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Search Headlines & Links: October 2, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Why IAC’s Pronto Will Succeed: Partnership With Ask
There are many reasons to like Pronto among the many crawler based shopping search engines: – Comprehensiveness (read last week’s press release)…
Need A Costume For Halloween? Try The CostumeZee Costume Search Engine!
This is an entirely commercial operation, but with Halloween looming on the horizon, one that may prove useful. CostumeZee is a search…
Amazon’s A9 Becomes, Well, Sort Of Nothing
Amazon’s A9 saw the loss of its driving force Udi Manber to Google earlier this year. Now two years after its launch,…
Copiepresse Upset Ruling On Google Wasn’t Visible Enough
Last week, Google complied with a Belgian court order and posted the ruling against it in a copyright suit on the home…
The Accent Is On Search
An interesting article in Pandia about an overlooked area of search – Searching Google for words with accents. The bottom line is…
Yahoo Hack Day’s Success & Yahoo Mail API Coming
It sounds like Yahoo’s first open Hack Day was a big success, featuring even a performance by Beck. Yahoo’s Bradley Horowitz has…
Reading Other People’s Gmail Via Bloglines
Using Bloglines to snoop on people’s private Gmail from Martin Belam looks at how he accidentally stumbled upon email feeds that individuals…
Google Buys Birthplace Garage
Google has purchased the garage where the company developed after its initial birth at Stanford University. Actually, they’ve purchased the home of…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Oct. 2, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the web.