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More On Mixing Contextual & Search Spending
Niki Scevak saw my Google’s Revenue Is Not All Search-Derived post yesterday decrying the mixture of contextual and search revenues and points out that Jupiter Research’s own paid…
Google Responds to China News Censorship Story
Last week we linked to a New Scientist report about Google omitting some controversial “sources” in their Google News China crawl. In…
New Yahoo A-Z Index Page
Along with the new My Yahoo beta release and the tweaks to the Yahoo home page that we’ve mentioned today, the company…
Commenting About Posts
Want to comment on something in our blog? Our Search Engine Watch Forums are where we invite you to remark on any…
Yahoo, How About A Feed Search Tab?
I’ve only begun to play with the new My Yahoo Beta that Gary blogged about earlier. I was excited that it was…
Google’s Revenue Is Not All Search-Derived (AKA Gmail Isn’t Search)
So Gmail ads might be bigger than search ads for Google, we learn in this New York Post story: You Got Mail…
Search Marketing in Europe
Search marketing is increasingly global, but a local focus is still vital to achieve your goals. What does it take to have…
My Yahoo Beta Launches, Cosmetic Changes to Yahoo Home Page
Reuters and the AP with on some cosmetic changes coming to the Yahoo and My Yahoo home page. According to Reuters the…
Moo! A Bovine That Monitors Amazon.com
A new service (it’s free!) called Watchcow.net monitors the Amazon.com database looking for changes in the price of ANY product (new and/or…
Got To Censor Search Listings? Why Not Disclose?
Earlier coverage of Google omitting some China news sources included Google’s explanation that this was done to improve the quality of the…
Fixing Firefox & Movable Type Entries With No File Extensions
A few of you using the Firefox browser let us know right away that our permalinks weren’t working right after the Search…
Berners-Lee on The Semantic Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is interviewed in the new issue of Technology Review. The interview focuses on the latest developments with the Semantic…
Postscript On Google News & Bias
Last week, JD Lasica wrote about a possible bias with Google News, as Gary recapped here: Does Google News Have A Conservative…
Is Google News Biased?
Google News tends to favor news stories with a conservative bias, according to new media observer J.D. Lasica, a claim which Google…
Small General-Purpose Web Engines
The developers of small general-purpose web engines continue to impress with their innovative spirit. It’s a good idea to keep an eye…
Yahoo’s Advanced Syntax
Greg Notess reports that several of the “old” Inktomi advanced search prefixes(originurlextension:, stem:, domain:, and others) work at Yahoo.
Google Images and Alt Text Tags
Google Images and Alt Text Tags: Maximizing Visibility and Accessibility Google Images is one of the most widely used image search platforms…
Sergey, Larry, David and Jerry – Forbes Says Rich!
The Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans was just released and for the first time Sergey Brin and Larry Page have…
Does Google News Have A Conservative Bias?
JD Lasica takes a look political coverage at Google News and Yahoo News in Balancing Act: How News Portals Serve Up Political…
Fagoogle Closed
Andy’s blogged that Fagoogle, that we wrote about yesterday, has closed in response to an apparent cease-and-desist letter. Fagoogle itself writes that…
Searching Google Print
Google Print opened at the end of last year, allowing you ability to find content from books and magazines that have been…
LookSmart Buys Furl Web Clipping Service
Today’s SearchDay has details of LookSmart’s purchase of Furl, which lets you save the full text of web pages and collect them…
Looksmart Acquires Furl.net
Looksmart has thrown its hat into the 'personal web' ring, with the acquisition of Furl.net, a web page clipping and archiving service.
Interview with Search Engine Researcher
A very interesting interview in the latest issue of ACM’s Ubiquity magazine with Ramesh Jain a professor at Georgia Tech, He is…
Australia’s Sensis Files for Patents
Sensis patents search engine Source: Australia IT >From the article, “TELSTRA’S highly profitable directories business, Sensis, has lodged global patents for part…
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