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Google Base Goes Live
Google Base, which some people got an early glimpse at last month, is now live (or supposed to be) for anyone to play with. So what’s in it,…
Google Tweaks Robots.txt File
For those of you who track such things, Google made a tweak to its Robots.txt file in the past day or so.…
Rashtchy: Google Will Be Major Player at E-Commerce 3.0
Highly regarded analyst, Safa Rashtchy, from Piper Jaffey has some powerful words about Google’s future in the e-commerce space in comments made…
MS Releases Free Desktop Search Client for Enterprise Users
Word from Gates, Ballmer, and crew that Microsoft’s Desktop Search is now available and free for enterprise users. Use of the Windows…
Yahoo’s “Community” of User Tools and Services
With today’s SearchDay article about the new “community-oriented” Yahoo Shopping feature, “Shoposphere,” Searchblog points to an interesting five page read from Business…
Yahoo Debuts the Shoposphere
Traditionally, shopping search has revolved around providing product information and expert reviews, occasionally supplemented by reviews from customers that are often of…
Yahoo Personalizes Shopping, Adds Community Features
Continuing its efforts to tap into personal and collective knowledge in search, Yahoo has enhanced its shopping service with a number of…
New: Searchable Database of Published Opinions by Supreme Court Nominee, Judge Samuel Alito
I usually post this type of material over on ResourceShelf but thought that this one was worthy a post on our blog.…
Google’s Quarterly Report Officially Released by SEC
Although Google publicly announced their quarterly earnings a few weeks ago, those of you who love to and read quarterly reports will…
Yahoo Culture: Sunnyvale & Santa Monica
In Chris Gaither’s LA Times (free, reg. required) article, Can Yahoo Sign On to Hollywood?, you’ll read about the very different cultures…
More on the End of Yahoo/AOL Talks
We blogged late last week that Yahoo had dropped out of the running for a piece of AOL. More details about what…
An Excerpt from The Google Story
It’s time for another book about search, Google to be specific. While John Battelle’s excellent book The Search is about the search…
Shopzilla Comes to the UK
I guess one shopping search post deserves another. Netimperative reports that Shopzilla has just expanded into the UK. The company also offers…
Shopping Engine Smarter.com Launches in China and Japan
We’ve posted that shopping engine, Smarter.com, would be moving into the Chinese and Japanese markets with new shopping engine services. Today is…
Search and Read Full Text Books Online via ebrary
Since book search is all the rage these days I want to spend a few minutes talking in-depth about a service I’ve…
Yahoo To Have Podcast Creation & Hosting Service
Via Scripting News, Podcasts Help Drive Demand for High-Volume Hosting has Yahoo saying it wants to go beyond podcast search with a…
Google Exploring Book Rental Plan
Via News.com, Google Checks Out Interest In Online Book ‘Rental’ Plan at the Wall Street Journal covers Google having approached at least…
Omnicom Buys Resolution Media
Omnicom Buys Its First SEM Agency from ClickZ covers ad and marketing conglomerate Omnicom Group purchasing Chicago-based Resolution Media.
Yahoo Nov. 2005 Update Part 2 Underway
Yahoo advises that it’s making another index update this month. Unlike the first one, more changes are likely. See the Yahoo post…
Google Renames Urchin Google Analytics, Makes It Free
Google has renamed its Urchin web analytics unit to be — yep — Google Analytics (as Gary predicted), in a move that…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Nov 14, 2005
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Google Registers A Few New Domain Names
The folks in Mountain View have registered a few new domains in the past couple of days. + GoogleMagazines.com also registered in…
MSN ‘s Live.com and Start.com Offer “Feed” Only Search Tab
It looks like MSN continues to slowly release its feed search tool. In August, Danny and others posted about two “undocumented”* pieces…
Your Life, Your Database: MyLifeBits Developer Gordon Bell Profiled in New Article
Total Recall, an article in the November issue of IEEE’s Spectrum magazine offers a five page profile of Gordon Bell and his…
Bloglines Expands “Universal Inbox” Initiative with Job Listings
Two job search aggregators, Indeed.com and SimplyHired have always offered keyword-based RSS and e-mail alerts to notify users of new job postings.…
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