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IM Info Bots Come to MSN Messenger
BetaNews reports that MSN has release two new IM “bots” (type in a query and get an automated response) for MSN Messenger are now available. This page offers…
Collaborative Web Tagging Will Be Topic of Workshop at WWW 2006
Collaborative taggers should tag the following item, “workshop.” The RawSugar Blog (RawSugar is a social search engine (beta) with over 135,000 URLs…
Millions of eBay Items Now Searchable on MSN Shopping
Just in time for the holiday shopping season and interesting move from MS. You can now search MSN Shopping and find items…
Public Domain Books: More than 25,000 Full Text Books in a Single Database
Talk about online books seem to be a very frequent topic of conversation in the search world today. In the past few…
A Flaw Could Cause Problems for Google Desktop Users Who Use Internet Explorer
Google Spokesperson, Sonya Boralv, has told News.com that Google has just learned about and is looking into a possible flaw with Internet…
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 2, 2005: Google Sandbox Effect, Yahoo’s Search Behaviorally Targeted Ads, Will Personalized Search Work, All Official Google Blog Posts In One & More!
Today’s search podcast covers the Google Sandbox effect and how some feel it prevents new sites from ranking well; Yahoo’s search behaviorally…
Google: From AdWords and AdSense to Publication Ads
BusinessWeeks’s Ben Elgin takes an in-depth look at what appears to be Google’s growing interest in the publication ad business in the…
MSN Using Human Quality Raters to Review Results
Via Threadwatch (and its new man in charge, Aaron Wall), word that MSN Search is also using quality raters to revew and…
Yahoo Adds RSS Alerts Delivered via E-Mail, IM, or SMS
The other day Danny blogged about Yahoo adding an RSS viewing option to the beta version (that I like a lot) of…
December Begins With Plug-In-Palooza for Google Desktop and Sidebar
The first of December has given us a bunch of new plug-ins for the Google Desktop and Sidebar. Here’s a quick list.…
A Look at Working at Ask Jeeves
I’m regularly posting about job openings and working life at Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, I don’t think I’ve ever included any…
November 2005 Search News Recap Posted
The latest edition of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now online, recapping tops stories in search from the past month.…
Yahoo Impulse & Search Behavioral Ads
Yahoo using online behavior to target ads from Reuters covers briefly the “new, new thing” according to Yahoo executive vice president Greg…
After Product Pitch, Google Won’t Call Back But Still Tests The Product
Spotted via Threadwatch, search tech start-up Kozoru finds that after presenting to Google, they won’t return emails or phone calls — but…
Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 2, 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:…
The Search Engine Update – Number 210 – Dec. 2, 2005
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the second half of November 2005.
Google Sandbox, Sandbox-Like Filters & Escaping With Trusted Links
For well over a year, there's been massive debate and speculation that Google puts all new sites into a 'sandbox,' preventing them…
Search Engines Forum Spotlight
Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Just how Important is SEO in a Business Start Up…
Blinkx Announces Co-Branding Deal with The Times of London
The Times of London sure seems to be making a lot of search-related deals of late. Today, Netimperative reports that the they’ve…
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 1, 2005: Microsoft’s Classifieds Service Shapes Up, Google’s War Chest To Fight Redmond, Yahoo Gets Firefox Win, Upset Over Bios At Wikipedia & More!
Today’s search podcast covers how Microsoft’s classified ads service is shaping up, Google building a war chest to fight Microsoft, Yahoo ousting…
Danny’s Personal Blog Is Live
A non-search item here, but some of you may be interested. I’ve finally gotten my personal blog going, Daggle. I’ve actually been…
Simultaneously Search and Browse All of Google’s Many Blogs; RSS Feed Also Available
Philipp over at Google Blogoscoped is one of my favorite people in the blogosphere. I just mentioned yesterday what a great job…
Google Brings Anti-Virus Scanning to Gmail
Word from Gmail team at Google this afternoon that they’ve just launches anti-virus scanning to the service for all incoming and outgoing…
Google Builds Anti-Microsoft War Chest, Expect Ads To Keep Booming & Yahoo The Stealth Search Warrior
Three business items I’m throwing into one post, Google explaining it has built up cash to fend of an unnamed big competitor,…
Official Google Talk Blog Launches & All-In-One Official Google Blog Posts Page
Yet another official blog from Google, this one for Google Talk. When we gained the Google Base blog, I wished for Google…
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