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Daily SearchCast, Aug. 19, 2005: Mamma Loves Copernic, iVillage Loves Yahoo Ads, Cuban Hates Google Blog Spam & A 3rd Ad Atop Google Results
Today’s search podcast covers Mamma seeking again to buy Copernic, Mark Cuban threatening to ban Google-hosted blogs because of spam, Yahoo winning iVillage away…
MSN Virtual Earth: The Video
The folks at MSN Virtual Earth have publicly released this very funny video clip that has the MSN Butterfly (as portrayed by Steve Lombardi,…
Search and IR Focus of New Forbes E-Gangs List
Forbes is out with their 2005 “E-Gangs” list of important people in the “e” world. This years list is subtitled: Eight Masters Of Information,…
Jeeves “Beams Up” Special Logo to Honor Creator of Star Trek
To honor the birth of Star Trek creator, Gene Rodenberry, Mr. Jeeves “beams up” a special logo today.
More Testing Of Middle Of The Page Query Refinement At Google
The Googleplex is playing with its search results again. Out is the "Dissatisfied" query refinement we wrote about earlier this month. In is, well,…
4INFO Releases Directory of Mobile Web Sites
4INFO, a company we’ve mentioned on the blog several times, that provides both SMS and mobile web search services, has just unveiled a new…
New Version of Yahoo Toolbar for IE Released, Offers Access to YQ
Over on the Yahoo Search Blog, YQ developer and guru, Reiner Kraft, posts that a new version of the Yahoo Toolbar for Internet Explorer…
Search Forums Roundup: Aug. 19, 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: Details On…
Cuban Vows to Stomp Out Blog Spam
Mark Cuban is mad that blog spam is causing bad results at Ice Rocket, the blog/web engine he owns. So, Cuban has vowed he’s…
Daily SearchCast, Aug. 18, 2005: New Google & Yahoo Ad Systems, Google Raising Cash
Today’s search podcast covers Yahoo planning a new paid listings system, Google’s new AdWords ranking system going live, Google looking to raise $4 billion…
Small Business Owner Says He Lost $500,000 Due to Click Fraud
Adam Penenberg’s Wired article Click Fraud Claims Drive Lawsuits, provides another example of a small business owner who says his company lost big bucks…
Shopzilla Chairman Chats Shopping Search
Brian Smith over at ComparisonEngines.com is continuing his series of interviews with shopping engines execs. This time around, Brian chats with Farhad Mohit, the…
Copernic Still Wants Their Mamma.com
Clickz is reporting that the deal that has Mamma.com acquiring desktop/enterprise search provider, Copernic.com, is back on. Mamma.com’s plans to acquire Copernic were first…
iVillage Dumps Google for Yahoo
Media Post’s: Google Out, Yahoo! In At iVillage, reports that the popular portal aimed for women will soon move from Google to Yahoo to…
Google Now Going With 3 Ads Up Top, In The Right Circumstances
Google Testing 3 Ads Above Search Results? in our SEW Forums has a screenshot of Google showing three ads, rather than the occasional max…
Track Your AdSense Earnings in Firefox Status Bar
Here’s one for AdSense customer who uses Firefox. Google Blogoscoped points to the Adsense Notifier extension that allows you to track your AdSense earnings…
What’s The Weather? Ways To Search!
Weather remains the universally safe subject to start a conversation with. Well, unless you want to debate global warming! Need weather information for conversation?…
New Google AdWords Bidding System Live For All
The new Google AdWords system allowing advertisers to target terms that previously might have been disabled, along with new minimum bids and a “quality…
Google To Sell $4 Billion In Shares
Google Files to Sell 14.2 Million Shares from the AP covers how Google is to float more shares to raise money for "general corporate…
Thumbs Up For Search Engine Marketing, Inc. Book
A Business Case for SEM from PJ Fusco at ClickZ looks at the new Search Engine Marketing, Inc. book from Mike Moran and Bill…