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Craigslist Says No To Oodle’s Scraping

Via John Battelle, news that classified ads search engine Oodle has been asked by Craigslist to stop scraping their listings. Oodle says most listings, 80 percent, don’t come…

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Oct 2005

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Pure Yahoo Blog Search Via Threadwatch

I wished earlier that Yahoo would move ahead with a standalone blog search service, rather than forcing you to go thorugh Yahoo…

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Oct 2005

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Smarter.com Co-Founder Does Video Interview

Those of you who follow shopping search closely might like to take a look at this video interview with, Talmadge O’Neill, one…

By Gary Price · 13 Oct 2005

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Bloglines Announces Enhancements To Service

Mark Fletcher (a very nice guy by the way) and his Bloglines team are announcing several new enchancements to the Bloglines web-based…

By Gary Price · 13 Oct 2005

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Daily SearchCast, Oct. 13, 2005: Google Buying Part Of AOL?, Spellchecking With The Google Toolbar, The Google Dentist Hoax, Mixing Google Maps And Wikipedia, Pimping Your Mobile Bookmarks & More!

Today’s search podcast covers Google considering buying a piece of AOL, spellchecking with the Google Toolbar, Google’s onsite dentist being a hoax,…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Oct 2005

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The Google Toolbar Spellchecker & Getting Spellchecking In Your Search Box

Yesterday, I wrote about what seemed to be a new feature Google was testing to put spell checking into the search box.…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Oct 2005

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Google’s Onsite Dentist Is A Hoax!

It turns out there is no onsite dentist as Google, as we and others reported yesterday. Yeah, you got us! Google Blogoscope’s…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Oct 2005

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Want to Be A Google AdWords Coordinator in China?

I noticed for the first time this afternoon (am I late to the party on this one?) that Google is advertising on…

By Gary Price · 13 Oct 2005

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Nice Work if You Can Get It: Details Emerge About Google’s Newest Board Members Stock Package

Here’s some nice additional work if you can get it, get on the Google Board of Directors! It was widely reported last…

By Gary Price · 13 Oct 2005

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Mapping Places in Wikipedia

Where in the world is the Kaministiquia River? Wikipedia tells us that the river empties into western Lake Superior at the city…

By Chris Sherman · 12 Oct 2005

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Yahoo 360 Kicks It Up…A Notch

A post on the Yahoo 360 Blog points out that you can now “kick” your Yahoo 360 space “up a notch” (ala…

By Gary Price · 12 Oct 2005

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Google and Comcast are in Talks to Acquire Minority Stake in AOL

Here we go again. More news on the AOL/Microsoft/Google story. The Wall Street Journal has just posted a report that Google and…

By Gary Price · 12 Oct 2005

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Google.org (aka Google Foundation) Web Site Has Now Been Updated

Earlier, Danny blogged details about plans for the new Google Foundation. He mentioned in his post that the official Google.org site had…

By Gary Price · 12 Oct 2005

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Yahoo Blog Search Gets RSS Feed

Yahoo dropped me a note to tell me one of my complaints about its new blog search service has been solved. You…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Oct 2005

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New Google Librarian Center Opens

Phil Bradley points to what looks to be a new Google Librarian Center, where a quarterly newsletter for librarians is promised, presumably…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Oct 2005

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UK Government Pondering Changes To Searches On Suicides

I saw this come up on Threadwatch and someone’s just posted to our SEW Forums about it, as well. Clampdown on chatrooms…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Oct 2005

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Looking For Secret Google Subdomains

With all the watching of Google subdomains and what they might indicate, such speculation over a Google Calendar, Google Blogoscoped points to…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Oct 2005

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MC Hammer Visits Google

Honestly, I saw Dirson post about MC Hammer visiting Google and thought, "Do we need yet another celebrity visits Google mention?" I…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Oct 2005

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Which SEO Company To Trust?

Readers Concerned about SEO Ethics from Jim Hedger at Search Engine Guide looks at questions he’s gotten about how to decide which…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Oct 2005

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Looking At MSN Search Ranking & Indexing Factors

What to Take Away from MSN’s Responses from SEOmoz zooms in on the Community Questions to the MSN Web Search Team article…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Oct 2005

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Brin Comments On No Office Suite Plans, Not Producing Original Content & More

In case you missed it, John points out that Google cofounder Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance at his Web 2.0 conference…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Oct 2005

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Google Tooth: Google’s Onsite Dentist

If you’re going to give your employees free meals, I guess you’ve got to give them a dentist to take care of…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Oct 2005

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UK Agencies Push Back On Google Commission Restructuring

I wrote earlier of Google ending/cutting commission payments to agencies in Europe as of January 1. Google under fire for scrapping agency…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Oct 2005

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Google Testing New Spell Correction In Search Box & Again, A Plea To Post When Such Experiments Happening!

Nice catch spotted via Threadwatch, Google’s Testing New Dictionary Feature at Justilien.com has news and a screenshot of Google testing a new…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Oct 2005

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Google Gives Google Foundation Update, Though Official Site Remains Mum

Google has given an update on what its Google Foundation is doing. The charitable group, promised as part of its IPO, has…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Oct 2005

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