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Google Names Princeton President Shirley Tilghman To Board
News from Google that it has appointed a new member of its board of directors, Shirley M. Tilghman, president of Princeton University and professor…
AOL Bolsters Web Search
AOL has rolled out a number of new features on its search.aol.com service. Although AOL search is powered by Google, it has a very…
On Library Card Catalogs, OPACs, The Perfect Search & Teaching Searchers
My mind is going a million miles a minute over the whole “Perfect Search” discussion that kicked off this week. Instead of getting it…
Pimp My Searching: Internet Movie Database
Danny mentioned yesterday we’ve been planning a “Pimp My Search Engine” series to help readers get more out of their favorite search engines. Well,…
New Features at AOL Search
AOL continues to improve its web search capabilities, today adding a number of new features designed to appeal to casual searchers and power users…
Search Engine Employees Appear on Technology Innovators Under 35 List
I was reviewing the new Technology Review list of top innovators under the age of 35 (the TR35) and came across three names in…
Sun To Distribute Google Toolbar & Closer Relationship Beween Two; McNealy Says, “Lots of Money Flowing Both Ways if We Do This Right”
The Google and Sun Microsystems press conference is over and word is that Google and Sun have announced a “multiyear” strategic relationship for Google…
Shopping Engine Become.com Plans Move Into Japanese Market
Word in this Red Herring report that Michael Yang and the shopping research/comparison shopping engine, Become.com has plans to expanded into the Japanese search…
September 2005 Search News Recap Posted
The latest edition of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now online, recapping tops stories in search from the past month. You can…
Yahoo Blog/Feed Search Coming
We had an unplanned glimpse of Yahoo’s blog search in July, and now it looks like the service is going to formally emerge. Spotted…
Google Seeks Sales Team For Payment Solution — Also, Google Job Openings in the OC
We know that Google has plans in the online payment business (Google Wallet?, something else?). Today, I noticed that Google is now advertising positions…
Mastering Google AdWords
Google likes everyone to believe that using AdWords is a snap, requiring no more than five minutes and a credit card to get going.…
More On Query Refinement, The Human Scale Problem & Creating The Search Dialog
Yesterday, I wrote of how search engines could do a better job of query refinement and indeed did so in the past, especially because…
Apple Europe Crackdown On Google Ads?
Spotted via Steve Rubel, Apple Cracks Down on Google AdWords at TidBITS suggests that Apple may be pushing on Google to enforce rules preventing…
SEO Big With Small & Medium Sized Businesses
No Guesswork Here: Web Sites Work For SMBs at InternetNews.com has a few search stat tidbits worth noting. A survey has found that among…
BodyBuilding.com Builds $48 Million In Sales Off Natural Search
Via Gary Stein, How BodyBuilding.com pumps up sales by word of mouth marketing from Internet Retailer looks at how BodyBuilding.com expects to make web…
Google’s Many Projects & Interests
With rumors that Google might be teaming with Sun to push OpenOffice, Google morphs into multifaceted juggernaut from the Associated Press is a nice…
Taiwan Not Happy With Being A Chinese “Province” In Google Maps
Via SEO Book, Taiwan tells Google it is not a China province from Reuters has Taiwan asking Google to stop calling it "Taiwan, Province…
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Google AdWords
Andrew Goodman is one of the foremost authorities on search advertising in the world, and his new book is a killer guide to succeeding…
Google Not Alone In Desire to Build San Francisco Wi-Fi Network
In my post about Google filing a proposal to provide free Wi-Fi access throughout San Francisco, I tried to make it clear that Google…