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Yahoo Readying New Paid Listings System
Yahoo plans a new paid listings system for next year that will allow advertisers to have multiple creatives, rankings based on a more Google-like…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Aug 18, 2005
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Google Enhances Mobile Version of Froogle, Launches Service in the UK
Google engineer, Josh Redstone, posts to the Google Blog that they’ve made some improvements to the mobile web version of Froogle including the ability…
Daily SearchCast, Aug. 17, 2005: Yahoo Local Upgrades, Finding Classified Ads, Yahoo & Google Tie In Satisfaction And More
Today’s search podcast covers Yahoo Local getting enhanced with new city data and user reviews, using Oodle to find classifed from across the web,…
Google Increases Size A Smidge: Was Planned Before Current Size Dispute
Last week, prior to the Yahoo index size announcement, we were notified that Google was planning to increase the size of their web index.…
Automating the Mining of the Deep Web
Mike Bazeley’s article: Diving deep into the Web, profiles a Bay Area start-up named Glenbrook Networks that is developing technology to crawl material that’s…
Battelle Excerpt: Google Goes Public
Second Book Excerpt: Google Goes Public is the latest excerpt from The Search that John Battelle has posted on his blog, from his forthcoming…
Using Brackets To Illustrate Queries
How to write queries from Google software engineer Matt Cutts is a nice look at how Googlers internally represent queries, so that everyone knows…
Kai Fu Lee: Following His Heart To The Miracle Of Google
Kai Fu Lee: I need to follow my heart from ZDNet is a continuation of the Microsoft-Google fight over Kai Fu Lee, the in…
Yahoo Virtually Tied With Google On Customer Satisfaction
I wrote earlier of wanting relevancy figures. In lieu of that, how about some customer satisfaction figures? Yahoo! Gains On Google In Customer Satisfaction…
Oodle For Local Classified Listings
We’ve been remiss in not having written of Oodle before, a relatively new search engine for local classified listings. Oodle scans the web to…
Yahoo Local Expands With City Pages & More User Reviews
Yahoo Local has expanded with new city and neighborhood pages, along with increased display of maps and use of community reviews. Yahoo features custom…
Google Acquires Android Mobile Phone Software Start-Up
Google Buys Android for Its Mobile Arsenal from Ben Elgin over at BusinessWeek covers Google having quietly acquired Android Inc, a 22-month-old start up…
Search Marketing VP Ron Belanger Departs Carat Interactive
Carat’s Top Search Exec Departs from ClickZ covers how long time search marketer Ron Belanger, vice president of search marketing at Carat Interactive, has…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Aug 17, 2005
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
The Search Engine Update – Number 203 – Aug. 17, 2005
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the first half of August 2005.
Daily SearchCast, Aug. 16, 2005: Yahoo & Miva Settle Patent Dispute, Paid Listings Program At Ask Opens Formally, Index Size Wars & More
Today’s search podcast covers Yahoo and Miva settling over a patent dispute about paid listings, the formal opening of the Ask Jeeves sponsored listings…
Google Unveils AdSense Blog
A post on Search Engine Roundtable and JenSense points out that Google’s Inside AdSense blog is now online. It joins “Inside AdWords” blog as…
Google Registers “Movie” Related Domains
For you who track newly registered domains from Google, here are two more for your list. Sometimes, new domains can signal new services in…
MSN Search Ranking Its Own Results
I’m sure it’s happened to other search engines in the past, but MSN Indexes Ask Jeeves over at our SEW Forums looks at how…