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Yahoo Offers Free Business Web Sites
Yahoo is expanding its Yahoo Local search service by providing a free web site to business owners that will automatically be integrated into Yahoo Local listings.
Rocket News Releases New Version of Desktop News Search App
RocketNews, a web news search resource that we’ve mentioned many times and like a lot, is online today with a new beta…
Google Malta Suffers From Embarrassing Translation
Malta Today is reporting that the Google Malta home page was hacked. The search button fittex (search) encountered a momentary metamorphosis on…
Larry Page Returns As University Commencement Speaker
The Michigan Daily reports that Google co-founder Larry Page will deliver the commencement address to the graduates of the University of Michigan…
Yahoo Names New Head of Yahoo Research Labs
Just a couple of hours after Danny blogged about Dr. Gary Flake from the Yahoo Research Lab heading to Microsoft, we here…
MSN Steals Head Of Yahoo Labs
MSN tells us it has just hired Dr. Gary Flake as a distinguished engineer, the first such external hire for a distinguished…
Google Debuts Local Mobile
Google has added a new service that enables cell phone users in the U.S. to use a remarkably robust version of Google…
Building Intelligent Search Tools
It’s two for Tuesday on the SEW Blog. (-: We have two travel search news items and two posts about multimedia search.…
Q&A Interview With an Indeed.com Co-Founder
Interested in learning more about job search vertical, Indeed.com? Nathan Enns from The Search Industry Blog and Fybersearch has posted a ten…
MySimon Founders Return for Encore
The guys behind pioneering shopping search service MySimon are back, with a new service called Become.com that offers a number of cool…
Ask Jeeves Enhances MyJeeves; Tagging Option Added
Ask Jeeves has just released an upgrade to their MyJeeves personalized search tool that Ask.com launched last September. New for MyJeeves users…
Become.com Launches Shopping Search Engine
The founders of pioneering shopping search engine MySimon have teamed up again to produce Become.com, a new service that provides information and…
More Plug-ins For Google Desktop Search Now Available
Google Desktop Search users will be happy to learn that the Googleplex has just posted a batch of new plug-ins for the…
Google Files Proxy Statement with SEC; Brin, Page, and Schmidt Salary Set at $1.00
Hot off the press is the Google’s Definitive Proxy Statement. Info about executive compensation, Eric Schmidt’s employment agreement (he is currently receiving…
Research Papers: Rankings, Link Farms, Personalization, and PageRank Collusion
Yesterday’s post about the revised research paper that will be presented at the WWW2005 Conference next month reminded me that I need…
Search Forums Roundup: Apr. 8, 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:…
Searching Books at Google; Comparing Coverage with Amazon’s Search Inside the Book
For several weeks I’ve noticed that using the trigger word “books” or “book” in a Google search always included a OneBox with…
Browse Yahoo Images with First Floor Image Search; Lenssen Releases New Version of FindForward
Here’s a neat and new image search/browse tool from a company called First Floor Software that uses the Yahoo Image Search API.…
Google Launches Q&A Service, Answers Directly on Results Pages
I’ve said for quite some time that search engines will slowly but surely become “answer engines” for “ready reference” or factual types…
Yahoo Senior VP of Search Speaks at Wharton School of Business
A few weeks ago, Jeff Weiner, Yahoo’s Senior VP Search and Marketplace, gave a talk at the Wharton School of Business in…
MSN Officially Launches “Spaces” Blogging Service
A brief article from Reuters announces the fact that Microsoft has taken their Spaces weblog publishing service out of beta and is…
Update: NY Gubernatorial Candidate Removes Google Ad
Elliot Spitzer, a Democrat running for governor of New York has pulled the Google ad that Danny blogged about yesterday. The keyword…
Wikipedia Gets Support from Yahoo
More Yahoo mojo? (-: We read a few weeks ago about how Google might help the Wikipedia by providing server space and…
Blogs, Boards, and Posts: Capturing Consumer Buzz Online
A new category of software tools has emerged that uses search engine technology to find and organize consumer-posted thoughts and opinions. These…
March 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.…
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