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Daily SearchCast On Hiatus Until Nov. 8; Webmaster Radio Hit Hard By Hurricane Wilma
As I blogged earlier, I’m on vacation this week, as is Chris Sherman while Gary Price is travelling at a conference. Despite his traveling,…
Microsoft Announces MSN Book Search; Joins Open Content Alliance
Microsoft, yes good old Gates, Ballmer and crew, are getting in on the online books digitization game and more. I can’t say that I’m…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Oct 26, 2005
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Google’s New “Travel” OneBox
Looks like John “The Search” Battelle has caught yet another Google onebox on web search results pages. This new (I haven’t noticed it before)…
Google Funds Open Source Development Initiative at Two Oregon Universities
A news release from Google (they never slow down) announces that the folks in Mountain View are getting together with the two universities in…
Is Google Print Headed for Congressional Hearings?
The Google Print story (specifically, the Google Print for Libraries aspect of it) continues to make headlines. No, not another lawsuit but this time…
Google Base: It’s An Early-Stage Test Project from Google
UPDATE: We’ve postscripted (see below) with an official statement from Google about the Google Base test. Lots and lots of talk in the blogosphere…
Great Google Print Controversy Bibliography & Google Scholar Citing Issues
Two highly-respected librarians/info scientists have new resources out today that might be of interest to some of you. Charles’s W. Bailey Jr., compiler of…
Full Text of Steve Ballmer’s Keynote Interview
We’ve posted a bunch of quotes from Steve Ballmer’s keynote interview at the Gartner/IT Expo last week. Now, if you would like to read…
Shopping Search Engines and Consumer Trust
Shopping search engines pioneered the idea of displaying an online merchant’s reputation based on ratings provided by shoppers who actually bought products from a…
Several Social Bookmarking/Tagging/Community Search Services Reviewed
PCMag.com offers a roundup of reviews of several social bookmarking/tagging/community search services in the article: Share and Play Tag on the New Web Playground.…
Talk of Sun-Google Hosted Productivity Suite: “Way off Base”
The eWeek article: Rumors of Sun-Google Hosted Desktop Suite Quashed, offers a look at the constant (the article users the word “rampant”) specultation about…
Subject Experts Review Wikipedia Entries
The Guardian article: Can you trust Wikipedia?, asked subject experts to review Wikipedia enteries in their areas of expertise. Some very interesting reading. As…
Shopping Search and Merchant Reputations
Consumers often look to merchant reputations on shopping search engines when deciding to make a purchase. But who determines these reputations? And can you…
Driving Directions using MSN Virtual Earth
I just noticed a new addition of a new service to the Via VirtualEarth gallery that provides access to driving directions using Virtual Earth…
InfoSpace Announces New Pay-Per-Call Solution
Stories from Clickz and DMNews.com report that InfoSpace has partnered with Jambo to announce a new pay-per-call program. Technology provider Jambo will create a…
AdAge Cynically Leverages Blogosphere
Combine dubious research (comprised of admitted “best-guess extrapolation”), a couple of expert quotes, and the word “blog” in the headline. What do you get?…
Inside the Internet Movie Database
The Internet Movie Database is a standard and respected reference database for film and TV information, but for film, TV and pop-culture fans it's…
Germany: Publishers Plan Online Book Service
This Reuters article out of Germany: Publishers to build own online book network, comes as no real surprise. Why? Back in June, we blogged…
Exalead Part Deux: An Intro to “Smart Bookmarks”
When I wrote my post about Exalead releasing a new home page the other day I mentioned that you can add up “favorites” to…