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President of University of Michigan Talks Google Book Search
Via Searchblog, I read the excerpts from a speech by the President of the University of Michigan, Mary Sue Coleman, about Google Book Search…
More European Automaker Sites Do Doorways & Should Search Engines Be Able To Enforce Spam Rules?
Dave Naylor’s been doing a tour of European automotive sites and finding others that are doing the doorway page dance that got BMW banned…
Google: Chat a Natural Fit with Email
In its ever expanding push into communications, Google has added chat to Gmail, tightly integrating the new feature with the archiving and search capabilities…
AOL CertifiedEmail Is Not E-mail Postage
AOL is not charging postage for e-mail. There’s been a lot of misinformation about that point in the past week, as a result of…
Google Integrates Chat with Gmail
Continuing its push into communications products and services, Google has incorporated a chat client into Gmail, blending the best features of both technologies.
Google Launches Robots.txt File Checker; Now We Need Robots.txt Standardization
Google now provides a way to check on that through the Google Sitemaps program. A real life example of how nice this is, along…
Google Sitemaps Stats On Most Common Words In Your Anchor Text & Site Content
Along with the cool new robots.txt checker, Google Sitemaps has also released stats showing the most common words used on pages within your web…
France’s Exalead Continues Growing, Database Passes 4 Billion Page Mark
Throughout 2005 one of the most impressive new, general purpose, web engines was Exalead from France. Several of our posts are linked at the…
The chrisisthebest rohtuaswentahyarg & gurtieisthebest rohtuaswentahyarg SEO Contests
I know, I know. I swore off writing about SEO contests. But the chrisisthebest rohtuaswentahyarg SEO contest is different, as it involves some of…
Rupert Murdoch on Web Search, No Assault on Google or Yahoo in the Works
A brief article on News.com.au titled: News Corp won’t take on Google, reports that Mr. Murdoch and crew does not plan to get directly…
Report: Lycos May Have Laid Off Most Its Search Team Go
Battelle over at Searchblog reports that two sources have told him that Lycos may have let most of its search team go and will…
PayPal Chief Doesn’t Believes Google’s Statements About Online Payment System
Mylene Mangalindan’s article in the Wall Street Journal (free to all): PayPal Prepares For a Challenge From Google takes a look at how online…
Google Bans BMW Germany, Ricoh Germany
Last week, I wrote about BMW Germany being spotted spamming search engines. Google’s Matt Cutts posted on Saturday that the site is now out…
Which Search Engines Log IP Addresses & Cookies — And Why Care?
Last week I wrote how John Battelle followed up with Google to find out if they can link search data to IP addresses or…
Ask Jeeves Opens European R&D Center; Several Interesting Live Demos and Papers by AJ R&D Center Leader Also Available
We’ve been posting about several new R&D centers from Yahoo and Google in the past few week’s and today we’ve learned that Ask Jeeves…
Searching Television News
A new free service from multimedia search engine TVEyes lets you search each and every word spoken during TV news broadcasts from well-known news…
Google and Others Invest in Wireless Servies Company
Om Malik reports that Google, Skype, and others have invested in FON, a wireless services startup. FON describes itself this way: FON is a…
Classified Search Special Interest Group Discussion
The San Francisco area search special interest group is sponsoring a panel discussion called “Classified Search: All Your Ads Belong To Us,” on Wednesday,…
The Ethics and Politics of Search Engines
A panel discussion, “The Ethics and Politics of Search Engines,” is coming up on Monday, Feb. 27, from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Benson Center,…
Targeting Local Searchers
Although SEM on local search verticals bears many resemblances to global search marketing, there are subtle nuances and differences in searcher behavior that you…