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Yahoo No Longer Bidding for Piece of AOL
Reuters and the Wall Street Journal report that Yahoo is no longer interested in getting a piece of the AOL pie. After we learned…
Google Wants Free WiFi For Mountain View
Like others, we were dubious when Google said it didn’t have plans to expand free wifi outside of San Francisco, where it has pitched…
Google Personalized Search Grows Up
Google seems to be amping up the pace of pushing products out of the nest. This morning, the company moved Personalized search out of…
Mike Grehan’s Son Attacked, Recovering
Mike Grehan’s a popular search writer that many know. Sadly, his son was recently attacked by someone with his knife and seriously injured. He’s…
Google Personalized Search Leaves Google Labs
Google's personalized search has graduated from Google Labs and is now available to users on 39 worldwide Google domains in addition to Google.com.
Matt Cutts Banned On Google? And Oct. 2005 Jagger Update Winds Down
A look at how the recent Google update is causing domain name consolidation problems that hit even the blog of popular Google engineer Matt…
SES Chicago 2005 Speaker Openings Posted Tomorrow
Sometime tomorrow — Nov. 10 — I promise to have openings for the SES Chicago posted on this page. I’ll also repost to the…
A Look at Some Patent Applications from Yahoo, Microsoft and Others
With so much attention being placed on each and every U.S. patent application that Google has published, I thought it would be interesting to…
IBM Joins Corporate Monitoring Space with Release of Public Image Monitoring Solution
According to this article from News.com, IBM is joining other players in offering services that monitor a company’s “image” using the web mentions, blog…
Learn About Open Content Alliance Book Scanning at the University of Toronto
Book digitization has been going on at the University of Toronto Libraries for some time. In fact, I wrote about scanning at UT and…
Answers.com Adds New Content to Database
Word from Answers.com that they’ve added several new reference selections to their already impressive collectin of free tools. New this month: + Devil’s Dictionary…
October 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…
Macmillan’s Book Digitisation Program: BookStore
Trying to keep all of the book digitization projects out there in some order is becoming a full time job. The Information World Review…
Google Adds Option to Limit to Creative Commons Licensed Material
Many sources including Philipp, Nathan, and Tara, have reported that Google has made an addition to their advanced search interface and now allow users…
WebmasterWorld Network Troubles
WebmasterWorld, which had network problems last month, seems to be having them again. Barry’s at SE Roundtable is reporting problems getting there from New…
Google Print–Is it Time to Change Copyright Laws?
The Salon.com article: Throwing Google at the book, takes another look at the Google Print program and asks if it’s time to change copyright…
Google Automat: Web-Based User-Assisted Classified Advertising
Many sources including Battelle, Jarvis, Ali, and nicely summarized by Susan Kuchinskas at InternetNews.com report on a new Google (new and Google–aren’t those words…
Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie: “We Knew Search Would Be Important”
We’ve read numerous comments from Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer in the recent past about web search and Google in particular. This time…
Denton’s cynicism
Like his bloggers, Nick Denton is popular for his cynicism. Before his ad:tech panel yesterday, he told me there’s nothing he’s very excited about…
Recap Of SEW Forums Live Event At Disneyland
I was on vacation over the past two weeks in Southern California, but I took a few hours off to leave my family at…