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Happy 10th Birthday To Dogpile
Today, metasearch tool Dogpile begins celebrating its 10th birthday. Congrats! Here’s the Dogpile home page from December of 1996 and a USENET announcement from its original developer, Aaron…
New Year To-Do: Change that Boilerplate
A good tip from Steve Outing at Poynter: don’t forget to update your site! Most Web sites have copyright and other boilerplate…
The Googleshank Redemption Reloaded
Remember me writing about the Googleshank Redemption? If not, it was the story of site owner Allan Dick feeling powerless to get…
Spam Free or Die
Eventurally, spam would have to turn into a music video, right? Herewith, Javier Prato’s SpamFreeorDie.
WebmasterWorld Back Among The Spiderable
WebmasterWorld, which banned Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves and other search spiders last month, is now allowing them back in and thus…
What’s A Scraper Site
It’s easy to assume that everyone knows what a scraper site is. Everyone doesn’t — or at least, they know what a…
RSS Newsletters? Not So Fast…
This morning Steve Rubel points to a new service, Mailfeed.org, that purports to easily convert e-mail newsletters into RSS feeds. Steve, a…
Answers.com’s New “Find As You Type” Feature
We see to be talking about UI tests at Google all of the time but how about a test from Answers.com? From…
DMA’s $5 Do-Not-Mail List
This has enraged me for years: the DMA charges consumers $5.00 to register online for its little-publicized do-not-snail-mail list (MPS). Mailing your…
TRUSTe Trusts Yesmail
TRUSTe just named e-mail service provider Yesmail as the first company authorized to resell TRUSTe’s Web privacy seals. Yesmail can now review…
Google Firefox Extensions For Anti-Phishing & Popping-Up Google Blog Search Results
New Firefox extensions over at Google highlights that there’s a new anti-phishing tool now out for Firefox users plus a new add-on…
Have You Been Googleshanked?
I had dinner with Allan Dick of Vintage Tub & Bath last week at SES Chicago. Allan’s a great guy, an attendee…
Why Don’t Half of E-mail Marketers Authenticate?
Nothing like myth-busting. Today, Skylist published the top eight reasons half of e-mail marketers give for not authenticating their messages. If you’re…
Yahoo’s Jeremy Zawodny Caught In Link Selling Debate
Google Fights Paid Links & Yahoo Defends Paid Links from Barry over at Search Engine Roundtable does a great job of recapping…
Burn the Spam!
I love how Yahoo!’s beta e-mail interface denotes spam. The icon shows a mail message aflame. Meanwhile “delete” is symbolized by a…
Chitika faces criticism from publishers
Chitika, a new contextual ad network that launched in May, has come under fire from publishers in its network — mostly bloggers…
Writely Adds New Convert to PDF Feature and Another Free PDF Conversion Tool Called DocMorph
It was about 36 hours ago that I pointed to a ResourceShelf overview of Writely, a wonderful and free web-based word proccessor…
Web Search History: Before Google Answers and Yahoo Answers There Was “Answer Point” From Ask Jeeves
How about some web search industry history? Long before two major search engines, Google and Yahoo offered Google Answers and Yahoo Answers,…
Jux2 Returns!
Jux2 the metasearch/comparative search engine that won our Best Meta Search Engine site in the 5th Annual Search Engine Awards, is back…
Google Releases New Version of Sitemap Generator Tool
A new version (v1.4) of the Google Sitemap Generator Tool is now available according to Vanessa Fox from Google Engineering. She writes:…
E-Mail Consolidation Continues
E-mail service provider Quris, which was majority-owned by Charles Schwab Corp. (little did I know), has a new owner today. The company…
Other Q&A Services, Most Available For Free!
The new Yahoo Answers joins a long list of other answer-providing services. Here’s a recap of some prominent services that offer online…
The New York Public Library and Answers.com Announce New Homework Service
Lots of news coming from Answers.com in the past 24 hrs. First, the acquisition of Brainboost and this morning, word that Answers.com…
Answers.com Buys “Answer Extraction” Engine Brainboost for $4 Million in Cash and Some Shares of Restricted Stock
Word from Answers.com that they’ve acquired an “answer extraction” database that utilizes NLP (natural language processing), Brainboost.com for $4 million in cash…
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Interviewed on NPR
One of the most popular topics in the mainstream press the few days has been the Wikipedia. What it is, how it…
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