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Microsoft Employees Use Google More Than MSN?
Philipp Lenssen reported on a Andrew Hitchcock post that detailed search engine usage by search engine firm. It appears that Microsoft employees prefer Google…
Don’t Vote For Us As Best Search Marketing Blog At MarketingSherpa!
That’s right. We don’t want your vote in the "Blogs On Search Marketing" or "Best Podcast" categories of MarketingSherpa’s awards, happening right now. We…
InfoSpace Rebrands, Upgrades Local Search Site
InfoSpace, which also owns and operates the Dogpile metasearch engine, has cleaned up its interface and yesterday rebranded its local search engine as “Infospacefindit.”…
Mashups and Other Fun with Flickr
A big part of the appeal of Flickr, Yahoo’s photo sharing service, is its ease of use. It’s not only easy to upload and…
Hacking Flickr
You can do a lot more with Yahoo's popular photo sharing site Flickr than simply upload your own photos and browse images created by…
The Search Engine Update – Number 223 – June 21, 2006
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the first half of June 2006.
Zillow Announces ‘Zillow Labs’
Everybody’s going “Web2.0.” Real estate vertical search engine and valuation site Zillow.com has launched Zillow Labs, “a sandbox where developers and others can try…
Ask a Ninja’s Got Audience
According to Mark McCrey, founder and CEO of Podtrac.com, Ask A Ninja is the top podcast and has over 250 million unique viewers that…
Google CEO Eric Schmidt In Featured Session At SES San Jose 2006
I’m very pleased to announce that Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt will be in a featured session at our upcoming Search Engine Strategies San Jose…
Search Headlines & Links: June 20, 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…
Daily SearchCast, June 20, 2006: Google’s Got Spam! – Everyone’s Got Spam! – Spam Spam Spam!; Oh Where Or Where Has My Google Answers Question Gone; Ask Helps Treasure Hunters & More!
Today’s search podcast covers concerns that Google is letting too much spam through; concerns that all the search engines could do better; Google pulling…
Craigslist Adds Cities, Now 300 Strong
According to an article in the Wall Street Journal (sub. req’d) over the weekend and a Monday posting on PaidContent, iconic local community and…
It’s Not Just Google With Disappointing Results
We have been poking hard at Google for disappointing search results, but Google is not the only search engine that has been disappointing me…
Microsoft, Google & Others Call For Unified Federal Privacy Protection
Microsoft bravely took part in the search privacy panel we did at our SES New York show earlier this year (coverage here and here),…
Canada’s YellowPages.ca Launches New Local Search Site
Since this is Local Search Day at Search Engine Watch, here’s some additional news. Canada’s yellow pages publisher, Yellow Pages Group, which also operates…
A Web of Local Search Services
The major search engines tend to capture the lion’s share of press, but there are dozens of other players in the local search space,…
Google Pulls Question About Google From Google Answers
Peter Da Vanzo reports on an individual who posted a question on Google Answers that was removed by Google. The question was, “What percentage…
Google Sub Sub Domain Issues Clearly Visible
Threadwatch reveals some more examples of issues Google is having. They note a search on queer forum returns CraigsList 97 times out of the…
Who’s Who in Local Search
Although the major services get most attention, there are dozens of players in the local search space and lots of opportunities for search marketers…
New Search Patent Applications: June 19, 2006 – Autolinking, and Better Advertising through Deletion Predictions
Four patent applications from Google describe fighting spam in emails, providing product review searches, moving large amounts of data, and autolinking. Yahoo matches, and…