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Bringo Click To Call Service Attempts To Help Consumers Foil Voice Response Systems
If you’re a credit card issuer, a cell phone carrier or an airline you use IVR (interactive voice response) phone trees to resolve calls…
Google To Fingerprint Voices With PC Microphones
This weekend The Register published an article named Google developing eavesdropping software. The article describes how Google uses existing PC microphones fingerprinting technology to…
Yahoo Answers Launches In The UK
The Guardian Unlimited reports that Yahoo, today, launched the Yahoo Answers product in the UK. The UK version is now available at https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ and…
YouTube Hires Yahoo’s Treasurer, Gideon Yu
TheStreet.com reports on a Wall Street Journal story that YouTube has hired away Yahoo’s Treasurer, Gideon Yu. Gideon Yu is to begin working at…
Google Says They Will Give Brazil Orkut Data
The Washington Post reports that Google will give over the Orkut data of specific users including; IP addresses with time and date stamps that…
New Engine ‘ChaCha’ Offers Real-Time Answers From Live ‘Guides’
Part Wikipedia, part Yahoo Answers and part About.com, ChaCha is a new search engine with a compelling hook – real-time results from human beings.…
Search Headlines & Links: September 1, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately: From…
Google Images Labeler: Google’s Challenge To Flickr?
Google Blogoscoped spotted the Google Image Labeler game, designed to help Google improve its image search results through tagging. It feels like a catch-up…
Search Engine Roundtable Starts Podcast: The Search Pulse
This is a self-promotional post but I wanted to let you know that I will be launching a new search podcast named The Search…
Google Modifies Navigational Search Results
I reported this morning that Google has changed the way they handle navigational like searches. For example, if you do a search on a…
Google Has 15 Days To Provide Data To Brazil Or Be Fined $23,000 Per Day
AFP reports that Brazil has given Google Brazil 15 days to turn over the data on the Orkut users they have been asking for.…
Yahoo Tests Enhanced Yahoo Answers Integration In Search Results
Threadwatch discovered Yahoo testing a new way of displaying Yahoo Answer results within the Yahoo Search results interface. The new interface is larger and…
How Google Handles Accented Characters
Last night WebmasterRadio.FM aired a show with Vanessa Fox and Matt Cutts of Google, they talked about so many good things including how Google…
Search Headlines & Links: August 31, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately: From…
Flickr #1 Photography Site In UK
Hitwise is reporting that Flickr is the #1 photography site in the UK. This isn’t really a surprise at all – what’s more suprising…
When Good Search Bots go Bad
Most people realize the importance of creating a search engine friendly site, but many don’t take the final step of assuring that search engine…
Topix’s Cool Year-Long News Archive
Somewhat lost among all the search news earlier this month was Topix and its launch of an awesome year-long news archive. It’s a great…
Ask.com Adds Emoticons Or Smiley To Smart Answers
The Ask.com Blog posted that they have added a new Smart Answer to their suitcase, it is called an emoticon or smiley. You know…
Google Uses AdWords Conversion Data To Fight AdSense Fraud?
ShoeMoney blogged that at the Arbitrage Issues session at SES San Jose, during Q&A time, Kim Malone of Google said that the AdSense team…
Search Engines Handle No Index Inconsistently
Matt Cutts has a nice illustrated survey of how various major search engines deal with the meta noindex tag in Handling noindex meta tags.…