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Google and Yahoo Talking About Sponsorship of Manchester United Football Club
I had a dream a few weeks ago about search engines beginning to, in one form or another, sponsor sports teams. Well, maybe my…
Google & Yahoo: The New VCs?
Two articles out this week cover how Google and Yahoo are duking it out not with each other but instead with venture capital firms…
Matt Cutts Pokes At SEO Software
Google’s Matt Cutts, clearly irritated at the many worthless SEO software pitches he sees (and many of these are worthless), does some deconstructing. SEO…
Hey Googlers — Let Us Manage Your Wealth!
Via John Battelle, Filthy Rich, But Froogle from BusinessWeek looks at the wealth management companies hoping to land Googlers as clients — and what…
Lycos Europe Ordered By Dutch Court To Reveal Member’s Identity
Dutch Court Orders Lycos To Reveal Client’s Identity from Dow Jones has the supreme court in The Netherlands ordering Lycos Europe to reveal the…
Kazaa Ordered By Australian Court To Block Searches
Via Russell Beattie, Search terms on Kazaa to be blocked from ZDNet Australia has the rather disturbing order of an Australian court telling Kazaa…
TiVo To Offer TV Ad Search
TiVo Users Soon Can Search for Ads from the Wall Street Journal covers a new "feature" from TiVo planned for next spring to let…
Search Forums Roundup: Nov. 28, 2005
Today’s SearchDay article, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: Google…
NetLibrary: Over 100,000 Digitized and Searchable Books Available Online
Before we offer a look at another online book database, NetLibrary, a brief review. Last week I wrote about ebrary, a company offering thousands…
Mashup Lover and Google’s Chief Evangelist, Vint Cerf, Interviewed
Perhaps Google’s most famous new hire, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Vint Cerf, has sat down with Juan Carlos Perez of the IDG…
New Search Shortcuts from Yahoo
The Yahoo Search Blog points out that they’ve added a couple of new search shortcuts (They have about thirty now). What’s new? + Movie…
AOL High Quality Video Downloads, AOL Triton IM Gets Search Box & Sharing MSNBC Articles Via MSN Messenger
AOL is running an new trial of “high quality” video you can download, AOL’s Triton IM tool has a new search box and MSNBC…
CustomizeGoogle Gains Blog; Pitches New Feature To Override Google Book Search Print Restriction
CustomizeGoogle (CG), the popular and award winning Firefox extension that offers numerous options to customize the search engine (including one option to remove ads…
Google: The Print Ad Company Ramps Up Hiring
In the past few months we’ve both posted and read about Google beginning to move into the print advertising biz by purchasing space in…
Indeed.com Releases Canadian Job Search Database
Job metasearch vertical, Indeed.com, has just launched a new Canadian version (English speaking Canada that is) of their database at Canada.indeed.com. A Francophone version…
4info.net Enhances Content and Adds More Info
A quick note to point out that 4info.net, the mobile (text messaging, mobile and non-mobile web search) and email search tool has enhanced some…
Bill Gates: MSN Search Will Soon “More than Match” Google in Terms of Relevance
In an interview with Information Week, Bill Gates talks about Microsoft Research and speaks briefly about search and of course mentions a competitor that…
Former Google Brand Manager Blogging Days At Google
Spotted via Google Weblog (unofficial), Xooglers is a new blog run by Google’s former director of consumer marketing and brand management, Doug Edwards. It…
The Google Battle For Hiring Tech Talent (Yahoo Sez They Win)
From the Wall Street Journal, Google ignites hiring frenzy is yet another article on how Google and other companies are after tech talent. This…
Google Spaces Internet Cafe At London Heathrow & Google Featured In UK TV Ads
Via Google Blogoscoped, Google turns Heathrow into testing lab from ZDNet covers Google opening a "Google Space" internet cafe at London’s Heathrow airport, plus…