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Gary’s Other Blogs: Resources, Tools, and Documents
Since Danny has a new personal blog up and running, I thought I would take just a brief moment of your time and invite…
Collaborative Web Tagging Will Be Topic of Workshop at WWW 2006
Collaborative taggers should tag the following item, “workshop.” The RawSugar Blog (RawSugar is a social search engine (beta) with over 135,000 URLs tagged by…
Millions of eBay Items Now Searchable on MSN Shopping
Just in time for the holiday shopping season and interesting move from MS. You can now search MSN Shopping and find items up for…
Public Domain Books: More than 25,000 Full Text Books in a Single Database
Talk about online books seem to be a very frequent topic of conversation in the search world today. In the past few weeks we’ve…
A Flaw Could Cause Problems for Google Desktop Users Who Use Internet Explorer
Google Spokesperson, Sonya Boralv, has told News.com that Google has just learned about and is looking into a possible flaw with Internet Explorer that…
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 2, 2005: Google Sandbox Effect, Yahoo’s Search Behaviorally Targeted Ads, Will Personalized Search Work, All Official Google Blog Posts In One & More!
Today’s search podcast covers the Google Sandbox effect and how some feel it prevents new sites from ranking well; Yahoo’s search behaviorally targeted ads;…
Google: From AdWords and AdSense to Publication Ads
BusinessWeeks’s Ben Elgin takes an in-depth look at what appears to be Google’s growing interest in the publication ad business in the new article:…
MSN Using Human Quality Raters to Review Results
Via Threadwatch (and its new man in charge, Aaron Wall), word that MSN Search is also using quality raters to revew and rate results.…
New Rule of E-Mail, Socially Networked
This week Microsoft introduced SNARF, an organization tool that groups e-mail by social networking conventions based on information available on your computer system. I…
On Craigslist, Job Loses at Mainstream News Orgamizations, and Citizen Journalism
The San Franscisco Weekly reports in the article Craig$list.com, that the very popular classified ad site, its founder calls it an online marketplace “like…
Yahoo Adds RSS Alerts Delivered via E-Mail, IM, or SMS
The other day Danny blogged about Yahoo adding an RSS viewing option to the beta version (that I like a lot) of Yahoo Mail.…
December Begins With Plug-In-Palooza for Google Desktop and Sidebar
The first of December has given us a bunch of new plug-ins for the Google Desktop and Sidebar. Here’s a quick list. Links to…
A Look at Working at Ask Jeeves
I’m regularly posting about job openings and working life at Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, I don’t think I’ve ever included any job listings…
November 2005 Search News Recap Posted
The latest edition of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now online, recapping tops stories in search from the past month. You can…
Yahoo Impulse & Search Behavioral Ads
Yahoo using online behavior to target ads from Reuters covers briefly the “new, new thing” according to Yahoo executive vice president Greg Coleman where…
After Product Pitch, Google Won’t Call Back But Still Tests The Product
Spotted via Threadwatch, search tech start-up Kozoru finds that after presenting to Google, they won’t return emails or phone calls — but will happily…
Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 2, 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: Just how…
Search Engines Forum Spotlight
Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Just how Important is SEO in a Business Start Up - Dealing…
Google Sandbox, Sandbox-Like Filters & Escaping With Trusted Links
For well over a year, there's been massive debate and speculation that Google puts all new sites into a 'sandbox,' preventing them from ranking…
The Search Engine Update – Number 210 – Dec. 2, 2005
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the second half of November 2005.