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Learning About and Understanding Web Spam
Here’s some great reading, viewing and material for your reference shelf. With web spam continuing to be a very hot topic, I wanted to point out two papers…
MSN’s AdCenter: More than Just Keyword Advertising
Ina Fried’s News.com excellent overview article: Microsoft’s ad pitch underpins Net moves, offers a look at Redmond’s foray into selling search advertising…
Google Looking for Spanish Language Quality Raters
Do you speak and read Spanish have “experience” in Spain and other Spanish speaking countries? If so, than Google has just published…
Google Personalized Search Now Includes News Results
Yesterday, Google rolled out an improved version of personalized search results, saying that news results would be included “soon.” That didn’t take…
Google Cache Problems
Cache not working? at our Search Engine Watch Forums and Missing: Google Cache at Threadwatch cover some people having trouble getting access…
Murder, Love Gone Awry, Google Searches & Bogus Clicks
Google Blogoscoped and Andy Beal both point to a story about an accused murderer searching for "neck," "snap," "break" and "hold" on…
Google Publication Ads Site & More On Print Ads
I wrote earlier about Vinny Lingham reporting that Google was going to test putting print ads in Chicago newspapers. In case you…
Yahoo Recruiting Google’s Matt Cutts
You’ve seen this type of thing before, but time for another chuckle — Google’s Matt Cutts gets a mistaken recruitment email from…
Search Forums Roundup: Nov. 11, 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:…
Ask Jeeves To Rebrand Tech As ExpertRank Inside?
Gary Price — awesome sleuth that is he — was doing some searching of the US Patent Office & Trademark Office database…
Imagery Comes to LookSmart’s FindArticles
RLG, a highly respected organization in the library world with more than 150 research libraries as members, has announced a partnership with…
Who’s A GAP? WhoisaGAP Helps You Find Google Advertising Professionals
Are you a Google Advertising Professional? Want to find one? While Google certifies them, it doesn’t give you a list of them.…
PC Magazine Reviews Six Comparison Shopping Sites, PriceGrabber Gets Top Honors
In a PC Magazine review of six comparison shopping sites titled: Price-Comparison Sites Strive to Save You Time and Money, Rick Broida…
Yahoo China Relaunched With Pure Search Focus & New Majority Owner
Yahoo China has been acquired by Alibaba.com and relaunched as a pure search service. Here’s the rundown on the changes and some…
Yahoo No Longer Bidding for Piece of AOL
Reuters and the Wall Street Journal report that Yahoo is no longer interested in getting a piece of the AOL pie. After…
Google Wants Free WiFi For Mountain View
Like others, we were dubious when Google said it didn’t have plans to expand free wifi outside of San Francisco, where it…
Google Personalized Search Grows Up
Google seems to be amping up the pace of pushing products out of the nest. This morning, the company moved Personalized search…
Mike Grehan’s Son Attacked, Recovering
Mike Grehan’s a popular search writer that many know. Sadly, his son was recently attacked by someone with his knife and seriously…
Matt Cutts Banned On Google? And Oct. 2005 Jagger Update Winds Down
A look at how the recent Google update is causing domain name consolidation problems that hit even the blog of popular Google…
Google Personalized Search Leaves Google Labs
Google's personalized search has graduated from Google Labs and is now available to users on 39 worldwide Google domains in addition to…
A Look at Some Patent Applications from Yahoo, Microsoft and Others
With so much attention being placed on each and every U.S. patent application that Google has published, I thought it would be…
Learn About Open Content Alliance Book Scanning at the University of Toronto
Book digitization has been going on at the University of Toronto Libraries for some time. In fact, I wrote about scanning at…
October 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.…
Macmillan’s Book Digitisation Program: BookStore
Trying to keep all of the book digitization projects out there in some order is becoming a full time job. The Information…
Google Adds Option to Limit to Creative Commons Licensed Material
Many sources including Philipp, Nathan, and Tara, have reported that Google has made an addition to their advanced search interface and now…
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