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Study: RSS Still Not Widely Adopted
New research from Yahoo and Ipsos suggests that although blogs and feeds are trendy among the technorati, awareness of RSS remains quite low among…
Are You Ready for a New Googleplex? This Time Google Heads to Arizona
This evening, The Business Journal of Phoenix is reporting that Google will annnounce on Wednesday that they plan “major new operations in the Phoenix…
Interoperability: Yahoo Instant Messenger and Microsoft Messenger Will Be Able to Talk to One Another
When Google Talk launched Danny wrote, “This is also a good point to note that Search Engine Watch has no intention of suddenly diving…
Stay Current With New Free Full Text Books With RSS Feed from the Online Books Page
No doubt that one of the hottest topics these days are full text books online. I’m not talking about the Google Print or Search…
Is Google Wallet or Some Other Google Payment System Getting Closer?
Since so much of the blogosphere revolves around speculation I thought I would join in. Is Google Wallet or whatever they call their payment…
User Engagement Means On Their Terms
I’m only on Windows during office hours, and I never, ever use Internet Explorer. I’m hardly alone. Apple announced 6.6 percent market share today,…
Recap: VeriSign Acquires Moreover
Talk today about the VeriSign acquisition of news aggregator of Moreover. Here’a a quick recap of what people are talking about: + Via Niall…
Is Google Catalogs Poised for A Comeback? What About Amazon Restaurants?
Could Google Catalogs be on its way back to being a useful service? According to this article: Google Revamping Catalog Search Section, from Multichannel…
UK Asks Net and Search Companies for Help
Mr. Wilson over at Threadwatch has a post titled: UK Gov Attempts to Control Chatrooms & Search Engines that looks at an article from…
Google Says Taiwan is Now Taiwan Not Taiwan, Province of China
Via Inside Google word in a San Jose Mercury Story that Google is labelling Taiwan as Taiwan on Google Maps and no longer: Taiwan,…
Battelle Takes Questions from Readers of The Guardian
A few weeks ago, John “The Search” Battelle took questions (offline) from readers of The Guardian about Google and the future of the company.…
Daily SearchCast, Oct. 11, 2005: Yahoo Gains Podcast Search, Blends Blogs & News; Google Gains Feed Reader, Bookmarking Feature, GoogleGuys Brin & Cutts Speak, Gada Meta Search For Mobiles Launches & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Yahoo getting both a new podcast search service and mixing new blog search results into Yahoo News, while Google launches…
IT.Com Enhances Services With White Paper Search Tool
A brief article in Media Post today about IT.com, a an engine focusing on Info Tech material, notes that this vertical engine how is…
Yahoo Should Let News Search Users Know What a Blog Is; Search Only Blogs From Yahoo News/Blog Integration
I would like to add just two words to Danny’s excellent overview of the news/blog integration at Yahoo News. The words are are definitions…
Google Lets You Manually Save & Tag Results Through New Bookmarks Feature
Google Adds Tagging from Nathan over at InsideGoogle is a nice look at how Google now gives you the ability to manually save results…
Thoughts On & Playing With Yahoo’s Blog Search
I’ve been playing with Yahoo’s new blog search that Chris wrote about earlier and wanted to share some of my thoughts, plus link to…
Chris Pirillo’s Gada.be: Metasearch Plus Ease of Use For Mobile Searchers
When Scoble mentions something that might be of special interest to the mobile searcher, I’m of course going to give it a look. Yesterday,…
Searching for Video and Podcasts
Multimedia search has become hot recently, with the major search engines jostling with a crowd of upstart newcomers to offer a wide range of…
Zunch Execs Depart, Form New Company Kinetic
Kevin Ryan, known to many for his search column at iMedia Connection, has departed along with four other Zunch Communications executives to restart a…
Video and Podcast Search Engines
Video streams and podcasts have exploded in popularity on the web, but how do you search to find this type of content? And if…