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Daily SearchCast, Dec. 1, 2005: Microsoft’s Classifieds Service Shapes Up, Google’s War Chest To Fight Redmond, Yahoo Gets Firefox Win, Upset Over Bios At Wikipedia & More!
Today’s search podcast covers how Microsoft’s classified ads service is shaping up, Google building a war chest to fight Microsoft, Yahoo ousting Google on…
Vivisimo CEO Doubts On Personal Search
Searchblog has some comments including a link to a new paper by Raul Valdes-Perez, CEO of Vivisimo, titled, Why Search Personalization is a Dead…
Danny’s Personal Blog Is Live
A non-search item here, but some of you may be interested. I’ve finally gotten my personal blog going, Daggle. I’ve actually been posting to…
Simultaneously Search and Browse All of Google’s Many Blogs; RSS Feed Also Available
Philipp over at Google Blogoscoped is one of my favorite people in the blogosphere. I just mentioned yesterday what a great job he does.…
Google Brings Anti-Virus Scanning to Gmail
Word from Gmail team at Google this afternoon that they’ve just launches anti-virus scanning to the service for all incoming and outgoing attachments. More…
Google Builds Anti-Microsoft War Chest, Expect Ads To Keep Booming & Yahoo The Stealth Search Warrior
Three business items I’m throwing into one post, Google explaining it has built up cash to fend of an unnamed big competitor, Google expecting…
Official Google Talk Blog Launches & All-In-One Official Google Blog Posts Page
Yet another official blog from Google, this one for Google Talk. When we gained the Google Base blog, I wished for Google to give…
More On Microsoft Classifieds Service — And Why Comparing To Google Base Doesn’t Make Sense
More on the forthcoming Microsoft classified ads service is coming out, with some good remarks on why Microsoft’s service may be more suited to…
Complaints Over Wikipedia Accountability With Bios
Daniel Brandt’s been upset over the accuracy and presence of a page about him at Wikipedia, and now John Seigenthaler, the former assistant to…
Humans Still Part Of Google Ad Review Process
Yesterday I posted about concerns over the relevancy of ads at Google and the question of whether human review was still being done. Yes,…
Shopping Search Week Wrapup
Today’s SearchDay article, New Players in Shopping and Comparison Search, is the last instalment of my annual shopping and comparison search roundup. The first…
AOL Mobile Search Exits Beta
Late word from AOL that after about a four month beta period, AOL Mobile Search (you can take a look with a regular web…
“Hypermaps” of Boston From StrataVarious Using Google, MSN, and Yahoo Maps
The StrataVarious HyperMap Atlas comes from Boston based StrataVarious and are available in three mashup flavors: Google Maps, MSN Virtual Earth, and Yahoo Maps.…
New Players in Shopping and Comparison Search
Although established players continue to dominate the shopping and comparison search space, a number of new companies have launched promising alternatives that offer even…
Locally Targeted Ads, Links, and Offers Coming to CBS Station Sites
DMNews reports in the article: Viacom Eyes Local Sponsored Links for CBS Station Sites, will soon launch locally targeted ads on CBS sites powered…
Mobissimo Launches One-Box Air Fare Search
Now doubt that travel search is one of the hottest vertical search markets out there. Today, Mobissimo, a travel meta search site that brings…
Advertisers Offer Google Kudos for Allowing Separate Bidding
Christine Blank’s article: Agencies Like Bidding Separately for Google Content, offers kudos from advertisers to Google for giving them more flexibility and options in…
Google Looking For Interactive TV Engineers; Yahoo Needs Search Relevance and Monetization Researcher
Yes, it’s time for another Google TV job posting! This time for engineers. The title of the job is: Software Engineer, Television Technology –…
Answers.com Now Embedded into Firefox 1.5 Search Toolbar
A quick note from Answers.com that a link to this ready-reference database is now embedded directly and automatically into the new Firefox 1.5 search…
Keyword Searching of Podcasts Using a Variety of Tools
Kim Zetter’s Wired News article, Podcast Chaos Be Gone, takes a look at some of the search tools out there that allow you to…