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Search Engine Roundtable’s Barry Schwartz Proposes Via Ask Jeeves Search Results
Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable is getting married. He proposed to his girlfriend by getting her to type her name into Ask Jeeves,…
A New Alternative to Google Print
The Open Content Alliance is launching today, with plans to make thousands of books, multimedia files and other materials freely searchable and accessible and…
A New Digital Library Alliance Makes its Debut
Yahoo, The Internet Archive and several other organizations announced the formation of the Open Content Alliance to make thousands of books, multimedia files and…
Google Bidding To Provide Free Wi-Fi To San Francisco
Google has joined the competition along with 11 other companies including as Earthlink to provide San Francisco residents and visitors with free wi-fi. San…
Ask Jeeves Smart Search Makes Basic TV Program Reference Info a Click Away
When Ask Jeeves (aka Ask.com) launched a slew of new Smart Search options in August I briefly mentioned that info about tv programs was…
How About Custom Search Tabs From Google & Yahoo
When running a Google web search from the Google home page or the Google Personalized home page, you can quickly rerun your search (no…
Add an A9 Customizable Search Box to Any Web Site
The A9 team has posted a new page with info and code to add customizable A9 search boxes to any web site. Currently available…
Google’s “Playable Video” Search Option Disappears
Do you remember a Google Blog post from mid-July where Google Video’s, Matthew Vosburgh, announced that two “radio buttons” were available allowing a searcher…
Yahoo Testing Mobile Search Ads In Japan & Britain
Bloomberg News reports that Yahoo is testing paid ads on search result pages delivered to mobile phones and devices in Japan while also auctioning…
Clusty Celebrates Its First Birthday
It was a year ago today when Chris and I published our introduction to Vivisimo’s new metasearch/dynamic clustering product for the consumer market named…
Google Promotes Site-Targeted Advertising With Landing Page Test
Pam Parker’s: Google Tests ‘Advertise’ Link, Landing Page, reports on another test at Google. This time, viewers of Google advertising on “select” Google Network…
Google Plans AdWords Commercial Developer Program
Google will soon be offering enhanced access to its AdWords API, along with membership in a newly formed AdWords Developer Council, to commercial developers…
Local Matters Goes After Local Search Tech Market
The eWeek article, MapQuest Founder Chases Local Search Crown, offers a look at a new local search technology player, Local Matters, and its founder…
Listen Online: Search Execs and Others Speak During Advertising Week 2005
I’m not sure how much longer (my suggestion, head to the site soon) these presentations from Advertising Week 2005 (it ends today) will be…
MTV VMA Results
Rafat over at PaidContent.org is reporting that MTV’s video music awards generated 13 million unique streams since the original event. We wrote about the…
Trying to Find the Mobile Searcher
Ben Charny’s eWeek article: Mobile Search Struggles to Find an Audience, reports on why some say that mobile search is having problems finding users.…
Feedster Plans Self-Serve RSS Ad Program
According to a Media Daily News article: Feedster to Release New RSS Ad Product, placing advertising in Feedster RSS feeds will become even easier…
MSN Shopping Adds Search Refinements for Hundreds of Product Categories
Just up on the MSN Shopping Insider is a post about some new and useful features that have gone live at MSN Shopping. Now,…
Daily SearchCast, Sept. 29, 2005: Google Partners With NASA, Google Calendar Coming?, Who Pays For Google’s House Ads, SEO Ranking Factors, Debunking Urban Myths, Roll Your Own Search Engine & More!
Today’s search podcast covers more on Google’s partnership with NASA for office space and data, more signs of a potential Google Calendar, whether site…
Search Pulling From Banner Ad Spend
An article in New Media Age UK titled: Long-time advertisers are abandoning banner ads in favour of search, includes comments about how firms that…