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Daily SearchCast, June 8, 2006: Yahoo Answers Grows And Grows; Google Sued Over Ad It Refuses To Run; Google Urges Users To Rally For Net Neutrality & More!
Today’s search podcast covers the growth of Yahoo Answers; alternative ways to be listed in Google and Yahoo; Google sued over ads…
New Search Patents: June 8, 2006 – Stanford updates Pagerank Patent
The patent for pagerank has been updated, Hewlett-Packard introduces advanced searching options for searchers, IBM patents a query translation server to help…
Yahoo Answers Coming After Wikipedia’s Crown?
Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers! from me in SearchDay today looks at new stats that fuel the notion that Yahoo…
Yahoo Photos Upgraded, Beta Available
TechCrunch has a good writeup on the new Yahoo Photos beta. To access the beta go to https://photos.yahoo.com/ and after you sign…
Alternative Ways Into Google & Yahoo
Search Engine Guide has an article named Alternative Ways to Get Into Google and About.com has an article named 8 Ways to…
Google Browser Sync For Firefox
Google announced a new Firefox plugin named Google Browser Sync. The Firefox extension allows you to “synchronizes your browser settings including…
Lawsuit Over Killed Anti-China Ad On Google
Google Sued for Allegedly Refusing Anti-China Ad at Wired News covers a lawsuit filed against Google after it refused to carry ads…
Google Calls On Users To Lobby For Net Neutrality
Google cofounder Sergey Brin might not have been able to lobby all the US senators he wanted earlier this week to stop…
IceRocket Sale To Think Is Off (Update: Discussions Still Going)
That deal for Think Partnership to purchase blog search engine IceRocket? Andy Beal notes that it’s off. Postscript: Think has second thoughts…
Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers!
New stats add fuel to the idea that Yahoo Answers is perhaps becoming a social interacting phenomenon like YouTube or MySpace. A…