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Blogging & Breaking Search News
Today, the news is officially out that Ask Jeeves has purchased Bloglines. Some in the media were told about this over the weekend, under what’s known as an…
MSN Search Fixes Country-Specific Feed Bug
Good news. Earlier I noted how MSN Search’s RSS feeds wouldn’t bring back results from the main/US MSN Search if you were…
Search Marketers are Mostly Unsophisticated, says JupiterResearch
The majority of search marketers are unsophisticated, despite having worked in the field for two or more years, according to a study…
Yahoo!, Google, and AOL Place Bids To Purchase About.com
The New York Times article: About.com, Primedia’s Web Venture, Is for Sale, alerts us to the fact that the About.com property is…
It’s Official: Ask Jeeves Acquires Bloglines
Today, Ask Jeeves is announcing that they’ve acquired Bloglines, a well-known, critically acclaimed, and free web-based RSS aggregation tool for an undisclosed…
Report: Most Search Marketers are Unsophisticated
The majority of search marketers are unsophisticated, despite having worked in the field for two or more years, according to a study…
Google Images Updates, Expands, Enters Main Results
Google has announced its Google Images database now includes 1.1 billion images. In addition, it confirms what some have been seeing before,…
Google Images In OneBox Display Further Supplant Main Results
We’ve had sporadic reports of Google inserting image matches into web results, and Barbara Coll just sent an example for "united states"…
Ask Jeeves To Buy Bloglines?
Postscript, the rumors are confirmed: It’s Official: Ask Jeeves Acquires Bloglines. Various places are reporting that Ask Jeeves is to acquire the…
Lobbying for Your Search Marketing Budget
Total marketing spend is not growing at most companies, and marketers are working hard for every part of their budget. To accommodate…
Google’s Believers vs. Google’s Doubters
The NY Post article: Googley-Eyed, offers a solid roundup of comments from stock market analysts about Google. One group of comments comes…
A Special Super Bowl Sunday Football Logo from MSN Search
It appears that MSN Search is joining many of the other web engines in offering special logos to celebrate holidays and special…
Google is a Loser in a French Court, Again
For the second time in about two weeks were blogging about Google losing a trademark-infrigement case in France. News.com is reporting that…
Time-Warner Owns More than 5 Million Shares of Google
The Reuters article: Broadband boosts Time-Warner profit discusses the media conglmerates latest earnings and also points out that T-W is a major…
Google Satire Times Three
Spotted via John Battelle, Through The Looking Glass Pt. II: The Google Guys is a satirical stream-of-consciousness style look at Larry and…
Feeling Like Google Dance Time
The days of Google Dances, the monthly changes that used to shake up Google’s index, have long gone. But that doesn’t mean…
Google Annual Shareholders Meeting On May 12
The Buygoogle blog has news that even though the Google Investors Relations FAQ doesn’t yet have the date of its annual shareholders…
Deepy Aims For Broadband Searchers
Billed as a search engine for broadband users, Deepy provides access to Gigablast-powered search results along with a "View TextShot" feature that…
Search Forums Roundup: Feb. 4, 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:…
Expect Convera’s New Public Web Engine by Mid 2005
In early December I blogged about Convera, a popular player in enterprise search, planning to launch a publicly available open web engine.…
MSN Search’s RSS Feeds
When I did my write-up on the new MSN Search site, I’d mentioned that RSS feeds of search results were available but…
Disabling Google Ads With Bots?
Botnets strangle Google Adwords campaigns from The Register looks at how bots might be used to generate views of ads on Google…
Google Pitches Blogger On AdSense; Blogger Not Amused
Spotted via Anil Dash, Google’s AdSense spam from Overstated documents how Google’s trying to enlist Blogdex and other popular blog sites to…
SMA-UK Takes Flak Over Lack Of Updates
The honeymoon is over for SMA-UK, as SMA-UK get’s a Kickin’ in the Forums over at Threadwatch notes. The failure to update…
Yahoo Seeks SEM Manager
Nice mention by Barry of Yahoo wanting someone to do search engine marketing for its own properties. It’s not the first search…
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