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Infospace & Seekport Announce Partnership as InfoSpace President Leaves Company
Netimperative reports that European engine Seekport and Infospace will partner. The partnership will have Infospace providing paid listings on Seekport results pages. This has…
Preview New Saved Searches & Clip Feature At AOL Search
While I was looking at the AOL Search home page this afternoon, I noticed some text (near the bottom the page) that invited me…
Listings Hijacked At MSN, With A Little Help From Google
Google 302 and MSN from Dave Naylor is chock full of badness on the parts of both Google and MSN, showing how Google redirections…
MSN Search MyCroft Plugin Now Available for Firefox
If you’re a Firefox user who wants to have easier access to the MSN Search database, a post on MSN Search’s WebLog points out…
Tax Assessor Wants Google To Pay Property Taxes Even Though New Facility Will Be on Federal Land
We’ve blogged several items about the new Googleplex and Google/NASA relationship that’s we be built on NASA Ames property in Mountain View. One story…
Broadband Adoption in U.S. Homes Continues to Increase
Some new numbers just released from Nielsen//NetRatings report that the adoption of broadband in U.S. homes continues to increase. According to Nielsen//NetRatings the number…
SEO Still A Low Priority for Many Marketers When Compared with Paid Search
A brief Media Daily article titled: Marketers Slow To Embrace Optimization, Say Search Experts, reports on a panel of heavy hitters that took place…
New Patent Apps from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft
If your the type who enjoys reviewing newly published patent applications, Barry over at Search Engine Roundtable lists a bunch of newly published apps…
Don’t Overlook B2B Search Engines for Search Marketing Opportunities
Sites specializing in business-to-business search may seem like fallow fields for search marketing efforts, but in fact the opposite is true. Business verticals can…
AltaVista’s Former Engineering Director At Microsoft
AltaVista’s former director of engineering Don Dodge turns up now working at Microsoft. Robert Scoble talks with him a bit about the old days…
And Debunking Urban SEO Myths!
Speaking of debunking urban myths, how about those of the SEO world? I just posted about a list of things that may (or may…
Debunking Urban Myths
Did you hear about the killer dolphins that got loose from a naval facility in the wake of Hurricane Katrina? Apparently, an urban myth.…
Google WiFi In New York’s Bryant Park
Google Wi-Fi in NYC, spotted via Russell Shaw, shows Google backing wifi in New York’s Bryant Park. Another stepping stone down the GoogleNet path?…
Google House Ads In AdSense On Non-Google Sites
I wrote earlier of issues some have with Google running house ads for its own products in Google search results. Selling Their Own Dog…
Rundown On Search Ranking Factors
Search rankings aren’t all about PageRank. Even Google will tell you they have many, many “signals” that are measured to rank a page. The…
Google Partners With NASA For Expansion Space, Space Data & Supercomputing Talent
Google, NASA sign `a very big deal’ from the San Jose Mercury News gives the rundown on the aforementioned plans by Google to expand…
Meet The B2B Search Engines
One of the top trends highlighted at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose was the growing importance of vertical search, and one…
Yahoo Site Explorer Live: New Way To See All Your Pages, Links
Yahoo Site Explorer is now reality. It will show you all pages within a domain, within a particular directory of a domain, all inbound…
A List of Domain Names Registered by Google
I’m a list fanatic. Many years ago, I started compiling a web-based lists of lists while I worked as a librarian at George Washington…
A Google Calendar and Some Domain Name Research
As someone who watches Google domain names closely, I learned about this post on the Google Addiction Blog that points out that GCalendar.com (an…