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Try WSFinder To Find Web Services & APIs
Trying to track down which company is offering an API these days? The new WSFinder service is a search service / wiki that allows…
WebPosition 4 Released
Long-time rank checking and page analysis tool WebPosition is out now as WebPosition 4. Haven’t seen any reviews yet, from the company press release,…
New Katrina Missing Persons Meta Search Site & Spidering Issues With Red Cross Site
Katrina Search is another new service designed to let you meta search from a variety of web sites that have information about people missing…
Tara Gives Thumbs Up To Yahoo Images; Yotophoto For Copyright Free Images
Contemplating Yahoo Images and Google Images is a short item from Tara over at ResearchBuzz finding that in a search for [rss buttons], less…
Ask Jeeves CEO: We Rock, & Will Only Get Better
Many people wondered what fate would befall Ask Jeeves once it was subsumed into Barry Diller’s sprawling InterActive Corp online empire. Would the search…
Google Force One For The Google Guys?
We’ve known from earlier reports that Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have thought owning a corporate jet would be pretty cool. Now…
Ask Jeeves CEO: “We Are Focused on Core Search”
Now that Ask Jeeves is part of aggressive online powerhouse InterActive Corp., what's next for the search engine and its various services? Search Engine…
Daily SearchCast, Sept. 9, 2005: Google Hires Internet Pioneer Vint Cert; Google Dance Vs. Google Update; New Way To Count All Pages In Google; MSN Releasing Developer APIs; Checking Up On Charities & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google hiring internet pioneer Vint Cerf as its chief internet evangelist, defining what a Google "update" is if it’s not…
How To Get “Unsafe” Results At Google & Yahoo
Google UnSafeSearch and Yahoo UnSafeSearch are ways billed to find content that both search engines DO NOT consider safe for family-friendly viewing. They work…
Yahoo Says It Must Follow Chinese Laws On Giving Info
Yahoo says it must abide China law from Reuters has Yahoo neither confirming or denying it provided email details that helped Chinese authorities jail…
New Technique To Count All Pages In Google Index, Sort Of
Further to my previous post on the Google index update/size increase, there appears to be a new way to count all the pages within…
Google’s Cutts Says Not An Update – I Say An Update, Just Not A Dance
Matt Cutts from Google weighs in on whether the changes people are seeing at Google right now constitute an update. He says no. I…
New MSN APIs To Be Offered
MSN is to offer series of APIs for MSN Search, MSN Virtual Earth, MSN Messenger and MapPoint for developers who wish to tap into…
Search Forums Roundup: Sep. 9, 2005
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: What’s Your…
Daily SearchCast, Sept. 8, 2005: Will Anti-Slapp Stop Traffic Power Suit? Are Larry & Sergey Most Powerful? Is Google Getting Bigger? Are You An Algoholic? How Can You Tunnel The Earth Via Google Maps? & More!
Today’s search podcast covers whether an anti-Slapp motion could quash the Traffic Power suit against SEO Book, a ruling to come next week in…
Resources For Researching Quality Of Charities
At a time when many people want to give to charties after Hurricane Katrina, ResourceShelf (AKA Gary’s other blog) has a very timely rundown…
Squeezing The Search Engine Loaf For Freshness
Phil Bradley points to this research paper, The Freshness Of Web Search Engines’ Databases (PDF), out of Heinrich-Heine-University in Dusseldorf that analyzed the freshness…
Ask Jeeves Offers Smart Search Box with Hurricane Katrina Info
I just noticed that Ask Jeeves is now offering a Smart Search answer, located at the very top of the web results page, when…
Google Hires Vint Cerf As Chief Internet Evangelist
Google has hired internet "founding father" and pioneer Vint Cerf to be the company’s first "chief internet evangelist." His job seems to be to…
Need A Laugh? Try This Search News “Quiz”
I wrote earlier of a new SEO quiz, but the over 40 questions are too much work for you, try The Gray Hat News…