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Experian Parent Buys PriceGrabber For $485 Million
Well, that didn’t take long. Little more than a month after PriceGrabber CEO Kamran Pourzanjani told me that his company would “continue to do…
Mobile Search: 4Info.net Has Plans to Release Client Software
4INFO, the mobile search and info provider I like and use quite a bit and that has been mentioned many times here on the…
Wayfinding on the Web
We’ve come a long way since the early days of the web, both as information consumers and search marketers. But we can do a…
Vote For Your Favorite Search Blog
Loren Baker over at Search Engine Journal is asking people to vote for their favorite search blogs. Hey, if you like us, we’d love…
Yahoo Plans Reality TV Show: “Wow House”
Continuing to believe that to be a media company, you’ve got to own your own original media, Yahoo’s planning a reality TV show. Yahoo!…
Google Releases Homepage API
Tonight, Google released a new service allowing developers the opportunity to create “modules” for the Google personalized homepage. Google software engineer, Adam Sah posts…
Information Wants to be Found
A modern paradox: As information becomes more abundant and easier to access, it's often more difficult to find what we're really looking for. That…
Google Ads On TV Through Public Television Program Underwriting
Although Google has been known for making it’s name and brand awareness to this point by primarily using word-of-mouth, viral marketing, and great pr,…
Search Engine Roundtable Launches New Online Forums
One name that I was mentioned everyday last week during SES, was Barry Schwartz (aka RustyBrick) who is famous for blogging live from SES…
Have You Been Googleshanked?
I had dinner with Allan Dick of Vintage Tub & Bath last week at SES Chicago. Allan’s a great guy, an attendee who turned…
A Look Back as Google’s Library Project Passes the One Year Mark
Tomorrow, the Google Library Project will be one year old. It’s been quite a year of news and controversy. Here’s a link to our…
Why Don’t Half of E-mail Marketers Authenticate?
Nothing like myth-busting. Today, Skylist published the top eight reasons half of e-mail marketers give for not authenticating their messages. If you’re one of…
Google Joins NASDAQ 100 Stock Index; Visualize the Index with Cool Dynamic “Heat Map”
Word that Google has been added to the NASDAQ 100 stock index. This index is, “designed to comprise the largest and most liquid nonfinancial…
AOL Releases List of 2005’s Top Search Terms
I mentioned yesterday that the “Top Searches of 2005” season was underway with the release of a top terms from Lycos. Today, it’s AOL’s…
Konfabulator Becomes Yahoo Widgets
It’s all in a name. Via GB, word that Yahoo has renamed their Konfabulator (see: Puzzled by Yahoo’s Konfabulator Purchase? Don’t Be) widgets service…
Yahoo’s Jeremy Zawodny Caught In Link Selling Debate
Google Fights Paid Links & Yahoo Defends Paid Links from Barry over at Search Engine Roundtable does a great job of recapping the ironic…
Alexa Offers Fee-Based Vertical Search Services
I guess I get to be the underwhelmed one about Alexa announcing a new Alexa Web Search Platform that’s available to anyone willing to…
ABC News Named Top News Site of 2005
Newsknife, an organization that monitors online news sites for quality and other metrics, has released its annual ranking of sites, with ABC News moving…
Burn the Spam!
I love how Yahoo!’s beta e-mail interface denotes spam. The icon shows a mail message aflame. Meanwhile “delete” is symbolized by a trash can.…
The Cable/Internet Convergence
Comcast is forming an Internet division and has named Amy Banse, who had been EVP of content development, to run the show. There’s no…