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Execs from SideStep and PriceRunner Interviewed
After taking a week to relax, Brian Smith at ComparisonEngines.com is back posting interviews with leaders from comparison shopping services. This week, Brian has…
More SMS Services Coming from Google
I was checking out the new service (U.S. only) that allows anyone with SMS access to sign-up for a Gmail account and noticed that…
Yahoo (Initially) Beats Google For More Relevant Listings For Google Talk
In a post titled: Searching for Google Talk on currybet.net, Martin Belam reports on a quick test he ran yesterday when he went looking…
New Carat Search Head
Pamela Parker’s article: Carat Names Search Head After Belanger’s Departure, reports that the agency will unify search and affiliate marketing practices under its new…
Yahoo Bulk Submit Now Live
Gary wrote earlier that part of the new Yahoo Site Explorer (placeholder page for now) service to come is a new bulk submit option…
Yahoo’s Ad Management System Down Or Sluggish For Some, After Upgrade
More woes for Yahoo Search Marketing’s account system. Yahoo! Search On The Fritz After System Upgrade from MediaPost looks briefly at how some firms…
AOL News Joins the Big League of News Search Engines
AOL News has quietly and quickly sprinted into place as a leading news search engine, joining Yahoo News, Google News and Topix.net as a…
Daily SearchCast, Aug. 24, 2005: Google Talk Instant Messaging Service, Google As The New Microsoft, Yahoo’s Video Search Plans And More
Today’s search podcast covers the new Google Talk instant messaging and voice chat client, a New York Times-look at whether Google is Microsoft like…
O’Reilly In Debate Over Link Selling
I wrote back in April about how the sale of off-topic links to advertisers looking for search ranking boosts had become well seated within…
Copyright Material Still Showing Up In Google Video
When Google Video first launched viewable content in June, we posted (as did many others) about viewable copyrighted material that was quickly found in…
Automatically Classifying the Mood of Blog Posts
Here’s one for your reading list. Hardly a week goes by that we don’t read about new services that use blogs and the blogosphere…
Identity Theft & Issues For Search Engines
Search Engines Find Stolen Identities from Information Week dares to go into the issue of how search engines can reveal personal details about people…
Image Databases to Find “Visually Similar” Imagery and More
Some image search news and tools that you might have missed. Image search provider, Cydral (based in Paris, France), has released a new version…
The Polarization Of Search Forums?
The First SEO Republic Forumed from Jim Hedger at Search Engine Guide looks at the idea of search engine forums shaping up as an…
Google As The New Evil Microsoft
I wrote back in May that Google was coming under more and more attacks from those who see it as Microsoft-like, but that this…
Your Job vs. The Algorithm
Our inimitable columnist Sean Carton found what may be the best-ever example of Web marketing gone horribly, horribly wrong. He shared it with bOING…
Yahoo Video: The “Super” Network
The September issue of Wired is out and it features a very positive article about Yahoo’s video search efforts focusing on the development of…
Feed URLs To Change As We Move To FeedBurner
Later today, we’re changing the URLs for our Search Engine Watch Blog, podcast and other search feeds so that we can better track who…
More On The Index Size Debate
I wrote earlier of the dispute over index size between Google and Yahoo in my Screw Size! I Dare Google & Yahoo To Report…
Google Launches “Google Talk” IM Client With Voice Calls
No longer rumor, the Google Talk instant messaging service from Google debuted today. Got a Gmail account? Then you can begin instant messaging via…