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Yahoo Mid-Year Offer to Buy Facebook Rejected
According to Michael Arrington at Techcrunch, Yahoo proposed a $1 billion acquisition of the social network Facebook in mid-2006. According to leaked…
Why is “news” a stop word in Google News?
If you use Google News to search for the term, Google News, you are told “news” is a very common word and…
MySpace passes Yahoo in page views
Check out the post by Liz Gannes on GigoOM entitled, Report: MySpace Passes Yahoo in Page Views. According to comScore data mentioned…
Is click fraud via Google “a fraction of one percent”?
Donna Bogatin has an interesting post on ZDNet entitled, Google and click fraud: As wholesome as milk? While giving Google left-handed praise…
White paper says vertical search will hit $1 billion by 2009
Kate Maddox of B2BOnline reports today on a new white paper by Slack Barshinger and SearchChannel that projects revenue from B2B vertical…
Wordtracker holds contest to find the next Google Guru
A $6,000 contest from Wordtracker.com aims to give anyone the skills they need to become a Google Guru in just five days…
Mamma.com Launches New Video Search Engine
Mamma.com has launched a video search engine in Beta format. In conjunction with the Pixsy Media Search Platform, Mamma.com now offers its…
Google Copies Yahoo’s IE7 Marketing Page
Jeromy Zawodny has found that Google used the existing Yahoo IE7 promo page. Comparative pictures of the two promo pages supports his…
Searching for Reliable Stats
The web abounds with statistics, but you often have to search around to find a government agency or other reliable source to…
Search Results Getting Safer
McAfee’s SiteAdvisor monitors the changes in search results and measures the level of what they call “dangerous” sites in all the major…