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Yahoo Slurp Adds Wildcard Support For Robots.txt
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that Yahoo’s web crawler, aka Yahoo Slurp, now supports wildcards in the robots.txt file. The two parameters…
Gmail Mobile Client Released
Google just announced the release of a mobile client to manage your gmail account on your mobile device. The new benefits include;…
ClickRiver New Pay Per Click Program from Amazon
Ever wanted to put your ads right on the product page of your competitor’s product at Amazon.com, or wanted your product advertised…
In UK, Google To Surpass Channel 4’s Ad Dollars
The Independent reports that Google UK is expected to earn “£900m from the UK ad market in 2006.” When compared to Channel…
Google To Partner With Clear Channel Communications?
Business Week’s Steve Rosenbush thinks it is a good idea for Google to partner with Clear Channel Communications. The article explains that…
Ask.com Launches Elections Smart Answers
Ask.com launched some new smart answers for the upcoming elections. You can do a search on elections 2006 to see “General Elections…
Yahoo Launches Yahoo Food
What is for breakfast this morning? Well, you can now go to Yahoo Food and find out. Yahoo launched food.yahoo.com that contains…
Google Says Belgium Did Not Send $43.2M Fine
Elinor Mills reports that Google has denied a report last week that it was fined $43 million for not removing all Belgian…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Nov. 2, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the web.
The Interestingness of Social Networks
Interestingness is a great name for a ranking algorithm. It’s what Yahoo’s photo-based social network Flickr uses to show which images the…