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Searching for Digital Books
Here are a three specialized databases that do a good job providing info about and/or access to thousands of digitized books and texts. + Digital Book Index This…
AOL Europe and Google Expand Deal
AOL Europe and Google have announced a multi-year agreement that will bring Google AdWords paid search listings to AOL’s European properties in…
Search Marketing Off the Beaten Track
Opportunities for effective, inexpensive search marketing are abundant when you and 'think outside the (Big Search) box' and look to vertical or…
LookSmart Names New CEO
David Hills has just been named CEO of LookSmart. He will succeed Damian Smith, who has served as interim CEO since January…
Google’s Q3 Earnings Coming Thursday
Google will release their Q3 2004 earnings this Thursday at 4pm ET/1pm PT. The announcement will be webcast at https://investor.google.com/webcast. Many analysts…
Ask Jeeves Launches New Sales Division
Ask Jeeves let’s us know about the launch of AJinteractive, a new U.S. advertising products and sales division that integrates the AJ…
Brin on Personal Search and SEO
Sergey Brin let’s us know that Google is working on a personal search application similar to My Jeeves and My Yahoo Search.…
Blog Glitches & I’m Away
Apologies for the come-and-gone testing posts, if you saw them. More apologies for the fact that all posts before this one now…
A Conversation with Matthew Koll
Gary Price checks in with web search pioneer Matthew Koll, who shares his thoughts on the current and future state of the…
The Search Engine Update – Number 183 – October 18, 2004
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan recap of top search engine stories from early October 2004.
New Look at Search.Yahoo.Com
The sleek and clutter-free interface that I normally use to access Yahoo! has a new look. The colored tabs offering acccess located…
New “Answer Engine” Coming: Stochasto
Pandia has published an article about Stochasto, a new “natural language” engine from Norway that is set to launch in early 2005.…
More Google Desktop Privacy Worries & A Microsofty’s Fear
Another Google Desktop security issue to consider. I was forwarded a note of shock about someone who used Google Desktop and found…
Executive Director Compensation Ends For SEMPO President
Want to know what SEMPO’s board of directors discusses? A new area has just opened up on the site, with official minutes…
Link Building Articles
Compilation of articles on from Search Engine Watch and across the web on how search engines use links to influence search results…
Google Desktop Search Becomes Reality
A rumored Google tool to search your computer’s desktop became a reality today, a free download available from the new Google Desktop…
GuruNet: Another Search Related IPO
GuruNet, the useful “answer engine” and search utility began trading on the AMEX yesterday. Details in this story from Israel’s Haaretz.com: GuruNet…
Job Recruiters & Searching Your Shadow Resume
Recruiters Use Google To Screen Job Applicants from the Wall Street Journal looks at how web searching could hurt the chances of…
Roll Your Own Yahoo Specialty Search Engine
Nice from Tara Calishain: Searchroller For Yahoo. Want to make a subject-specific search engine that brings back results from only certain web…
Google Desktop Search Launched
Google has released a new Google Desktop Search tool today that allows people to scan their computers for information in the same…
A Closer Look At Privacy & Desktop Search
A new era of desktop search is being ushered in. With it comes some new issues about search privacy. If you've protected…
Google Wants to Enhance Your Browsing Experience
Sergey Brin makes a couple of comments about Google and web browsers. “There has been much speculation. But our work is focussed…
A Yahoo Research Labs Workshop
Those of you interested in personalization issues might want to take a look at a couple of interesting presentations (PowerPoint slides) from…
Recall Update
I mentioned on Monday that Recall, the datbase offering keyword access to a portion of The Wayback Machine, is no longer online.…
Baidu Set to Double Revenue in 2004
According to this Reuters article, Chinese search company Baidu will see their revenues double in 2004. Google holds a minority stake in…
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