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Branded Searches Lead To Non Company Site 15% Off The Time
ClickZ reports on a Hitwise study that shows that 15% of branded searches lead to competitor’s sites, comparison shopping engines and affiliates as opposed…
Finding Public Radio Podcasts
Gary Price reports on Public Radio Fan’s podcast directory with over 650 currently active podcasts from public radio stations around the world. You can…
Google Travel Coming Soon?
Russell Shaw feels that Google is making a play at the travel vertical. Russell spotted a Google job posting for a “Google: Senior Account…
Yahoo Executives Exercise Almost $300 Million Shares In 2005
Reuters reports, as does the Wall Street Journal (subscription required), that Yahoo executives have exercised almost $300 million in stock options in 2005. Terry…
Google’s Cache Being Helped By The AdSense Mediapartners Bot
Publishers running AdSense on their pages may find that the Mediapartners-Google bot – the special Google bot used by AdSense to determine ad targeting…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Apr. 17, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Will ABC’s Online TV Shows Pave Way for ‘Next Big Idea’?
In a straw poll of media buyers, I found that the recent decision by Disney to stream some of its TV shows online for…
Daily SearchCast, April 14, 2006: MSN Getting Question Answering Service; Cell Phone Searching; What’s A Hidden Link & More!
Today’s search podcast covers MSN getting a question answering service and maybe social search; searching for information via your cell phone; just what is…
MSN Windows Live Search Getting Answers Service; May Partner Or Acquire Eurekster
Via Threadwatch, Microsoft Gets Social from BusinessWeek has news that Microsoft may be buying or partnering with Eurekster to bring social search features to…
Search Forums Roundup: Apr. 14, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Confirms…
Terrorists & Extremists Worry About Their Search Privacy
Worried that governments might spy on you through search engines? So are terrorist and extremist groups. Terrorists’ Web Chatter Shows Concern About Internet Privacy…
Microsoft’s Search By Camera Phone Research Project
Microsoft’s Camera Phone Search Project and Other Camera Phone Search Tech from ResourceShelf covers a new Microsoft Research project allowing you to take pictures…
New Schmidt Interview With Charlie Rose
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Sits Down For TV Interview With Charlie Rose from Gary Price over at ResourceShelf recaps a recent interview between Google…
Cuban’s IceRocket Sold To Think Partnership
Cuban Sells Blog Search Engine from Red Herring covers marketing firm Think Partnership planning to purchase the IceRocket blog search engine, which is coowned…
AOL Up to No Good? Probably Not.
The DearAOL Coalition are up in arms over what they’re calling e-mail censorship by AOL, but AOL insists that’s not the case. Since February,…
Daily SearchCast, April 13, 2006: Google Calendar Launches; Da Vinci Code Ad In Google Personalized Home Pages; Tracking Down Typo Domains & More!
Today’s search podcast covers the new Google Calendar service, Google’s personalized home page getting an ad; Google gaining a new head of Google Local;…
Zillow Adds Birds-Eye Imagery
Zillow, the real estate portal I wrote about several weeks ago, has added birds-eye aerial photography from Microsoft’s Virtual Earth to complement its maps…
Talking With Frucall, New Comparison Shopping Service For Your Phone
Frucall, a mobile shopping comparison service, launched in beta last week. There’s already been some good coverage. I’ve tested Frucall for books and electronics…
Yahoo To Bundle Search On For New Helio Cell Phone Service
Via Yahoo’s Russell Beattie, news that Yahoo is partnered with Helio, the new Earthlink-backed mobile phone service coming for the US. Yahoo Search, along…
Gary Price Takes On Anti-Tagging Role
Former SEW news editor Gary Price is pretty well known for being dubious about tagging. Why here he goes again after a Newsweek cover…