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What’s New at Shopzilla, Froogle, and MSN Shopping
It’s been a busy year for the major shopping search services. BizRate re-engineered its search engine and changed its name to Shopzilla, among other things. And Google added…
Is Google News (English Version) Being Blocked in China?
Interfax is reporting that the English version of Google’s news service has been inaccessible in China for more than a week. Zhang…
MoreGoogle.com Loses Its Domain Name (and other domain name news)
Three items in this roundup. MoreGoogle, the tool that “enhances” Google results (see SearchDay’s: Visualizing Google Search Results), has lost its domain…
Shopping Search Week 2004!
Shopping has emerged as one of the most important vertical categories in the specialized search arena, for searchers, advertisers and merchants alike.…
An Interview with Chris Sherman
SearchDay’s very own (and our friend), Chris Sherman, is interviewed in the Rocky Moutain News article: Ever-widening search. Chris offers up a…
Foot Measurements and a Keyword Lawsuit?
In: Brannock files keyword lawsuit, you’ll read about a keyword advertising lawsuit filed by Brannock Device Co (the device you use to…
Snap.Com Profiled
The Pasadena Star-News offers has published a profile of Idealab’s Snap.com. [Snap.com] replaces the traditional “pay-per- click’ search model, in which an…
New Web Search Engine From Australia Coming Next Week
ITWorld.com is reporting that Australia-based Ansearch will officially launch MySearch.com.au, next week. The article includes a bit of detail on MySearch.com.au plans…
And More Insider Sales at Google
The AP reports that three more Google “insiders” sold shares on earlier this week Those selling stock on Monday: + George Reyes,…
On Web Directories
ResearchBuzz (aka Tara Calishain) writes about how Yahoo has downplayed their human built directory of web sites in the past few years.…
Google Desktop Download Stats
Searchblog has some early Google Desktop download numbers via Majestic Research. According to their research, about 1.3 million unique users visited Google’s…
Mamma Has Plans to Acquire Copernic
Mamma.com, the Montreal-based metasearch engine has signed a letter-of-intent to acquire Copernic. Copernic, also a Canadian company, offers several desktop and enterprise…
Jeeves Floats Over NYC
A “revamped” Ask Jeeves balloon (remember, he lost some weight and got a makeover earlier this year) floated over the streets of…
Ask Jeeves UK Offers New Features
According to Revolution magazine, Jeeves UK is now offering four search features/tools that, until today, were only available on the U.S. site.…
Shopping Search Services for Advertisers and Merchants
The major shopping search engines typically crawl your site for free, but most offer merchant and advertiser programs that give you more…
Rating Search Engine Disclosure Practices
Which search engines are adequately disclosing their paid placement and paid inclusion practices? Which ones are failing to do so? A new…
Short Review Of Shopping Search Engines
From the San Jose Mercury News, Sites tell where to shop on the Web is a nice, short review of shopping search…
More On SEMPO Board Elections Process
I posted earlier that SEMPO has opened nominations to elect a new board of directors. Here’s some additional information about the process.…
Extend Google Desktop With gdSuite
Want to limit your Google Desktop searches in various ways, such as by date or within certain folders? gdSuite is a new…
More Insider Sales at Google
Plenty of press attention (and an SEW Blog post) last weekend about Brin, Page, Schmidt, and others selling some shares. We just…
A Positive Look at the Butler
The USA Today’s Jefferson Graham with a positive look at Ask Jeeves in the article: In search, the butler did it. Jeeves…
Off To New York To See Yahoo Shopping’s Giant Snow Globe
I’m heading to New York on Wednesday to finally see the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in person. Those in the US know…
Search Engine Disclosure: Better, but Still Wanting
How forthcoming are search engines in disclosing their paid placement and paid inclusion policies? They're better than they were a couple of…
A Conversation with Google’s Georges Harik
Georges Harik, Director of Googlettes (new products) at Google, chats with the Web Talk Radio Guys about Gmail. You can read an…
My Yahoo Upgrade Leaves Beta
Matt Hicks at eWeek reports that the My Yahoo beta that’s been around for about two months has gone live. Since launching…
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