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New Google Catalogs Database Now Live
That was fast. Via Google Blogoscoped word that Google Catalogs, you know, the one that went offline last week, is now back online. The…
Lycos Kicks off the “Top Search Terms of the Year” Season
Well, it’s that time of the year when the top search term lists begin appearing. It’s a holiday of sorts for pop culture fanatics…
Chitika faces criticism from publishers
Chitika, a new contextual ad network that launched in May, has come under fire from publishers in its network — mostly bloggers — who…
HGTV launches vertical broadband video channel
HGTV.com has launched HGTVKitchenDesign.com as part of its vertical content strategy, which was outlined in May. The site is launching with six charter advertisers:…
Searches for Google’s Share Price, AdWords, and New Homes
So a Googler or the relative of a Googler goes to Google and types in the ticker symbol of Google (GOOG) to see the…
Havoc With Google Accounts
For the past week, I was surprised to discover that despite having an active Google Analytics account, I kept getting a message when logging…
Writely Adds New Convert to PDF Feature and Another Free PDF Conversion Tool Called DocMorph
It was about 36 hours ago that I pointed to a ResourceShelf overview of Writely, a wonderful and free web-based word proccessor and collaboration…
New People and Company Search Tools from ZoomInfo
ZoomInfo, a “people search” company I wrote about in the SearchDay article Searching for People with ZoomInfo back in March, has released several enhancements.…
ZoomInfo Enhances People Search
ZoomInfo, the Boston-based 'people search' company has added several new features that help you search more than 27 million personal profiles.
Melissa Data’s Hearty Buffet Of Lookup Databases Grows Larger, More Useful
Back in 2003, my SearchDay article A Hearty Buffet of Look-Up Databases looked at the many free online databases that Melissa Data, a mailing…
UK: Thomson Directories and Skype Announce Partnership
How about a large local directory provider and a large VoIP service partnering and tossing in a bit of the click to call concept?…
Create Your Own Collection Of Searchable RSS Feeds With ScoopGo & Blogdigger Groups
A quick post to point out Tara’s recent item (when Tara writes, we read) about ScoopGo, a new tool that allows the user to…
Big Guys Crowd Out Little Guys in SEM Arena; Some Branding Focused Advertisers Willing to Spend “Whatever” It Takes
The Media Post article: Search Execs: Big Brands Muscling Out Small Players, reports on comments made at the SG Cowen Internet Conference last week…
Yahoo and Aussie TV Net Announce Ad Partnership; Plans to Form New Company
Kevin Newcomb reports in Clickz that Yahoo Australia & NZ and Australian TV network, Seven Network will form a new company that will allow…
Book Digitization: Project Gutenberg Founder Interviewed
We’re talking a lot about digitized books these days here on the blog. Project Gutenberg has been around since 1971 digitizing and copying public…
New Stuff from Google AdWords: Troubleshooting Wizards, Landing Pages & Your Quality Score, and Larger Font Sizes For AdWords
Three items on the Google AdWords beat to report on: a new troubleshooting wizard for advertisers with missing ads, landing pages factored into ranking…
A Recommended Reading List for Info Retrieval Geeks
If your a search and information retrieval geek, an article in the just online issue of SIGIR Forum has a great annotated bibliography that…
Del.icio.us (or is it Yahoo.licio.us?) Bookmarks Come to the Google Sidebar; Indeed.com Also Now Sidebar Accessible
So, your a Del.icio.us or is it now “Yahoo.licio.us” bookmarks user and you also use the Google Desktop Sidebar. Well, thanks to a new…
A New Online Poetry Archive and Database; Writing Online With Writely.com
About a week ago, the The Online Poetry Archive (OPA) debuted in the UK and is now accessible on the web. The brainchild of…
Web Search History: Before Google Answers and Yahoo Answers There Was “Answer Point” From Ask Jeeves
How about some web search industry history? Long before two major search engines, Google and Yahoo offered Google Answers and Yahoo Answers, their human…