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Google’s Marissa Mayer Profiled
John Battelle called Google’s Marissa Mayer a "hummingbird" of a woman in his new book The Search, which is a great description for anyone who has ever met…
Emcee James Fallows Expects Blogorrhea Leaks Of Google Zeitgeist 05
Reader P. Webster sends me word that in the current edition of transAtlantic, a rundown of happenings related to The Atlantic magazine…
Microsoft Opens adCenter & MSN Keywords To Singapore & France
Microsoft has officially launched its adCenter system to sell paid search in France and Singapore. More details in this company press release.…
Google Targeting College Students With Newspaper Ads
I wrote earlier of Google targeting colleges with a special "College Life" page at Google. Now the other part of that story…
Apology To David Berlind
I postscripted an apology to my critique of ZDNet’s David Berlind’s complaint in wanting Google Alerts to offer a blog-specific email alerting…
Vivisimo and MSN to Power FirstGov
Vivisimo has been awarded a federal government contract to provide search technology to the U.S. Government's FirstGov.gov portal, with MSN Search playing…
FirstGov Switches to Vivisimo & MSN
FirstGov, the official U.S. government information and services portal, will soon be powered by Vivisimo and MSN Search. Since 2002, FirstGov has…
Search Marketing Spend Increasing at a Healthy Clip
A new survey from Marketing Sherpa reports on current and projected spend for search engine optimization and paid search campaigns. MarketingSherpa cites…
Miva UK Launches Algorithmic Search
Miva has rolled out a new algorithmic web search functionality to its distribution partners in the UK, powered by Fast Search &…
MSN Search Offers Free Full Text Access to Encarta Encyclopedia
Researchers might be interested to learn that MSN Search is offering a free access to the full text (not just blurbs) of…
Scale is a Key Technology Challenge at Google
Lengedary computer programmer, Peter Weinberger, now works at Google as a software engineer. Unix geeks might already know that Weinberger is the…
Daily SearchCast, Sept. 23, 2005: Forbes And The Richest People In Search, Getting AdSense Into Your Blogger Blog, Time Warner Loves AOL, New Search Suggestion Feature For Google Toolbar & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Forbes naming the richest people — and lots of them are in search. Plus getting AdSense more easily…
Google Testing Remove Results Feature
Google’s testing a new option letting a small percentage of people remove results they don’t like from their own personalized search results.…
Vivisimo and MSN Awarded Contract to Power Search on FirstGov
Word in this news release that Vivisimo (the Clusty people) has been awarded a federal government contract to provide search techology to…
New Watson Sidebar for MSN Search
Watson, a “proactive” search utility that watches what you do and automatically provides related search results from the web, is now available…
Google Enhances AdSense Tools for Blogger Users
Via Search Engine Roundtable, a JenSense post about Google releasing enhancements that makes it easy, very easy according to SER’s Barry Schwartz,…
Search Forums Roundup: Sep. 23, 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:…
AOL.com Portal Leaves Beta
After a three month beta period, the AOL.com open web portal has been officially released. The AOL.com home page offers access to…
GoogleTV Job Posting is No Longer Online
This morning I wanted to take a closer look at the GoogleTV job listing that was discoverd just two days ago and…
Time Warner Keeping AOL
Via Threadwatch, Time Warner Head Says AOL Is the Company’s Future from the New York Times covers how Time Warner sees AOL…
Recapping Official Search Engine Blogs
Search Engine Blogs as Public Relations Tools from Loren Baker over at Search Engine Journal is a nice overview of how the…
Silicon Valley Search SIG Has First Meeting, Talks Audio Search
I’ve been meaning to write about SDForum’s Silicon Valley Search SIG since Robert Scoble mentioned it earlier this month. The new group…
Google Toolbar For Firefox Leaves Beta, Gains Google Suggest
Google reports on its blog that the Google Firefox Toolbar has gained Google Suggest query suggestions. Hey, if it’s good enough for…
Yes, Google Does Alert You To New Blog Finds
ZDNet’s David Berlind rants that Google Alerts don’t include blogs, so he can’t get an email update on news found via the…
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