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Friendster’s Director of Net Ops Joins Feedster
Nick Heyman, formerly Director of Network Operations for Friendster, is joining Feedster. He’ll be doing the same type of work for the RSS search engine. More on Scott…
Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 17, 2004
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…
Reports from SES: Day 4
Barry Schwartz (aka Rustybrick) needs to be commended one more time for the excellent coverage of SES Chicago 2004 he has provided…
Yahoo and Verity Announce Partnership
Some news that spans the enterprise and web search worlds. It’s also another example of the increasing importance of federated search tools.…
Yahoo! About Ready to Open Development Centre in India
ExpressIndia lets us know that Yahoo will open a development centre in Chennai, India on December 24th.
Froogle Adds Third-Party Product Reviews
According to this News.com article, Froogle has added product reviews. In a move to make its site a one-stop online shopping service,…
Monetization of RSS
Internetnews.com’s Susan Kuchinskas article: Paying for the Publishing Revolution, reports on the “Web Feeds, Blogs & Search” session at SES in Chicago.…
A Few Articles for Your “Search” Reading List
Here are three search-related articles that some of you might want to take a look at. IEEE is making them available for…
MSN Desktop Search Questions
msnsearch’s WebLog answers a few questions about the MSN Desktop Search including why results aren’t viewable in Mozilla/Firefox. The post ends with…
Reports from SES: Day Three
Day 3 of Search Engine Strategies is in the book and once again Barry Schwartz was busy taking notes and preparing summaries.…
New From Yahoo!: Traffic Reports
Media Post has a news brief about Yahoo Local! making real-time traffic reports available for about 70 U.S. metropolitan areas. The real-time…
Ask Jeeves Launches Desktop Search
Ask Jeeves has launched a beta desktop search application, capping off a very busy year in the desktop search space.
Yahoo Launches Video Search Prototype, New Media RSS Format
Yahoo! has just unveiled a video search beta available via a link on its Yahoo! Next site. The company is also introducing…
Ask Jeeves Desktop Search Now Available
We knew it was coming and here it is: Ask Jeeves Desktop Search. I haven’t had a chance to download the app…
Coursey: Is Google Forgetting Its Task?
David Coursey isn’t happy with the results he’s been getting at Google and would like the company to spend less time adding…
Google Victorious in Trademark Lawsuit with Geico
Google has won the trademark lawsuit with Geico. From AP: “There is no evidence that that activity alone causes confusion, ” Brinkema…
Reports from SES: Day Two
Barry Schwartz (aka Rustybrick) continues offering highlights from various of SES sessions. Kudos Barry, keep up the good work. Here are links…
Most Popular Search Terms 2004: Lycos
Another year-end list of popular search terms is out. Today, Lycos shares its 2004 “Web Most Wanted” list.
Trends in Search Engine Marketing
We know that Google and Overture are making bucket-loads of money from selling paid listings, but how much money is being spent…
State of the Search Marketing Industry 2004
Jupiter Research and SEMPO (the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) have released results of separate surveys providing one of the most detailed…
More on Google vs. Microsoft
Almost immediately after finishing my post below about the new Technology Review article that focus on Google vs. Microsoft, I came across…
Google Gets Another Magazine Cover
The new issue of Technology Review is out and guess who’s on the cover? Yes, it’s Google. Two covers in less than…
Sullivan Speaks at SES
In: Search Industry Gains Clout, Susan Kuchinskas reports on Danny’s keynote address at SES. One big change in 2004 was the drop…
E-Books Update
In the SearchDay article about Google working with libraries, I mentioned Project Gutenberg. This service has been offering eBooks since 1971. Its…
Google Announces Plan to Digitize Millions of Books
This morning Google is announcing a new program to digitize millions of library books (full text) from five large research libraries (Stanford,…
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