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Yahoo News Results as an RSS Feed
Online about about a month ago, officially online today, Yahoo News has added a link on every search news search results page (right column) that allows the searcher…
Keeping Googlers at Google
Lisa Baertlein’s article, Google Challenge: Keeping Wealthy Workers, takes a look at Googler “retention” issues post IPO. Baertlein mentions that more employee…
Google Norway & Kenya Up
Via the Google Blog, the company has opened two new sites for Norway and Kenya. And we learn that Google in Norwegian…
Second MSN Search Tech Preview Online Briefly
A second technology preview of MSN’s new search technology was online briefly for testing today. MSN says that it was run in…
MSN Messenger To Gain Search
The beta for MSN Messenger 7, due out Monday, will add search capabilities to its client. Yahoo Messenger has offered this for…
Comparison Shopping Engines and the Small Retailer
In Comparison Shopping Threatens Smaller Sites, (posted on the WSJ’s StartupJournal site, registration not required), Jeannette Borzo takes a look at comparison…
FindWhat Opens AdRevenue Xpress Contextual Ads Program
FindWhat joins Google in offering self-serve contextual ads for publishers. The system also allows publishers to add sponsored search listings to their…
Microsoft’s “Search Champs”
Next week the MSFT Redmond campus will welcome a group of bloggers, researchers, and others interested in search to a two day…
Ask Google Answers: Is the Googleplex on Fire?
Boy, the folks at Google Answers sure get some oddball questions. Yesterday someone posted a question under the subject google headquarters, flammability…
GoHook Offers Up a Database of PDF Content
We’ve just learned that GoHook is building a database of Adobe Acrobat (PDF) content. GoHook used to provide an archive of completed…
Ask Jeeves UK Cuts Sales Staff
Ask Jeeves cuts back UK direct sales department Search engine Ask Jeeves has cut a number of jobs from its UK sales…
Dipsie Says Online “Soon”
Along with Microsoft at the MIT conference Danny mentioned was Jason Wiener who continues to say that his Dipsie search engine will…
Will Better Search Sabotage The Business Model?
Microsoft search researcher Eric Brill suggests that as search gets better, it will be less a money-maker: Microsoft Researcher Questions Search Engine…
Froogle UK Quietly Launched
Froogle finally moves outside the US and opens a UK edition: Froogle UK. Being based in the UK, I plan to put…
Reducing Information Overkill
Vivisimo has launched Clusty, a meta search engine with an impressive array of tools that helps you quickly find relevant results from…
Internet Filtering and Censorship Around the Globe
Yes, I realize this isn’t exactly search related but with so much recent attention about Google China not crawling certain news sites…
Search Engine Strategies Goes To China
A brief post on Alan Meckler’s blog this afternoon that the Search Engine Strategies “World Tour” will soon be to China. The…
Questions from the Google Labs Aptitude Test
Both G.L. and J.B. point us to this blog post by Adam Rifkin that includes questions from the Google Labs Aptitude Test.…
And Now We’re Bullish About Google
Google’s now selling for well within the initial price range it had for its offering but was forced to lower from after…
Sellling Online? Don’t Overlook Shopping Search Engines
Specialized shopping search engines are rapidly gaining popularity. A recent Forrester survey found that nearly 20% of online users look to shopping…
IBM Releases New Product that Searches Disparate Sources Simultaneously
A couple of items from the enterprise search beat. IBM uncorks Masala special brew Source: Computer Weekly IBM is releasing its DB2…
Challenges in Running a Commercial Search Engine
A presentation (PowerPoint slides) titled, Challenges in Running a Commercial Search Engine (3.5 MB; PDF) might be of interest to some of…
SEMPO Gets New Advisors & Parody Site
SEMPO’s gained three new members for its advisory board: Chris LaSala from Google, Neg Norton from the Yellow Pages Integrated Media Association…
Google News In Beta To Avoid Ad Lawsuits?
Nice article spotted via Dave Winer, Google News: Beta Not Make Money from Wired. The article theorizes that Google has kept the…
New Google Traffic Estimator Tool Up – Got Suggestions?
Google’s added a new Traffic Estimator tool that lets you discover traffic for a term without having to actually add the term…
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