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Who’s Authorized to Hit ‘Send’?
I’ve wiped myself off another e-mail list. And because the organization offers no RSS feeds, consider us permanently incommunicado. For years I’ve subscribed to…
Mazda’s Google Earth Game
Philipp Lenssen points to Mazda EarthSearch sweepstakes game. You basically download a KML file that runs on Google Earth and follow the steps from…
Napster for the Unsigned, Unsung Heros?
Just spotted a Napster ad pushing their new free service on MySpace, while I was listening to a new demo from Cheeseburger, a fave…
More On Amazon Dumping Google & Missing Paid Listings
Barry noted yesterday that Amazon’s A9 was no longer carrying Google results. More important, this means that Amazon itself no longer carries Google’s search…
News.com Interviews Ask.com’s New CEO, Jim Lanzone
News.com has published an interview with Jim Lanzone, the new CEO of Ask.com. As you know, Jim Lanzone was appointed the CEO spot at…
Sphere Blog Search Launches
TechCrunch has an outstanding review of a new blog search engine that recently launched named Sphere. What stands Sphere apart from the rest, outside…
Beyond Booking Flights & Hotel Rooms
Online travel search does a good job helping you with the major tasks of planning travel—booking flights, hotel rooms, rental cars and so forth.…
Ask.com’s IAC Earnings Fall; Not Due to Ask.com
IAC/InterActiveCorp, the company that owns Ask.com, reported earnings today, which showed earnings for IAC have dropped 32% from the previous year. TheStreet.com reports IAC…
Google to Host Annual Stockholders Meeting May 11th
Google is to host their annual stockholders meeting on May 11, 2006 at 2PM (PST). There will be a live webcast of the event…
Ask.com Launches Physical / Topicgraphical Maps Views
Ask.com’s Gary Price posts about Ask.com rolling out a new topographical views on Ask Maps. The feature is called “physical” and it shows illustrates…
Google Worried About Microsoft’s Browser Advantage? What Advantage?
Google is pushing to have Microsoft's IE7 browser allow users to choose a search provider rather than having MSN be automatically set as the…
Oodle Goes Danny Terrio on Us
I’ve been spending a little time on Washington Post’s new hyper-local classifieds-centric Express site (see recent ClickZ story), and noticed a link to an…
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Shopping Beta
Microsoft announced Friday that they have launched Windows Live Shopping in beta, it only works on Internet Explorer for Windows. It runs on AJAX,…
Yahoo “Unaware” Of Chinese Dissident Case
Friday we reported that Yahoo was cited for helping to jail a Chinese dissident. Today I noticed that Forbes reports Yahoo’s Mary Osako saying,…
Google Testing New User Interface For Web Categories?
Last week we explored Google’s Web categories deeper but now it looks like the user interface for those Web categories may be changing (or…
Microsoft’s IE 7 Serve Unfair Advantage Over Google & Yahoo?
Everyone is pointing to a NY Times article that claims Google is complaining to the Justice Department and the European Commission about Microsoft’s new…
Yahoo Tests Yahoo Buzz Box Within Search Results Page
I reported this morning that Yahoo has been testing adding the Yahoo Buzz box within the search result pages. Conduct a search at Yahoo…
Google Suggest For Google News
Google announced that they have added the Google Suggest feature to Google News. To try Google Suggest for Google News out, visit https://news.google.com/news?complete=1. This…
Alexa & A9 Drop Google for Windows Live Search
Garrett French reports that both Alexa Amazon’s A9 have switched from being powered by Google Search to Microsoft’s Windows Live Search. When did this…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: May 1, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.