery
SEW Blog can now officially report that Windows Live Local, the new local search + aerial imagery service, will go live online…
Google and Microsoft Play “The Price is Right” with AOL
According to a Reuters story (via News.com): Microsoft, Google still vying for AOL: that proposals from both Microsoft and Google have been…
Reports from Search Engine Strategies Chicago: Day Three
It’s day three at SES Chicago and Barry and Phoenix are still keeping warm buy working hard and providing complete session reviews.…
Google Once Again Looking for Ad Quality Raters
We’ve blogged numerous times about Google and their quality rater program. A quick note to let you know that once again Google…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Dec 7, 2005
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
About.com Ready to Relaunch
DMNews reports that about nine months after the NY Times purchased About.com, the site/service is about to relaunch. The news was made…
Survey: Google Earns Top Corporate Reputation in Only Seven Years
A Wall Street Journal article (free): Ranking Corporate Reputations, reports that Google placed third this year in the annual Reputation Quotient ranking,…
Eric Schmidt Lays Out Google’s Ten Golden Rules
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, along with co-author UC Berkeley professor Hal Varian,, has written: “Google’s Ten Golden Rules” for Newsweek on getting…
Reports from Search Engine Strategies Chicago: Day Two
The cold temps continue in Chicago but Barry and Phoenix (what a perfect name for December in Chicago) are busy posting session…
Two Alternative Local Search Services
Local search from the major players is steadily improving, but meanwhile, two smaller players are making impressive advances in providing search results…
Looking for Revenue Opportunities in Microsoft’s Plans to Digitize British Library Materials
In an exclusive Information World Review interview: BL opens up to Microsoft and reveals revenue aims, Alistair Baker, Microsoft’s UK managing director,…
Eric Schmidt Tells John Battelle: “We’re Not in the Portal Business”
In a new Q&A style interview in Business 2.0 , the covers a lot of ground, John “The Search” Battelle chats with…
Exploring the Googleverse on SiliconValley.com’s Roundtable
This week the team at SiliconValley.com are running on online roundtable discussion titled: The Googleverse: Intelligently designed and evolving. Topics range from…
Latest on Insider Sales at the Googleplex
Via Nathan over at InsideGoogle, this AP article about insiders at Google selling shares of Goog shares titled: Google insiders cash in…
Even More Online Book Search Sites
Gary has been blogging about several online services, such as Google Book Search and ebrary, that allow you to search, and in…
More Online Books Resources
NetLibrary and The Online Books Page are two excellent services for searching for and reading online books, offering access free of charge.
Search Research: Link Context in Classifier-Guided Crawlers
Here’s a new and interesting research paper that might be of interest and make for some interesting reading. It’s being made available…
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