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The Week in Viral: Marg(ar)inal
A viral try from I Cant Believe It’s Not Butter got some love (registration) from Stuart Elliott of The Times this week, and for…
San Edinburgh & Other AdWords Documentation Bloopers
AdWords Bloopers! over in our SEW Forums is a short but funny look at a few errors that crept into Google’s AdWords documentation when…
Microsoft Gets Temporary Restraining Order in Google Case
A Washington State Superior Court judge issued a temporary restraining order today barring Dr. Kai-Fu Lee from performing his duties as the recently appointed…
Daily SearchCast, July 28, 2005
Today’s edition of The Daily SearchCast is now available (MP3 file). In it, I did a rundown of the past day’s search news accompanied…
The SEW Forums & SES San Jose 2005
Our Search Engine Watch Forums just turned a year old last month, and SES along with other search-related events has a home there, the…
Copyright & Trademarks – SES San Jose 2005
I love the legal aspects of search. It’s intriguing to see how old laws are applied to this new medium, sometimes usefully, sometimes showing…
A Look at Search Interface Protocols and Specifications
Developers and other search geeks out there might find this draft document that lists and discusses a number of search interface protocols and specifications…
Spanish Language Search Marketing Tactics – SES San Jose 2005
We’ve done sessions on targeting the Hispanic and Latino market for some time, to try and help search marketers understand this important audience they…
Google Ads, a Feud, and a Barren Rock
Stories from the Canadian Press and Reuters report about how ads on Google are coming into play in a an argument betweeen Canada and…
Yahoo Research Labs Releases Redesigned Site
It’s quite the busy day at the Yahoo Research Labs (YRL). First, news that Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan is joining Yahoo to run the YRL.…
Yahoo Yammys To Honor Online Video Through Contest
Yahoo wants to drum up interest in its Yahoo Video search service, so it’s handing out "Yammys" to recognize what it thinks is the…
Official: Google & Univision Partner
We wrote last month about how there was a partnership coming between Google and Spanish-language broadcaster Univision coming. In fact, it was visible to…
And More On Search Hiring!
At the end of my post about Yahoo raiding IBM for employees, I originally concluded, "Where have all the engineers gone? Off to Google,…
Battelle On The Birth Of Google
The Birth of Google at Wired, spotted via Google Blogoscoped, has John Battelle recounting how Google came to be. Larry Page and Sergey Brin…
Daily SearchCast, July 27, 2005
The first edition of The Daily SearchCast is now available (MP3 file). In it, I did a rundown of the past day’s search news…
Yahoo Hiring From IBM
We don’t need no stinkin’ Microsoft execs like Google, says Yahoo. We’ll rob IBM! Yahoo Is Wooing I.B.M. Technical Talent from the New York…
Yahoo Partners With ITV & Rounding Up TV Search Partners In The UK
News from Yahoo that ITV — on of the UK’s major television channels — will be featuring Yahoo search results, search ads and contextual…
Ruling Soon In Dispute Over Microsoft Exec With “Playbook” At Google
Google: Microsoft Suit Is ‘Charade’ Aimed At Scaring People from Dow Jones covers court arguments in the fast moving tussle between Google and Microsoft…
More Details On New Ask Jeeves Paid Listings Program
Ask Jeeves To Launch Own Search-Ad Sales Program from Dow Jones spills more beans about Ask Jeeves launching an expanded paid listings service of…
Feedster to Power RSS Portion of New “My AOL” Service
This morning, AOL is rolling out its new personalized home page service called My AOL. Like most AOL services these days, you don’t need…