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MSN’s Developer Center is Now Live
The web developer community will be interested to learn that the MSN Developer Center (Danny provided an overview of last week), is now live.…
Mobile Search Done By Few, But Still Popular Mobile Internet Activity Overall
How’s search as a mobile internet activity? The Utilitarian Life of the Mobile Internet at ClickZ cites stats saying it’s the third ranked category…
Sun Research Developing Audio Search Tools
Several months ago I blogged about an audio search research project at Sun Labs called, Search Inside the Music. Recently, Search Firms: Google, Yahoo…
Ask Wants Anti-Spyware Companies To Lift Warnings
Spotted via Threadwatch, Ask Jeeves Disputes Anti-Spyware Flaggings from eWeek looks at Ask Jeeves asking at least two anti-spyware companies to stop flagging Ask’s…
Community-Built Wikipedia’s Strengths & Weaknesses
Everybody helps write Wikipedia from the Richmond Times Dispatch is a nice overview on how Wikipedia is assembled by a community, a strength in…
Gmail Interface Now Available in 38 Languages, 9 New Interfaces Just Added
A note on the Gmail “What’s New” page alerts us to the fact that Gmail is now available in nine more languages. That makes…
Yahoo Hires Journalist As Media Company Begins Producing Its Own Media
Chat From the War Zone from the Los Angeles Times looks at Yahoo’s recent hiring of journalist Kevin Sites and how it marks a…
Geico To Competitors & Affiliates: Don’t Buy Our Name!
Geico Warns Competitors About Search Engine Ads from AdAge covers how Geico is warning competitors not to buy its name on Google or other…
Fathom Launches Online Marketing Analytics Tool
Fathom Breaks Into Analytics from ClickZ covers Fathom Online offering a new tool to give advertisers and agencies a “dashboard” to analyze marketing campaigns…
More On Memeorandum
Further to my earlier post on the new Memeorandum blog and news service, I heard back from creator Gabe Rivera on whether keyword search…
Challenges Microsoft Faces
Microsoft’s Midlife Crisis from Forbes looks at challenges ahead for Microsoft as sales for the first time show less than double-digit growth and threats…
Looking At Google Bombs, But Not Very Well
Spotted via Phil Bradley, Deconstructing Google bombs from First Monday tries to analyze two link bombs to determine how much they are a result…
New Memeorandum Great Blend Of Top Blog & News Material
New site Memeorandum provides a Google News-like clustering of news stories and blog commentary on various topics. So far, it looks pretty clean and…
Google Katrina Search For Missing People & Info
Google Hurricane Katrina Search is a new service from Google that allows you to do two things — search for people who may be…
Emmys Go Interactive
Who said iTV wasn’t mainstream? The International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (the international chapter of the group that brings you the Emmys),…
Will GMail Be Taken to Court?
According to a Times Online article: New legal threat to Google over GMail, a UK company is considering taking Google to court over the…
On Designing a New Yahoo Home Page
Via Geeking With Greg, an interesting BusinessWeek interview titled: Building Yahoo’s New Front Door, with Larry Tesler, the UI design guru who joined Yahoo…
Scott Rafer Says Goodbye To Feedster
In a blog post titled, Becoming a Feedster Alum, Scott Rafer announces that he has has left his position as the person in charge…
Let’s Talk Froogle: Q&A With Marketing Manager
Brian Smith, editor of ComparisonEngines.com, has just posted a brief Q&A interview with Debbie Jaffe, Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Google, about Froogle. You’ll…
Looking for Katrina Images On Google & Yahoo
Over the weekend I went searching for Hurricane Katrina imagery in the Google Images and Yahoo Images databases. It’s been two weeks since the…