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Google Regains Its Hijacked Listing; This Was A Big Deal, Folks!
Two days after it appeared, Google has finally managed to get its hijacked listing restored for queries on adsense and google adsense. Two days! And this to correct…
Diller: Ask Jeeves Might Get New Name
According to this Marketwatch.com story, Barry Diller told attendees at the D3 — All Things Digital conference that he is condering a…
Research Workshop On Sponsored Search
Workshop on Sponsored Search Auctions is a workshop covering research about paid listings and sponsored search, being held as part of the…
New Cease-And-Desist Notices Sent To Google
Gary passed along three new complaints at Chilling Effects asking Google to pull material because of defamation concerns. The first involved Relevance…
Google Desktop Search Now Available in Many Langauges
A post on the Google Blog points out that Google Desktop Search is now available in several languages. + French + Italian…
Forget Google Print Copyright Infringement; Search Engines Already Infringe
Gary blogged earlier about the Association of American University Presses having concerns that Google Print’s digital library program may be equal to…
Searching for a Good Flick? Ask Yahoo Movies
Amazon popularized the idea of a recommendation service, suggesting books and other products based on what you and other people have purchased.…
Yahoo Launches Personalized Movie Recommendations
Looking for a film recommendation based on your own personal tastes and interests? Check out Yahoo's new personalized movie recommendations, launched today.
Schmidt to Speak in Seattle
Thanks to Greg for pointing out that Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, will be speaking at the University of Washington on Thursday. His…
A Google Ad Exchange Service? Domains Suggest It Might Happen
The Google Exchange from MarketWatch looks at the possibility of Google offering some type of advertising exchange service. In other words, beyond…
An Upstart Challenger to Web Search Giants
You don’t see many new general purpose search engines emerge these days—the major players pretty much dominate, and it takes a lot…
Introducing a New Web Search Contender
These days, web search is dominated by giants, and it's rare to see the emergence of a new potentially world-class search engine.…
Could a New Algorithm Increase Profits for Search Ad Providers?
Phys.org has posted a news release from Georgia Tech University in Atlanta about a new computer algorithm, “that could further increase profits…
Yahoo Announces a Challenge for Webmasters, Bloggers, and Web Developers
This morning Yahoo launched the YQ Challenge to find the “most innovative” implementations of their YQ contextual search platform. Yahoo launched YQ…
Some Publishers Not Happy With Google’s Library Digitization Program
When I first learned about Google’s plan to digitize the full text holdings of several large libraries one of the first things…
ODP Forum Closes Status Check Service; Time For The ODP To Close?
Been wondering what’s going on with your Open Directory submission? The Resource Zone site has long offered a way to ask ODP…
BitTorrent Plans to Launch Search Engine & Carry Ask Jeeves Ads
While several earch tools exist to find BitTorrent material (movies, music, software and other files), the service itself has not offered its…
Search Forums Roundup: May 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:…
New South African Web Engine Now Online
If you track regional search engines you might be interested in a new service that searches only pages from the South Africa…
New From Yahoo: Guide to RSS for Publishers
The new Yahoo Publisher’s Guide to RSS will be especially useful as a one-stop shop for those just getting started with the…
Google News Study Finds Bias But Not Favoritism — But Study Also Has Flaws
A study has found that Google News results are significantly more likely to have an ideological bias than Yahoo News, though the…
Google Factory Tour Recap
So Google’s first Google Factory Tour has ended. Overall, I’d say it was a great success on the PR front — at…
Google and X1 offer New Desktop Search Services for Business Customers
A couple of days ago Google announced that Google Desktop Search was now available for enterprise users. Google Desktop Search, Enterprise Edition…
Reactions To My Google Personalized Home Page
So the My Google service — ahem, Google Personalized Home Page — is now out. What’s being said? Here’s a round-up of…
Ask Buys Excite Europe; To Share Excite.com With Infospace
A Reuters article about 10 days ago mentioned that Ask Jeeves was planning on offering new services throughout Western Europe. These plans…
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