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Microsoft: Back To The “Early Days Of Search” Songbook
Microsoft’s Ballmer boasts of search engine progress from the Associated Press gives us an update from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, out of this week’s…
Advertisers To Get Notices From Google In Click Fraud Settlement Later This Month
Google Proposes $90M Settlement from the Associated Press is a general update on the status of the proposed click fraud settlement with Google. It…
Windows Live QnA Beta – Microsoft’s Answer To Google & Yahoo Answers
ResourceShelf reports on a new invite only beta service by Microsoft named Windows Live QnA. The program is similar to Google Answers and Yahoo…
Is Yahoo Testing New PPC Ad Ranking Algorithm?
I reported more evidence of Yahoo Search Marketing testing a new PPC ad ranking algorithm to include a click through rate element. I’ll be…
Google Reader Added To Google Personalized Home Page
The Google Reader Blog announced the addition of a module to allow you to add the Google Reader, Google’s RSS feed reader, to the…
Microsoft’s Windows Live Local Launches CelebFavorites.com
Microsoft announced the launch of CelebFavorites.com, a site that uses Windows Live Local maps to plot eight famous American stars. Each of the participating…
Google Sued For Allegedly Profiting On Child Porn
The LA Times & ABC News reports that Google is being sued by Nassau County Legislator, Jeffrey Toback (in Long Island, New York) for…
Coffee Break
Advergame developer Blockdot created “Office Invaders,” a “Space Invaders”-like game, for Baskin Robbins. The game uses caffeine-laden drinks and the classic pink spoon of…
Microsoft’s Short Hand Search “Wild Thing” & IM Link Sharing “Nocturnal”
TMCnet.com has an interesting article explaining two new projects Microsoft is working on in relation to MSN Search. The first is something named “Wild…
Search Headlines & Links: May 4, 2006
Today marks a new feature from the Search Engine Watch Blog, a daily recap of our top blogged stories along with other items we’ve…
Daily SearchCast, May 4, 2006: Microsoft adCenter Goes Public; Google Health On The Way? Yahoo’s TrustRank Patent; BMW Mixes Google Into Motorcycle Ad & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Microsoft adCenter going live for everyone; Google Health looking likely to come next week; is Google out of index space?;…
Why I’ve Never Been To A Class Reunion
I’ve never been to a class reunion. From the looks of things, I’m never going to go to one, either. A former classmate e-mailed…
Searching for Quality RSS Feeds
RSS feeds offer a great way to pull relevant content from blogs, news sites and many other sources, but good ones can be difficult…
Dr. Peter Jacso Gives Windows Live Academic Search a Thumbs Down
Gary Price points to a review of Windows Live Academic by “legendary reviewer” Dr. Peter Jacso. The bottom line of the review is that…
Google Results Suffering After “Big Daddy” Update?
The Register reports that Google is “choking on web spam” ever since the roll out of The Big Daddy Infrastructure. The article highlights a…
Ask.com France Launches French Blog
Ask.com has launched a French counter part to its English blog, at https://www.blog-ask.com/. Honestly, I cannot understand what the first blog post says, but…
BMW Sort Of Hits Back At Google In Ad
BMW Ad With Google over at Google Blogoscoped gives me a chuckle for a variety of reasons. It shows an ad from BMW saying…
In Yahoo We Trust – The Link Spam Patent Application
A new Yahoo patent application published today builds upon a method for finding reputable pages on the web to reduce web spam when ranking…
MSN adCenter Officially Launches & Changes Name to Microsoft adCenter
While MSN adCenter has been in pilot mode since mid-October, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is announcing the official launch of adCenter at Thursday’s MSN…
Do You Kebberfegg?
RSS feeds offer a great way to pull in interesting, relevant information—but finding good feeds can be a challenge. A goofy-sounding tool called Kebberfegg…