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Google Job Opening For Head Of Classified Advertising Efforts
There has been massive amounts of talk about Google’s involvement and role in the classified advertising business ( Google Base? Google Automat?). Yesterday, Eric,…
Jux2 Returns!
Jux2 the metasearch/comparative search engine that won our Best Meta Search Engine site in the 5th Annual Search Engine Awards, is back online and…
Heading To London Geek Dinner
I’ve just made it back home from our SES Chicago show today, but I’m going to fight jet lag and make it out to…
Is a Mac Version of Google Earth Coming Soon?
Hours after MS Launched their Live Local service with the cool bird’s eye imagery, stories are surfacing about the possible release (no date was…
Tag It: Acquisition, Yahoo Acquires del.icio.us
Even developing their own MyWeb 2.0 (tag, save, share service) and the Yahoo 360 set of services, Yahoo still wants more assets in the…
Redesigned Yahoo Video Home Page Now Online
Today, you’ll notice a redesigned Yahoo Video home page that is much more aesthetically pleasing. You’ll see a lot more color and three modules…
Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 9, 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: SES Chicago…
New Patent Apps from Yahoo (Data Extraction) and Microsoft (Electronic Yellow Pages) Published
The USPTO published two patent applications yesterday. One from Yahoo and and the other from Microsoft that I think are worthy of a quick…
Google Releases New Version of Sitemap Generator Tool
A new version (v1.4) of the Google Sitemap Generator Tool is now available according to Vanessa Fox from Google Engineering. She writes: This version…
Yahoo Releases International Web Search Services; Yahoo Switzerland Search Goes Live
Here’s one for the developers out there. Yahoo’s Toby Elliott points out that the comany has just released the Yahoo Web Search API for…
Profile Of Connotate Enterprise Search Company & Fight Over Control Of FAST
The Deal.com’s Lou Whiteman (via News.com), offers a profile of Connotate, a company that sees what “traditional” engines can’t. The technology comes out of…
Popular Search Terms Determine Topic of Collabarative and Web-Based Art Project
Sarah Boxer, in a New York Times article (via News.com) offers a look at site from Australia that uses popular search terms to help…
Tag Your Job Postings with the New MyIndeed.com
Things are happening fast a furious at job metasearch vertical engine Indeed.com lately. It’s a service I use quite a bit to monitor jobs…
Search Engine Strategies Chicago: Day Four
The conference is all over and many attendees are heading to O’Hare and Midway for some fun (not) at the airport while Chicago receives…
E-Mail Consolidation Continues
E-mail service provider Quris, which was majority-owned by Charles Schwab Corp. (little did I know), has a new owner today. The company was bought…
Windows Live Local Beta is Now Online; Some Global Imagery Also Added
Although they said it would go live at Noon EST, the Windows Live Local service that we wrote about yesterday is now online. Lots…
Creativity: The “Hire Me Google” Blog
Score one for creativity. I was looking at a list of brand new domain names and came across this one, HiremeGoogle.com. It links to…
A Potpourri of Search Technology Books
I review all sorts of search-related books in SearchDay. Part three of my collection of search-related book reviews, A Compilation Search Technology Book Reviews,…
Google Labs Quietly Releases Transit Trip Travel Planner for Portland, Oregon
Via Yahoo’s Zawodny: Word of Google Transit Trip Planner. This new Google Labs beta (not to be confused with Google Ride Finder, that’s one…
A Compilation Search Technology Book Reviews
Want to hack together your own search engine? Curious to dig deeper into data mining? Here's a compilation of various search-related book reviews published…