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MyCroft Plugin Available for Clusty Blog Search
A very brief note to point out that Clusty’s blog search option that I wrote about a few months ago now has a MyCroft…
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos on Book Scanning and Amazon’s New Digital Book Programs
In a new interview Amazon.com CEO, Jeff Bezos, talks about Search Inside the Book and their new Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade programs. Last…
A New Report on Estimating Link Spam
Here’s a new 21 page (pdf) technical research paper from the Stanford InfoLab that takes a look at link spam. It might be of…
Silicon Valley Search SIG Meets This Week; John Battelle Talks 10 Years Of Search
The Silicon Valley Search SIG is having a retrospective on the last ten years of search, featuring John Battelle as a speaker. More details…
Google Print Is Google’s Ninth Most Popular Service
With all the debate over what Google Print might do to publishers, I was wondering if anyone was even using the service? Surely it…
Why We Use Various Search Engines
InternetRetailer has done some nice charts off of a Majestic Research/comScore report looking at why we use particular search engines (for Google, it’s the…
Google Giving Away Google Mini With Google Search Enterprise Purchase
So a correction to my earlier post in this spot (the original still below for those who care). Google’s got a new deal going…
MSN & British Library Partner On Book Search Project
We wrote earlier that MSN was getting into the book search game. Last Friday, another piece of the puzzle came out. MSN announced that…
PubSub Gains Community Lists To Rank Top Blogs By Topic
Tara at ResearchBuzz talks about PubSub’s new Community Lists, human compiled lists in various topics. There are four so far, for Law, PR, Fashion…
NYT On Google As Threat To Other Businesses
Threadwatch points to Just Googling It Is Striking Fear Into Companies from the New York Times, yet another piece that will fuel the view…
French Party Turns To Google Ads On Riot Issue
Via InsideGoogle, Paris Riots. Political Party turns to Google Ads to win support for policies of Interior Minister at Morrison covers how the UMP,…
New Ad Targeting Options May Fuel Privacy Worries
Both MediaPost and AdAge have stories on a session at Ad:Tech yesterday on a panel about how search engines are starting to target ads…
Search Engines and Reputation Management
Many companies cry foul when competitors or activists manage to get top search rankings with negative or false information about the company. Whining to…
Using Search for Public Relations & Reputation Management
Search marketing should go beyond traditional search engine optimization and paid links by bolstering a firm's reputation and customer image, according to a panel…
Yahoo Testing Pay Per Call In US
Yahoo Testing Pay Per Call has member Webvisitor reporting that Ingenio is telling him that Yahoo is testing the company’s pay-per-call solution. Ingenio already…
Once Again — The Difference Between Google Print & Google Library
After reading What’s A Week On The Web Without Controversy? over at MediaPost, I’m literally shaking my head in disbelief at the confusion in…
Yahoo! and TiVo
An analyst in this Reuters article cracks me up. Here’s what she says about the deal between TiVo and Yahoo! that has the DVR’s…
Yale Law Holding Regulating Search Symposium
I got invited to take part in the Regulating Search symposium at Yale Law School next month and desperately wish I could have made…
Microsoft Said Leading The Race For Part Of AOL
Many Suitors, and Pitfalls, as AOL Seeks a Partner from the New York Times says Microsoft is now the "front runner" in a potential…
Yahoo Buying Full Ownership Of Yahoo UK, Germany, France & Korea
Yahoo buy stakes in European, Korean portals from the Associated Press covers Yahoo spending about $500 million to acquire full ownership of Yahoo sites…