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Google Bigdaddy Search Infrastructure To Rollout More Broadly
Bigdaddy progress update from Google’s Matt Cutts provides an update on the new Bigdaddy search infrastructure that Google has been testing for several weeks.…
Search as a Predictor of the Future?
Yahoo Research has created an interesting fantasy investment game that allows you to buy and sell “stocks” in companies developing new technologies, and watch…
Get Your Hotel Rooms Now For SES NY 2006
I’m almost through with the planning and preparation for our SES NY 2006 event that happens later this month. I’ll be giving some highlights…
Oops, Specs for Dell Computers Found in Google Cache
The News.com story: How to evade Google search, reports that once again a company, in this case Dell, has learned the hard way that…
Report from U.S. Congress Briefing on Human Rights and the Internet and China
The Congressional Human Rights Caucus held a briefing (not a formal hearing) on Wednesday about human rights issues and the Internet in China. The…
Searching for the Future
Think you're pretty good at sussing out the future? Try matching wits with Yahoo Research's fantasy prediction game that lets you bet for—or against—emerging…
Personal Search Vertical ZoomInfo Awarded U.S. Patent
ZoomInfo, a vertical that mines open web content for information about people (and a service we’ve written about many times) recently received a patent…
Daily SearchCast, Feb. 1, 2006: Google’s Profitable Earnings Still Disappoint; Hey, You Got Google Ads Into My Newspaper (And TV, Radio…); Google Wants Your PSP; Yahoo Offering SuperBowl Ads & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google’s fourth quarter earnings disappointing analysts who wanted bigger earnings; Google looking at traditional ad venues to grow revenues; Google wants…
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo Provide Statements to Congressional Caucus Regarding China Related Issues
Danny blogged yesterday that Google and Microsoft were not going to send representatives to appear at a US Congressional Human Rights Caucus briefing taking…
MeeVee Gets TV Search Patents
MeeVee, which allows you to search through television listings, has gained two patents related to TV search. The patents — 6,651,253 and 6,973,665 —…
Marketers Find Google Ads Slightly More Effective Than Yahoo & Well Above MSN
Survey: Advertisers Say Search Ads On Google Better Than Yahoo, MSN from MediaPost reports on an Outsell survey of 1,200 advertisers last November that…
Google Cofounders Visit Brazil Office
On their way back from Davos, Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin stopped by Google’s offices in Brazil. Marcelo Sant’Iago has a brief…
No More Google Foundation Funding For “Foreseeable Future,” Says Google
Google Foundation no more? from Garett Rogers at ZDNet notes that as part of its earnings announcement, Google has said that it doesn’t plan…
Google Looking To Traditional Ads For Growth
Google Growth to Come From Traditional Media from Susan Kuchinskas at InternetNews.com covers something that may have been lost in all the news about…
World Association Of Newspapers Dislikes Search Engine Exploitation, Clueless About Robots.txt Banning
Newspapers want search engines to pay over at News.com covers the World Association Of Newspapers planning to challenge the “exploitation of content” by search…
Where on Earth?
Mapping and satellite imagery services from the major search engines have been getting a lot of buzz lately, but a number of specialized geographic…
Yahoo and MSN to Offer Video Archive of Super Bowl TV Commercials
For many people tuning into the Super Bowl (aka “the Big Game”) is not about watching a football game, American football that is, but…
SideStep Powering Travel Search on Amazon.com
DMNews.com reports that travel engine Sidestep has opened a “travel store” on Amazon.com. The story also says that SideStep has entered the UK and…
Google Talks With Sony and Motorola About Municipal Wi-Fi Nets
InfoWorld reports that Google has had conversations with Motorola and Sony about their products could best be used with municipal Wi-Fi networks. Google currently…
Click-to-Call Advertising: VoIP Inc. Announces Deal with Google
The News.com article: Google calls upon VoIP, reports that Google has signed a deal with VoiceOne to provide VoIP services for Google’s click-to-call advertising…