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Short Queries Maybe More Sophisticated Than We Think
I Hate Search. Don’t Hate Search. Now, I Speak Search. Next week, "I Heart Search" and "I Grok Search" will be coming, as well…
Top Ten SEO Starting Tips
New and Improved 10 Tips to the Top at Search Engine Guide has Jill Whalen of HighRankings taking a fresh look at top SEO…
Brett & I Embrace … Ah … Put The Squeeze On Spam
Matt Cutts notes that long-time search marketer Joseph Morin is now blogging, kicking off with a photo proving that I and WebmasterWorld’s Brett Tabke…
Pure Yahoo Blog Search Via Threadwatch
I wished earlier that Yahoo would move ahead with a standalone blog search service, rather than forcing you to go thorugh Yahoo News for…
Hitwise: Google Leads in UK Search Race
According to new research from Hitwise, Google powers 7 in 10 UK searches. The study also reported that 94% of all UK searches come…
Smarter.com Co-Founder Does Video Interview
Those of you who follow shopping search closely might like to take a look at this video interview with, Talmadge O’Neill, one of the…
Eyeblaster’s Answer to PointRoll Included
Through a new program called EyeNet, Eyeblaster is incentivizing publishers to sell its formats, a la PointRoll’s included network. From the release: EyeNet’s preferred…
Bloglines Announces Enhancements To Service
Mark Fletcher (a very nice guy by the way) and his Bloglines team are announcing several new enchancements to the Bloglines web-based news aggregator…
Daily SearchCast, Oct. 13, 2005: Google Buying Part Of AOL?, Spellchecking With The Google Toolbar, The Google Dentist Hoax, Mixing Google Maps And Wikipedia, Pimping Your Mobile Bookmarks & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google considering buying a piece of AOL, spellchecking with the Google Toolbar, Google’s onsite dentist being a hoax, mixing Google…
Blogger and Google Cache Now Accessible in China
The Infoworld article: Google’s Blogger service now accessible in China, reports that the Blogger service (at least for the time being) is back online…
Mashing Up Google Maps with Wikipedia Articles
Google Maps, now integrated with Google Local, offers a lot of information about local merchants, but these detailed results typically don’t include “overview” information…
The Google Toolbar Spellchecker & Getting Spellchecking In Your Search Box
Yesterday, I wrote about what seemed to be a new feature Google was testing to put spell checking into the search box. Nope, not…
Don’t Hate Search
I Hate Search from David Cohen at ClickZ posits the self-admitted conspiracy idea that if search engines made free listings better, then ads wouldn’t…
Google’s Onsite Dentist Is A Hoax!
It turns out there is no onsite dentist as Google, as we and others reported yesterday. Yeah, you got us! Google Blogoscope’s got the…
Want to Be A Google AdWords Coordinator in China?
I noticed for the first time this afternoon (am I late to the party on this one?) that Google is advertising on its website…
Pimp My Mobile Bookmarks
As many of you know I come from a research (library) and content background. It was great to hear from several of you who…
Nice Work if You Can Get It: Details Emerge About Google’s Newest Board Members Stock Package
Here’s some nice additional work if you can get it, get on the Google Board of Directors! It was widely reported last week that…
Mapping Places in Wikipedia
Where in the world is the Kaministiquia River? Wikipedia tells us that the river empties into western Lake Superior at the city of Thunder…
The Power of Broadband (Sponsored by Verizon)
Who knew there was actually a branded entertainment contest? ProMotion Pictures is a film competition that teams the marketing folks from NYU’s business school…
Resource Filled Webliographies (Free!) from the Association of College Research Libraries
The Association of College Research Libraries (ACRL) is one organization that’s part of the American Library Association. Each month, on our ResourceShelf site, I…