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FirstGov Requests Info from Search Vendors
The Government Computer Week article GSA releases RFI for new FirstGov search reports that the General Services Administration (the providers of FirstGov) has published a request for information…
Digital Impact To Be Acquired By Acxiom
Data management and marketing company Acxiom is to acquire Digital Impact, giving the company a new search marketing presence. Digital Impact gained…
Can The Cookie Be Saved?
Crumbling Cookies Threaten SEM and Online Advertising from Kevin Lee at ClickZ looks at how a growing number of consumers eschewing cookies…
Google Employee On 20 Percent Time
Many of you have heard about the "20 percent time" Google employees are allowed to spend on anything they want. In Google…
Bloglines Adds Package Tracking; More To Come
Bloglines has rolled out a new package tracking feature today that keeps you updated on the progress of items being shipped through…
Making Your Searches More Contextually Aware
Aware is a desktop search application that learns from context, automatically fine-tuning your search results and providing controls that allow you to…
Save Yahoo Local Data in Spreadsheet Format
Here’s a new and potentially useful app (for Windows) that I just spotted on the Yahoo Developer Network Wiki. Do you want…
On Yahoo’s Mojo & The Tiresome Need For Perspective
I’d largely agree with Om Malik’s idea that Yahoo is a sharper company that seen in the past, which he addresses in…
LookSmart Launches Five New Verticals
Search verticals are hot so LookSmart launched five new vertical sites today aimed at different user groups. Each offers access to FindArticles…
Google’s Orkut Media Offers RSS Feeds
With the Yahoo 360 social networking site making its semi-public debut, I thought it would be interesting to log back into rival…
Yahoo 360 Community Site Opens, Sort Of
We’ve mentioned the Yahoo 360 social networking-blogging-photo sharing service before. Now the Yahoo Search Blog is telling the world about it officially:…
Google To Acquire Urchin Web Analytics Firm
Google is to acquired the Urchin web analytics firm, which provides both hosted and log-based tools for understanding how people are interacting…
Looking for Links In All The Wrong Places?
In their frenzy to build links to curry favor with the major search engines, web site owners miss a far more important…
Ask Jeeves Still Plans to Expand European HQ in Ireland
A brief article in Ireland’s Sunday Business Post reports that despite the IAC acquisition, Ask Jeeves is still planning to expand their…
Indeed.com and Other Job Verticals Profiled in NY Times
You mean another article about vertical search tool? Ubetcha! From my researcher perspective, I’ve been very impressed with what I’ve seen from…
Building The Yahoo Brand Around the World
In the article: Yahoo-Uber Brand, BusinessWeek’s Ben Elgin takes a look at what Yahoo is doing to build their brand outside of…
New Search Features at Fybersearch
Fybersearch, the small but feature filled general purpose web engine that we’ve mentioned several times in the past (it’s the work of…
Displaying your Logo in Snap Search Results
Snap, the relatively new search engine from Idealab, wants to display your logo in search results. Today’s SearchDay article, Enhancing Your Image…
Enhancing Your Image with Snap.com
Logos help build brand awareness, and upstart search engine Snap makes it easy for you to add your corporate image to search…
Winners of Google Code Jam – India Announced
Google held its first Code Jam in India today and the winners have just been announced. The event took place in Bangalore…
Search Forums Roundup: Mar. 25, 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:…
Report from PC Forum Search Panel
The ZDNet “Behind the Lines” blog has a look at a search panel that took place at PC Forum last week. The…
Image Search and Retrieval Research: Recognizing Visual Patterns
Those of you who track what’s going on in search and IR research might be interested in this news release that discusses…
Lawsuit Filed in IAC/Ask Jeeves Acquisition
Are legal issues going to cause problems for the IAC/Ask Jeeves deal? The New York Post reports that an Ask Jeeves shareholder…
New From Gigablast: Related Pages
Since December, Gigablast has been very busy rolling out new services and expanding their index. Today, they’re unveiling links to “Related Pages”…
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