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Ask Jeeves Drops “Jeeves” Part In France
We know that Ask Jeeves has promised a rebranding to come, with the smart money being on shortening the name to Ask and showing…
The Top Searches of 2005
Today’s SearchDay article, 2005 in Review: The Year’s Top Search Terms, features a recap of all of the year-end top searches lists we’ve posted…
2005 in Review: The Year’s Top Search Terms
More proof that search engines are not all alike: The most popular search terms of the year varied quite a bit from engine to…
New Microsoft Patent Apps Discusses the Building of Personalized Portals
About two weeks ago, Microsoft, had an interesting patent application published descibing a system that assists users in building personalized “portals” was published. As…
Yahoo 360 Can Post To Yahoo Travel, Games, Shopping, New Backgrounds & More
Last week saw Yahoo introduce some new features for both Yahoo 360 users and a new API’s for web developers. Here’s a quick review.…
MSN Updates Live.com Site With Changes/Improvements to “Search Experience”
Word from Redmond on the Live.com blog that Microsoft has made several “search related” changes (they call them improvements) to their Live.com customizable home…
BlogPulse Releases List of Top Blogs, Blog Posts, and More of 2005
The last two weeks have been busy with the release of “Top Search” lists and rankings from all of the major search players. We’ve…
4info.net Adds New Services for Mobile Web Users
4info.net is a mobile search service (SMS, Web, Mobile Web) that we’ve blogged about a lot in 2005 and I continue to be impressed…
Google.org Site Updated With Info About Google’s Latest Grant
Those of you who track Google’s philanthropic activities might be interested to know that the Google.org page has been updated with information about PlanetRead.org,…
CiteSeer Offers New Feature; Mirrors of Database Also Added
Years before Google Scholar was launched, Professor Lee Giles, from Penn State University was online with a specialty database named CiteSeer (some also might…
Tracking Santa
Over on my personal blog, I mentioned how I loved to hear Santa tracked over the radio when I was a kid and how…
Happy Holidays!
Barring a merger being announced between Yahoo and Microsoft, we’re gone, done, outta here for the holidays! And we hope you are, too. You…
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 23, 2005: Google’s Possible Second IPO; Google Promises AOL Won’t Create Compromises; Tag Search Via Wink; Top Searches Of The Year From Ask Jeeves & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google putting its 5 percent share of AOL into a holding company that may go public in the future; Google…
German SEO Forums Launched
Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Heute hab Ich gelernen ThomasB hat ihre neue SEO "forums" hier: Online Marketing Talk. And now you know why native German…
MSN Getting Cleaner Look In The Microsoft Three Portal Strategy
I want Microsoft to pick a portal brand and go with it. We’ve had MSN. Then this year, we got the new Start.com, which…
Kung Fu Over Kai-Fu Between Google & Microsoft Ends
Microsoft, Google Settle Suit from Red Herring covering the fact that Google and Microsoft are no longer going to fight over Google China head…
Jews For Jesus Sues Google Over Blogger Blog
Jews for Jesus Group Sues Google from Reuters covers Google being sued by the group in New York to force it to give up…
Google’s AOL Stake Rolling Into Holding Company It Can Take Public In 2008
I got a research note from Ben Schachter over at UBS Investment Research flagging that Google has now filed an 8-K form on the…
Meta Search Tagged Content With Wink
Want to meta search across content that has been specifically tagged in various ways? New search engine Wink is now live allowing that. It…
Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 23, 2005
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: Wish List…