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Stats: Time Spent With Various Yahoo and Google Services
Bambi Francisco’s article: Why Google may need instant messaging offers a bunch of new and interesting stats from Majestic Research about Yahoo Mail, Yahoo…
Ask Jeeves Will Cut Number of Paid Listings on Web Results Pages
Ask Jeeves plans to reduce the number of paid links on a search results page from about ten to two or three. Both the…
Daily SearchCast, Aug. 2, 2005: New Ask Paid Listings Program, Flickr Enhancements, How Different Search Engins Have Different Results & More
Today’s Daily SearchCast (Gary’s debut) covers the new paid search listings program from Ask Jeeves, word of JupiterMedia selling Search Engine Watch and Search…
Report: Yahoo’s Ad Network for Small Publishers Will Launch Tomorrow
A “source” has told Stefanie Olsen at News.com that Yahoo will finally launch its contextual ad network for small publishers and bloggers tomorrow. Like…
Yahoo Shopping API Now Available
News from the Yahoo Developer Network today that they’ve just released an API for Yahoo Shopping. Details and documentation are posted here. With the…
Search Engine Watch, SES Shows Sold By Jupitermedia
Just announced, our parent company Jupitermedia is selling its ClickZ network — of which Search Engine Watch is part of — and the Search…
Look For Session Summaries from SES 2005 San Jose in the SEW Forums
Many people depend on SEW Forums Moderator RustyBrick (aka Barry Schwartz) for comprehensive summaries of Search Engine Strategies sessions and this time around will…
Read All About PPC Search Marketing
A new book from Boris and Eugene Mordkovich offers a comprehensive look at all aspects of pay-per-click search advertising. The Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Marketing…
Is Google Planning to Open an Office in Russia?
Like I said yesterday, hardly a week goes by without hearing about potential new locations for Google offices and research facilities. Today, The Moscow…
Search Engines Differ More than You Think
It’s easy to think of search engines as black boxes that are essentially all alike, with Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search all…
Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge
A new study suggests that the overlap between search engine results is less than it was even a few months ago, and that the…
Yahoo’s Flickr Adds New Features
Users of Yahoo’s Flickr photo sharing/search service might be interested in learning that two new features have just been introduced. First, say hello to…
Listen Live: Jeff Weiner, Yahoo’s SVP of Search, Speaks!
While many of us are at SES next Monday (August 8, 2005), Jeff Weiner will be talking Yahoo Search at the Pacific Crest Technology…
Google’s First Venture into Television Goes Live
In April, we posted a story about Google partnering with CurrentTV (the “hip” new tv channel chaired by Al Gore (-:) to provide search…
July 2005 Search News Recap Posted
The latest edition of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now online, recapping tops stories in search from the past month. You can…
Yahoo Files For Several Patents
SEW will regularly feature newly awarded search-related patents and just published patent apps, beginning with a look at Yahoo.
Shari Thurow Chats Shopping Search with Become.com’s Jon Glick
In the first part of a two part interview, Shari Thurow chats with search industry veteran (Yahoo, AltaVista) Jon Glick, presently the Senior Director…
Baidu.com Gets Ready For IPO
Although a specific date hasn’t been set yet, stories about Chinese web search engine Baidu.com, and its upcoming IPO continue to appear. The AP’s…
Local Paper Profiles InsiderPages.com
The Whittier (CA) Daily News article: Web search engine finds niche in local advertising, provides a profile of local search/social networking tool, InsiderPages.com. Like…
Revisiting Hijacking & Redirects: Moving To A Solution
Cast your mind back to May, when I wrote about the Google AdSense page getting “hijacked” by another site for searches on adsense and…