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The Search Industry’s Growing Pains
If you’ve ever seen one of Danny Sullivan’s keynote addresses at a Search Engine Strategies conference, you know he is enlightening, provocative and always raises new issues that…
Is AOL Ready to Launch a Desktop Search App?
The desktop search war continues to heat up. Michael Worthington at Beta News reports that a desktop search app might be added…
Google Will Expand Operations in India
During a vist to India by Sergey Brin and Larry Page the company has announced plans to expand their operations in the…
An Introduction to Exalead
Eric B. lets us know about a new web engine called Exalead. This Paris-based company has been around since 1999 and continues…
Profits Triple at Yahoo!
Yahoo’s profits for the third-quarter tripled versus the same period last year. >From a the Bloomberg story, “Net income rose to $253.3…
SEMPO Gets Forum For Members, Wants More Survey Data
Barry Schwartz reports that SEMPO has opened its own forum area for members, a positive move that should help those within the…
Problems With Searching By Date
InsideGoogle points us to the FirstMonday article: Internet time and the reliability of search engines. >From the article, “A large part of…
Jeremy Zawodny: Yahoo Search Blogvangelist
Jeremy Zawodny is a Yahoo employee who once worked on the search side and now returns to it, as he explains more…
Connecting with Customers through Search Market Research
Want to learn to improve your customers' experience, pinpoint buyers' exact interests and reach prospects at every phase of the buying cycle?…
A Look at Infospace
Pete Barlas at Investors Business Daily, takes a look at Infospace in the article: Search, Mobile Markets Help Internet Firm Bounce Back.…
Client Parameter Makes Google Report Fewer Matches
Using the Firefox Browser? Search for "the" using the built in search box that taps into Google, and you’ll get about half…
No More Recall
I just learned that Recall, the search tool that provided full text search access to about 1/3 of The Wayback Machine database…
Search and Cluster the CIA WMD Report with Clusty
The folks over at Clusty (aka Vivisimo) have just released a search/cluster version of the CIA WMD report that was released on…
Publisher Reactions To Google Print; What About Authors?
New Google Service May Strain Old Ties in Bookselling from the New York Times today has some nice quotes on how publishers…
Web 2.0 Search Wrap-Up
O’Reilly’s put out its official wrap-up of various things discussed that were search-related at its Web 2.0 conference: Search: The Current and…
Where’s The Privacy Freak Out Over Search Personalization?
Alan Chapell raises a good question in his Amazon.com’s A9 Adventure article. Why haven’t privacy advocates freaked out loudly and in large…
Google Demos Word Clustering
Andy Beal has a nice write-up of Google showing off its word clustering tools at the recent Web 2.0 conference: Web 2.0…
Google PageRank Update Underway
If you’re one who obsesses over Google PageRank scores (you shouldn’t, but people do), you’ll be happy to know that the little…
Some Google Print Follow-Ups
In my article on Google Print yesterday, I noted in the version for SEW members that electronic copies of books aren’t being…
myGoogle Search Aims To Refine Google Results
myGoogle Search is NOT from Google, and somehow I suspect the letter asking for a name change will be coming from the…
Contextual Ads: Vital to a Search Marketing Campaign?
Are you bidding on keywords through Overture's Precision Match, Google's AdWords or another pay-for-placement service? If so, you're eligible to participate in…
Google Opens European HQ
Google Blog and this Channel News Asia article: Google sets up shop in tech-oriented Ireland, informs us that Google has just opened…
Search as a Platform: The Panel
Jeremy Zawodny provides an excellent “unofficial transcript” of the “Search as a Platform” panel at the Web 2.0 Conference. The panel consisted…
The Virtual Reference Service
One more plug for libraries today. A reason you might not be able to find what you’re looking for with Google (or…
More Full Text Books
Well, Google Print for books is here. Amazon’s “Search Inside the Book” has been around for a while. It’s worth mentioning that…
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