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Google Brings Film Showtimes and Reviews Service to the UK
Google has just introduced their film showtime and review service on the Google UK site. It operates just like the U.S. film info service…
Google Expanding Consumer Ads With European Campaign; MSN Does Product Placement
Please, no more articles about how Google has relied on word of mouth to promote its brand. Those days have been gone for several…
Yahoo Apologizes For Ad Management Problems; Issues Case-By-Case Refunds
I wrote last week about how a weekend upgrade to Yahoo’s ad management system went awry, making things sluggish or keeping some advertisers locked…
Google Losing Consistency As It Continues To Experiment With Results
More experimenting by Google, this time Google Groups results appearing at the bottom of search results pages. More important, it’s getting seriously annoying that…
New Parodies: Google Meets South Park, Plans To Destroy Information & More
A five-fer on the Google parodies front for you today, a sure sign that its the summer holiday period and people have too much…
MSN Search Gains New Feed Searching Commands
MSN Searches RSS Deeper from Robin Good looks at how MSN Search now has two new undocumented feed searching commands, including the ability to…
Google Selling Print Ads
About two years ago, I spoke with a Google executive about the idea that they might move into print ads. Rather than an outright…
France To Fund European Search Engine; Replay Of Boeing-Airbus In The Search World?
Reading my copy of the Daily Telegraph today, I came across news that French President Jacques Chirac has pledged funding a new European search…
Searching for Relevant RSS Feeds
RSS feeds are becoming ubiquitous, though ironically good content isn’t always easy to find. None of he major search engines have yet to launch…
RSS Search Engines
Part two of our series on RSS takes a look at the specialized search tools that help you locate content in blogs, feeds and…
Where Did Google Talk Come From?
Where did Google Talk come from? Not far from Microsoft, literally. According to brief item in the Seattle Times much of the work was…
Take that, Firefox
Firefox isn’t the only browser brand that knows how to harness a viral community. In honor of its tenth birthday, Opera hosted an online…
Google Print Goes International
Back in June, I blogged about Google finally offering an interface to search only Google Print material. Today, Google announced that they’re continuing to…
Daily SearchCast, Aug. 30, 2005: MSN Tests New Home Page, Watching For AOL Beta, Google Being Into Everything & More
Today’s search podcast covers MSN testing a new home page, AOL rising as a news search player, keeping an eye on AOL betas, Google…
Why Don’t Book Publishers Object To Web Indexing?
Gary posted earlier about the latest publisher’s group to object to Google’s digital library program. As I’ve posted earlier, I’ve found some of the…
SEO Book’s Aaron Wall Sued By Traffic-Power Over Revealing “Trade Secrets”
Back in June, I heard from Aaron Wall of the SEO Book blog. He’d been served with a cease-and-desist letter from SEO company Traffic-Power.com…
Goin’ Mobile with Google Sitemaps
Word just up on the Google Blog that an extension for Google Sitemaps is now available that allows webmasters to submit content for inclusion…
Enhancements Made to Yahoo Mail Search
I’ve been a Yahoo Mail user for several years and have had no problems using the basic search tool that has always been available…
RSS, Blogs and Feeds Week
This week, SearchDay is focused on RSS, blogs and feeds. In today’s SearchDay article, What is RSS, and Why Should You Care?, I attempt…
What is RSS, and Why Should You Care?
This week, SearchDay takes a close look at RSS, a web publishing format that's transforming information delivery for both publishers and users.