Latest stories
27,208 articles, newest first.
Google Announces Plan to Open Pittsburgh Engineering Office; Yahoo Opens NYC Research Center
Both Google and Yahoo today have annoucements about new offices and research facilities. First, Google is announcing that they will open an office in…
Music Searching on the Web
Here are some odds and ends, an opinion or two, and lots of links to a few specialty databases that we didn’t include in…
Yahoo Tweaks Pure Search Interface; Adds New Page Highlighting Popular Services
I’ve been posting and showing in live presentations the uncluttered, but virtually unknown Yahoo “pure search” page at https://search.yahoo.com for a long time now.…
HarperCollins To Digitize Own Books; Unclear How That Will Feed Into Book Search Engines
HarperCollins To Digitize And Control Its Book Content from the Wall Street Journal looks at HarperCollins saying it will digitize its active backlist of…
Customize Your MSN Live.com Home Page with Widgets
We’ve posted a couple of items about the new Google Home Page API in the past few days but I’ve mentioned (my bad) that…
Google Firefox Extensions For Anti-Phishing & Popping-Up Google Blog Search Results
New Firefox extensions over at Google highlights that there’s a new anti-phishing tool now out for Firefox users plus a new add-on that lets…
Yahoo Top Searches Of 2005
Top search terms of 2005 week continues. We’ve had Lycos, AOL, A9 weigh in already on the most popular searches this year. Now Top…
Yahoo Dec. 2005 Update Coming
Sixth Weather Report: Yahoo! Update Tonight from Yahoo warns that an index change will be taking place tonight and provides a feedback address for…
UDDI Business Registry Closing
Way back in 2001, I had a reader or two ask me about UDDI and a business registry that IBM, Microsoft and others were…
Google Sings a New Tune With Google Music Search
Until today, Google hasn’t been a particularly useful service for finding information on bands, links to online music stores or other music related information.…
New from Yahoo: Manage of All of Your Podcast Subscriptions on a Single Page
Word from Sunnyvale that Yahoo’s has just added a new feature to their podcast directory called My Subscriptions that allows registered Yahoo users to…
Google Adds Music Search Feature
Google has introduced a new feature that provides information about music and musical artists in response to music related search queries.
Google Page Count, Amazon Search Widgets For Google Personalized Home Page
When I posted about the new Google Home Page API last night, I said to myself that Google Blogoscoped editor, Philipp Lenssen, was going…
Ask Jeeves UK Releases Smart Search Tool for Football Fans
Football fans in the UK (see, I didn’t call it soccer) have a new Ask Jeeves Smart Search resource to use and quickly find…
Click Defense Out, AIT In as Lead Plaintiff in Click Fraud Case Against Google
At the end of June we posted a story (with several links) about a click fraud case filed by Click Defense against Google, we…
Windows Live Location Finder & Privacy
Microsoft has responded to user concerns about the type of information that’s transmitted and used when you use the new Windows Live Local “locate…
All About Microsoft’s Fremont: Product Manager Interviewed
About 10 days ago, the web was buzzing with news of Microsoft’s classified ad service code named Fremont. Zachary Rodgers from Clickz, sat done…
Nielsen: Search Queries Up, Google Has 48% of All Searches, Ask Jeeves Soars in Search Volume
The MediaWeek article: Nielsen: Google Dominates, Local Grows, reports that new October, Nielsen//NetRatings ratings numbers have been released. Here are some highlights: + In…
Rumor Mill: Acquisition Time? Is Google Going To The Opera (Browser)?
I’m not one for spreading rumors but sometimes…? Feel like a hot one? OK, we’ve got one or should I say Dirson has one.…
The A9 Top 99 Search Terms of 2005; All Terms Contain Nine Letters
I said the other day it’s the Top Search Terms of 2005 rankngs time of the year and we’ve already had releases this week…