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Other Q&A Services, Most Available For Free!
The new Yahoo Answers joins a long list of other answer-providing services. Here’s a recap of some prominent services that offer online Q&A. Like…
The Birth of Yahoo Answers
Now out in beta is Yahoo Answers, Yahoo’s new social networking/online community/question answering service. The service allows any registered Yahoo user to ask just…
Google Catalogs Goes Offline for Retooling
In the past 24 hours or so one of Google’s most useful and different tools went offline for what appears to be a retooling.…
Tweaks to Gmail Reported
Google Blogscoped with a nice chunk of info about changes and additions to Gmail. You’ll learn that mail attachments from Word, Acrobat and others…
How Does Ask Jeeves Get Its Advertising Point Across?
Along with the awesome coverage by Barry and Phoenix of SES Chicago, here’s another story from the SES Cconference via DMNews.com. This one takes…
Confirmed: Windows Live Local Coming Tomorrow With Cool Aerial Imagery
SEW Blog can now officially report that Windows Live Local, the new local search + aerial imagery service, will go live online beginning at…
Google and Microsoft Play “The Price is Right” with AOL
According to a Reuters story (via News.com): Microsoft, Google still vying for AOL: that proposals from both Microsoft and Google have been submitted to…
The New York Public Library and Answers.com Announce New Homework Service
Lots of news coming from Answers.com in the past 24 hrs. First, the acquisition of Brainboost and this morning, word that Answers.com has teamed…
Reports from Search Engine Strategies Chicago: Day Three
It’s day three at SES Chicago and Barry and Phoenix are still keeping warm buy working hard and providing complete session reviews. Here’s a…
Filmloop Begins eBay Motors Pilot
As expected, Filmloop has launched a pilot program to stream eBay Motors listings to their desktop “photocasting” application. Users can subscribe to a particular…
Google Once Again Looking for Ad Quality Raters
We’ve blogged numerous times about Google and their quality rater program. A quick note to let you know that once again Google is looking…
Click to Call Pilot Project Begins in Australia
I guess one pay per call/click to call news item deserves another one. According this announcement, click to call has come to Australia with…
Infospace Calls On Ingenio for Pay Per Call Partnership
News out of San Francisco and Seattle today that InfoSpace and Ingenio have announced a partnership that will bring Ingenio’s Pay Per Call technology…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Dec 7, 2005
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Answers.com Buys “Answer Extraction” Engine Brainboost for $4 Million in Cash and Some Shares of Restricted Stock
Word from Answers.com that they’ve acquired an “answer extraction” database that utilizes NLP (natural language processing), Brainboost.com for $4 million in cash and 439,000…
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Interviewed on NPR
One of the most popular topics in the mainstream press the few days has been the Wikipedia. What it is, how it works, etc.…
Human Podcast Transcribers from CastingWords.com
We’ve been posting a number of articles about podcast searching lately. In fact, yesterday I pointed out that Podscope was now offering keyword RSS…
Blinkx Releases Keyword Searchable Archive of Classic European TV Commercials Online
This sounds not only useful to researchers but also quite fun. Netimperative reports that BlinkxTV, a company that seems to be adding content to…
About.com Ready to Relaunch
DMNews reports that about nine months after the NY Times purchased About.com, the site/service is about to relaunch. The news was made at SES…
Fathom: Keyword Prices Drop in November
New numbers from Fathom from this Media Daily News article: Keyword Prices Tumble, reports that in November keyword prices fell 11% from $1.64 per…