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Searching for a Sense of Place
Whether you're looking for the London in England, Texas or on the atoll of Kiritimati, an online gazetteer can help you locate just the…
More on Google’s Guy in D.C.
Back in October we pointed out that Google was opening a lobbying office in D.C. Today, Matt Marshall in Silicon Beat points to an…
A Possible Clue into Google’s P2P Future?
The Searchblog post, “Google Going P2P?” points out what might be about a possible clue into what Google’s plans in P2P arena. The post…
Google Releases Q4 2005 Earnings
Google has released their Q4 2005 earnings as covered in this news release. From the news release: “We are very pleased with our results…
Heavy.com Launches “Super-Banned Bowl”
This outta attract some eyeballs. Heavy.com has just announced a line-up of banned Super Bowl ads. Highlights include the GoDaddy “director’s cut” and two…
Daily SearchCast, Jan. 31, 2006: Google Toolbar 4 With Bookmarking Out; How Google Censors In China; Google’s EvilRank Scale; Keyword Searching Through Broadcast News & More!
Today’s search podcast covers a new version of the Google Toolbar with bookmarking features being released; how Google does censorship in China; how Google did…
Google Working On Goobuntu Linux Project, Fuels New OS Rumors
The Register is reporting in Google at work on desktop Linux that Google has confirmed it is working on a desktop Linux project called…
Google, Microsoft Say No To US Congressional Briefing On Chinese Censorship
Google won’t talk to Congress about China from the San Francisco Chronicle covers Google declining an invitation to appear before the US Congressional Rights…
Burger Queen
CP+B continues its Burger King/Brooke Burke paparazzi parody, begun here and furthered here. The two are now engaged, so the next logical step in…
Bloggers have options, but where’s the money?
Google’s looking to improve it’s standing with bloggers by offering up some AdSense tips for bloggers. The Inside AdSense blog shares tips for choosing…
Search Overhaul for U.S. FirstGov Government Portal
FirstGov's new, sparse search page is just the tip of the iceberg for a number of powerful, useful new features unveiled by the U.S.…
But does it sell cars?
Land Rover North America is out with a new marketing effort that aims to show off what the vehicle can do. The centerpiece of…
Patent Watch: Yahoo Awarded Patent, Microsoft Has Patent Application Published
Here’s info about a one patent recently awarded to Yahoo on determing similarity between documents along with recently published patent application by Microsoft dealing…
Sharing and Sending Web Content and More Via SMS
I’m constantly sending reminders to myself and others via SMS (text messaging). In today’s SearchDay overview of the new Google Toolbar 4 for IE…
Google Has Plans to Open R&D Office in Israel
In June, we blogged that Google planned to open a business office in Israel. Today, news that Google is in the process of also…
Mazda Taps Into Pontiac TV & Search Ads Again
Remember the post earlier about Pontiac telling people to search for them on Google? What I loved especially about that was it reminded me…
Google Created EvilRank Scale To Decide On Chinese Censorship
Via Good Morning Silicon Valley, "Google CEO on censoring: ‘We did an evil scale’" from InfoWorld has Google CEO Eric Schmidt explaining at the…
SES New York 2006 Speaking Openings Posted
I’ve now posted available openings for speaking at SES NY 2006.
New Study Reports that Search Sites Provides Twice the Conversion Rate When Compared With Other Acquisition Sources
The Dow Jones story: Search Sites Better At Getting Shoppers To Buy: Study, reports on new research from WebSideStory that shows search engines (both…
New “Bird’s Eye” Imagery for Detroit Added to MSN Live Local Database
On Friday, I posted about a new blog where users share interesting locations and things people have found while the MSN’s Live Local Bird’s…