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Yahoo Sr. Director of Product Management Discusses Yahoo’s New Podcast Directory
If you’re interested in learning more about Yahoo’s new podcast directory, the Kansas City infoZine has an interview (in podcast form, of course) with…
Blogpulse and AOL Annouce Deal
Our friend, Pamela Parker at Clickz reports on a just announced deal that will bring “daily blog data and trend analysis” to AOL provided…
A Healthy Start for New Medical Search Engine
Even though searching for health related information is one of the most common things people do on the web, it’s not always easy to…
Curing Medical Information Disorder
Healthline is a specialized medical search engine that offers high-quality, authoritative information that's easy to find, even if you don't speak medicalese.
The Top 100 Global Brands: Where Do Google and Yahoo Place?
BusinessWeek has released their ranking of the Top 100 global brands. What’s the criteria to be considered for the list: The table that follows…
Gmail’s Help Center Home Page Gets a Makeover
It’s makeover time! The home page Gmail’s Help Center has just received a makeover and its new look is now online. Most notable to…
MSN Shopping Search Now Available on Start.com Portal
If you follow shopping search and/or personalized portal scene closely, you might be interested to learn that MS’s “incubation experiment” Start.com has just added…
More on Google’s Plan for Wi-Fi in San Francisco; Text of Google’s Filing Available
If you’re interested in learning more about Google’s plan (one of 17) for providing free Wi-Fi access throughout San Francisco, the San Jose Mercury…
Is Google Gearing Up for a Mac Software Assault?
One question we often get asked comes from Macintosh users. They ask, “Does Google have any plans to release some/any/all of their desktop client…
Travel Databases for Europe: Lots of Trains and Some Planes
A few friends who are considering doing some serious train travel throughout Europe (many countries, several stops, whole thing) and they asked me for…
Google Updates Privacy Policy
If you’re looking for some weekend reading, Google has just updated their privacy policy. I used HTML Match to create a comparison of the…
Now It’s Yahoo’s Turn to Make a Play for AOL
Surprised, nope. The way it’s going, kids will soon be asking their parents for AOL for the holidays. No, not the service but for…
In the Case of Google’s Dr. Kai-Fu Lee: California Judge Sides (For Now) with Microsoft
The Associated Press, Reuters, and other sources report from that a California judge has sided with Microsoft and issued a, “tentative court ruling that…
Nigerian Spam Legislation?
Anti-spam legislation in Nigeria?! “Any person spamming electronic messages to recipients with whom he has no previous relationship – especially the so-called 419 e-mails…
SES Chicago 2005 Agenda & Speaking Update
I’d hoped to have the SES Chicago agenda ready by this date, but that won’t happen until next week. I’ve posted a revised timeline…
Daily SearchCast, Oct. 14, 2005: Craigslist Asks Oodle To Keep Out, Detecting Fake PageRank, Bloglines Gets Keyboard Controls, Top SEO Starting Tips, Getting Pure Yahoo Blog Search Results & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Craigslist asking classifieds meta search engine Oodle not to gather its listings, a new tool to detect PageRank fakers, Google…
New Research on How We Search
Two new studies give further weight to the growing importance of search in our lives. iCrossing, New York, and Harris Interactive interviewed more than…
Craigslist Says No To Oodle’s Scraping
Via John Battelle, news that classified ads search engine Oodle has been asked by Craigslist to stop scraping their listings. Oodle says most listings,…
Fake PageRank Detection Tool
Using redirection and cloaking, a site can lay claim to the PageRank score of another site, with Dark SEO Team giving you a classic…
Search Forums Roundup: Oct. 14, 2005
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: Microsoft and…