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MyCroft Plugin Available for Clusty Blog Search

A very brief note to point out that Clusty’s blog search option that I wrote about a few months ago now has a MyCroft plugin for your Firefox…

By Gary Price · 08 Nov 2005

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Word-of-iPod

iPods owners are significantly more likely to create and spread online consumer-generated media (CGM), and that will likely increase with the incorporation…

By rumo · 28 Oct 2005

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Cheerioke

A new sub-chapter in the marriage of phone to Web. General Mills’ Cheerioke lets you call in a song and then watch…

By rumo · 26 Oct 2005

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Several Social Bookmarking/Tagging/Community Search Services Reviewed

PCMag.com offers a roundup of reviews of several social bookmarking/tagging/community search services in the article: Share and Play Tag on the New…

By Gary Price · 25 Oct 2005

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A Splog Press Review

Danny wrote an in-depth look at the “splog” issue the other day and since then many other articles have been written on…

By Gary Price · 20 Oct 2005

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Tips On Tapping Into RSS For Info

Some very nice tips from Steve Rubel today about how to get more out of RSS feeds. He covers ways to make…

By Danny Sullivan · 19 Oct 2005

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Problems With Splogs & Time-Based Searching

How the wheel turns. Back in the 1990s, portals gave away free home pages and with them came a huge amount of…

By Danny Sullivan · 17 Oct 2005

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Blogger and Google Cache Now Accessible in China

The Infoworld article: Google’s Blogger service now accessible in China, reports that the Blogger service (at least for the time being) is…

By Gary Price · 13 Oct 2005

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Apple’s Message Stays Polished

What promised to be a speed-typing contest has fizzled into wait-and-see. Apple picked a WiFi black hole in which to announce its…

By rumo · 12 Oct 2005

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Some Interesting Stats on RSS Usage

With the major search players finally getting into feed and blog search in a big way, a new study from Yahoo and…

By rumo · 12 Oct 2005

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News.com Gets Top 100 Blog List

News.com has a new Blog 100 list, including a search and media blogs category. There’s no page for that category I can…

By Danny Sullivan · 07 Oct 2005

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Searching for a Good Forum

Forums, discussion groups and other online communities can be great sources of information, but the good ones can be hard to find,…

By rumo · 06 Oct 2005

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Calishain and Her Kebberfegg

Our friend and fellow Web Search University faculty member, Tara Calishain, has release yet another new RSS tool named Kebberfegg (Keyword Based…

By Gary Price · 05 Oct 2005

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Feedster Plans Self-Serve RSS Ad Program

According to a Media Daily News article: Feedster to Release New RSS Ad Product, placing advertising in Feedster RSS feeds will become…

By Gary Price · 30 Sep 2005

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Dynamically Search and Browse RSS News Headlines

Last week I authored a SearchDay article about Surfwax making their dynamic search navigation technology, LookAhead, available to any webmaster to license…

By Gary Price · 27 Sep 2005

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Down the Rabbit Hole with Microsoft

Bloggers (and presumably gamers) are abuzz over a European-targeted Web site to promote Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Site visitors follow a pair of…

By rumo · 27 Sep 2005

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Blog Buzz News: PubSub Improvements Coming, BuzzMetrics Sold

PubSub to Measure Blog Influence by Category from ClickZ says that PubSub is supposed to release a new version of its LinkRanks…

By Danny Sullivan · 26 Sep 2005

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Country-Specific Search Engines & Telephone Directories

Phil Bradley’s updated his Country Based Search Engines page, so if you’re looking for a search engine serving a particular country, it’s…

By Danny Sullivan · 22 Sep 2005

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Feedster CTO Comments on Splogs (Spam Blogs)

Scott Johnson, CTO at Feedster, has written a commentary for Media Post about splogs (spam blogs) and what the industry must do…

By Gary Price · 20 Sep 2005

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More On Memeorandum

Further to my earlier post on the new Memeorandum blog and news service, I heard back from creator Gabe Rivera on whether…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Sep 2005

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New Memeorandum Great Blend Of Top Blog & News Material

New site Memeorandum provides a Google News-like clustering of news stories and blog commentary on various topics. So far, it looks pretty…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Sep 2005

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Scott Rafer Says Goodbye To Feedster

In a blog post titled, Becoming a Feedster Alum, Scott Rafer announces that he has has left his position as the person…

By Gary Price · 12 Sep 2005

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The Wall Street Journal Tackles Blog Search

Last week, Chris published an excellent roundup of weblog/rss search tools in SearchDay. Today, it’s the Wall Street Journals turn to dive…

By Gary Price · 07 Sep 2005

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Japan’s Mitsui Invests in Feedster

A news release sent to SEW Blog alerts us to the fact that Feedster from Japan’s, Mitsui and Co has made an…

By Gary Price · 07 Sep 2005

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Technorati Launches Technorati Blog Finder

Technorati has just launched the Technorati Blog Finder, a beta service, that is supposed to help users find blogs by subject. How…

By Gary Price · 02 Sep 2005

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