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Yahoo Integrates News, Blogs & Flickr Search Results
Yahoo is testing a new approach to delivering news search results, combining traditional media sources with “citizen journalism” from blogs and images from its…
Some of Gigablast Gets a Makeover and Goes Green
It appears that Gigablast has undergone a makeover of sorts. Although the Gigablast home page and their results pages have the same “old” look,…
Talking With Google’s Matt Cutts
Interview Of Matt Cutts from Aaron of SEO Book is a nice talk with Matt Cutts, Google’s spam fighter, webmaster relations guru, quality assurance…
Yahoo Blog Crawler Page Up For Site Owners — Blog Search To Come
I posted last week about Yahoo saying that blog search was likely to come within days. Well, here’s another sign that it will be…
Searching (or Not) With Spam Google
Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped fame has a new parody site online today called Spam Google. The site’s slogan is, “Just the Noise.” If…
The blinkx / Autonomy Relationship
Over the past few days I received an email asking just who owns and runs blinkx and blinkx.tv. JD also blogged about an email…
Yahoo Gains Podcast Directory
News from the Yahoo Search Blog that Yahoo’s gained a new Yahoo Podcasts site, where you can search for podcasts or listen to them…
Show Your My Web Saved Pages On Your Site — But Still No Add To My Web Button!
Oh, such disappointment. Back when Yahoo released My Web 2.0, I wished for an Add To My Web button that could be placed on…
WordPress Selling Links — But Using AdBrite Solves Search Engine Concerns
Revisiting how link selling can be frowned upon by search engines unless nofollow or redirection is used in some way to prevent search ranking…
Google Begins Hiring for Some Sort of Facility in Ann Arbor, Michigan
In early June we blogged about Google looking for large amounts of office space throughout the country. One location mentioned was Ann Arbor, Michigan.…
Unofficial South Park Characters Take Aim At Google
Google is a BIG company now (some might forget this) and and I’m sure they’re more than capable of handling a poke (some might…
Hey Dude, Yahoo Wants You To Dig It, Tag It, and Share It!
The Yahoo team in Sunnyvale has filed for a new trademark/service mark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that hits on tagging and…
Google Registered Domain Name List Updated
A note to let you know that I’ve updated our non-comprehensive but nevertheless lengthy list of domains registered to Google Inc. today with several…
Sergey Brin: The Video Lecture
Several weeks ago Danny blogged about Professor Marti Hearst’s “awesome” UC Berkeley class featuring many presentations by some of the biggest names in the…
Schmidt Talks To Advertisers, Mentions 300 Year Timeframe (again) Before Google Makes it “All” Searchable
Google’s top exec team is hitting the road. At Web 2.0, Google’s, Omid Kordestani, chatted with JB. Today, Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, spoke at…
Finding “Patterns” in Your Face
Spotted on Searchblog and elsewhere, news that Google demonstrated a tool at Web 2.0 today that uses pattern recognition to determine sex in photos.…
A Free General Reference Newsletter (Fun Too!)
I thought I would toss out an FFU (free, fun, useful) monthly newsletter. This newsletter is provided by The World Almanac and Book of…
How Many Feeds Really Matter: Part 2, New Numbers from the Bloglines Database
Today at Web 2.0, Jim Lanzone, Senior Vice President of Search Properties at Ask Jeeves, updated his “What Feeds Matter” blog post from July…
ad:tech – Your Cred Is Slipping!
Jeez, guys – get it together! ad:tech is burgeoning in size and global reach as the online advertising industry’s all-encompassing (and theoretically, all-knowing) mega-conference.…
Daily SearchCast, Oct. 7, 2005: Barry Diller Talks Search, Google Comes to D.C., A Look at an Engineering Search Vertical, Top Search Ranking Factors & More!
Today’s search podcast covers applying to be in the MSN adCenter pilot, a list of top search ranking factors to consider, unscrupulous web hosting…