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Google Enhances Desktop Features
Google has launched Google Desktop 3 (beta), offering a number of new features that should appeal to regular users and may tempt non-users to…
Google Desktop Gets New Features
Google has released Google Desktop 3.0 beta, which includes several new features. Three of the new features Google considers 'major' enhancements, but several other…
Buttons, Buttons, Get & Make Your Google Toolbar Buttons
A look at how to make Google Toolbar search buttons for your own site and offer them to others.
IAC Revenues Up 45%, Turns Profitable
Paid Content reports that Ask Jeeves’ parent company IAC reported better revenue and earnings figures for the last quarter of 2005: The company had…
Google Testing Expanded Print Ads Program
Via Threadwatch, Google is testing a new auction-based print advertising program, allowing advertisers to choose ad size, set a price, and decide how to…
January 2006 Search News Recap Posted
The latest edition of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now online, recapping tops stories in search from the past month. You can…
Daily SearchCast, Feb. 8, 2006: Google Nabs Amazon’s A9 Chief; Google Software Being Distributed On Dell Computers; Banned BMW Back In Google & More!
Today’s search podcast covers A9 losing its top exec to Google; Silicon Valley university students protest Google’s China censorship; Google testing software distribution with Dell;…
Answers.com Adds New Ready Reference Content to Database
It’s great to see that Answers.com, a “ready reference” service with a growing database of factual information from a wide variety of sources continues…
Google Introduces Marked Up Version Of Privacy Policy Changes
Google Brilliantly Updates Privacy Policy from Nathan at InsideGoogle notes that for Google Talk’s privacy policy, you can now view a previous version where…
Google Chinese Censorship Protested At Stanford, Berkeley
News.com points at a San Francisco Chronicle article covering protests at UC Berkeley and Google’s alma mater Stanford University over its Chinese censorship policy.…
IAB Releases Updated Spider List
Spider/Bot Chase Goes Trans-Continental at ClickZ and IAB Updates Bot and Spider List at MediaPost both cover how the Interactive Advertising Bureau has released…
Welcome Back To Google, BMW — Missed You These Past Three Days
I said BMW would be back soon after they got banned on Saturday. Matt Cutts over at Google lets everyone know they are now…
Google Testing Software Distribution With Dell, Plus Details On IE7 Search Battle
We covered last month that Google was providing personal home pages for Dell. Dell testing preinstalled Google software package from Reuters now looks at…
Winners and Losers in Super Bowl Search Marketing
I find it hard to believe, but most of the advertisers who paid millions to have their ads shown during the Super Bowl completely…
Super Bowl Search Marketing Scorecard
While much attention was focused on the television ads aired during the super bowl, the real winners were those firms who combined traditional media…
The Wayback Machine Announces Larger Archive
We’ve noticed that the publicly announced total size of permanently archived web pages found in The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has increased in size…
Feedster Gets a New Look
A quick note to point out that “feed” search engine, Feedster, has undergone a makeover. Much cleaner and easier to read home page with…
Udi Manber Leaves A9 to Join Google
Searchblog reports that Udi Manber, formerly the person in charge at A9 (Amazon.com’s search site) is heading to the Googleplex where he’ll now work.…
Tracking the Technology News Trackers
“Meme” trackers like Memorandum and Topix.net show you what’s currently hot in both mainstream news and in the blogosphere. They’re great services to help…
Daily SearchCast, Feb. 7, 2006: BMW Banned By Google Over Spamming; Google Sitemaps Rolls Out Robots.txt Checker And Other Tools; Memeorandum’s Awesome For Blog Scanning & More!
Today’s search podcast covers BMW being banned by Google for spamming; cool new tools from Google Sitemaps; scanning the blogosphere with Memeorandum and more! Tune-in…