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Yahoo To Restrict SEM & Agency API Access?
Is Yahoo going to withdraw API access to SEM firms, agencies and other third-party companies that manage online ad spend? So hears Frank Watson, AKA Search Engine Watch…
Kanoodle Ads Coming to Some RocketNews RSS Feeds
Via a news release we’ve learned that Rocketinfo, the providers of the RocketNews search engine, an impressive news and weblog search tool…
Link to Froogle Now Visible on Google UK Home Page
Those of you who track each and every Google move might be interested to know that the Google UK home page now…
Ads On Ask & Could Paid Listings Take Prime Position?
In The Search Interface Of The Future from MediaPost, David Berkowitz looks at future history, envisioning a move where Ask Jeeves puts…
1GB: Yahoo Mail Users Getting Storage Space Increase
The AP is reporting that users of Yahoo’s free email service will soon (by mid-April) have 1 gigabyte of storage space available…
Yahoo Desktop Search Adds New Search Options
Some desktop search news to let you know about. Word that Yahoo has just added a couple of new search options to…
Three Newspaper Publishers Acquire 75% of Topix.net
Congrats to Rich Skrenta and his Topix.net team. Today, the company is announcing that a group of three newspaper publishers (Tribune, Knight-Ridder,…
Scirus Adds 13 Million Patents to Database
Scirus, Elsevier’s science-specific web database that offers access to content from a targeted crawl of the open web along with material from…
Copyright Questions On Google Digitization Project
Harvard-Google Project Faces Copyright Woes from the Harvard Crimson looks at copyright issues being raised about Google’s plans to digitize thousands of…
Google News Says Au Revoir to Agence France Press Content
Less than a week after Agence France Press (AFP) filed a lawsuit against Google alleging copyright infringement of its content by Google,…
NetRatings Search Popularity & Loyalty Figures
A look at new search popularity and loyalty figures from NetRatings for January 2005.
Jan. 2005 Nielsen NetRatings Search Engine Ratings
Nielsen NetRatings statistics for search engines in Jan. 2005.
Just the Facts, Please
While the major search engines continue to dabble with shortcuts to reference sources, Wikipedia and Answers.com have quietly evolved into two of…
Full Text Court Filings: Agence France Press v. Google
Last Friday, news broke of Agence France Press filing suit against Google in U.S.District Court alleging copyright infringement. Here’s the SEW Blog…
Should Google Fear France?
I was just thinking about a possible April Fool’s headline, "Google’s Brin Arrested By French For Cultural War Crimes" after reading the…
Yahoo Media Group Hiring
We’ve written of Yahoo’s new Yahoo Media Group before. From News.com, Yahoo’s SoCal plans take shape, some brief details of openings for…
FindArticles Redesigns, Adds Sort & Search Options
FindArticles has always been a great resource for locating periodical content that might not be available on the web in general. Now…
IAC-Ask Jeeves 2005 Vs. IAC-Lycos 1999 & The Need For Being Inclusive
I just listed to the investor webcast about the proposed InterActiveCorp-Ask Jeeves deal. My first thought was how familiar it sounded to…
MSN Shopping Beta Tests New Version
MSN Tests Shopping Search Engine from MediaPost has some details about a new comparison shopping service that MSN is testing, the MSN…
Official: IAC/InterActive Corp To Acquires Ask Jeeves
The story is now crossing the wires that it’s official, IAC/InterActive Corp will acquire Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion in stock. An…
AOL Launches Pinpoint Travel
AOL's new Pinpoint Travel is an ambitious effort to provide truly comprehensive travel search that consumers can trust to provide the best…
5th Annual Search Engine Watch Awards – Nomination Form
Nomination form for the 5th Annual Search Engine Watch Awards.
WSJ: IAC/InterActiveCorp Close to Acquiring Ask Jeeves
Note: see updated post, Official: IAC/InterActive Corp To Acquires Ask Jeeves. According to a just published article in the Wall Street Journal,…
Yahoo Acquires Flickr
Well the rumors that have been circulating for weeks are true, Yahoo is acquiring the web-based photo sharing site, Flickr. A post…
Agence France Presse Sues Google over News Content
Yes, it’s another lawsuit that the Google’s lawyers will need to handle. This one was filed by Agence France Press (AFP) (a…
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