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AOL Offers Personalized Home Page, RSS Feeds
AOL has launched a beta version of MY AOL, a customizable portal that provides access to AOL.com's entire suite of features and allows users…
Technorati Founder and CEO Chats with BusinessWeek
Technorati’s Founder and CEO, David Sifry, chats with BusinessWeek about competition from the “big guys”, system architecture, growing pains, advertising, and a new service…
Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox Leaves Beta, Version 1.0 Now Available
After about 5 1/2 months as a beta release, version 1.0 of the feature-filled Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox has just been made available. Version…
Mobile Search – SES San Jose 2005
The search engines understand how important mobile devices have become, and they’ve responded with an increasing number of moves to get stake out the…
New Google Backlink Tool
Quick note about a new tool to show backlinks to a domain as listed in Google. OK, so we all know (or should by…
Cairo.com Beats ShopLocal.com in WSJ Test of Local Shopping Engines
In today’s Wall Street Journal (registration not required), Walt Mossberg reports recent test of two local shopping engines, Cairo.com and ShopLocal.com. Which engine is…
DMA To Allow Deceased to Rest In Peace
Get that Ouija board out of your marketing toolkit! The DMA wants its members to stop marketing to the dead. They’re deadly serious. The…
AOL Unveils New Mobile Search Services
This morning AOL is online with a mobile web search beta. AOL has offered some mobile services (for example, AOL Instant Messenger, mail, news,…
Lee Hits China For Google, Didn’t Foresee Non-Compete Problems
Spotted via InsideGoogle, Kai-Fu Lee in China from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer blog covers how Dr. Kai-Fu Lee — the former Microsoft exec now at…
When Not to Use Search Engines
Turning to our favorite search engine has become reflexive for most people seeking information. But search engines aren’t always the best tools—there are other…
Yahoo Acquired VerdiSoft Mobile Sync Company
VerdiSoft acquisition could help Yahoo users stay synched from SiliconBeat notes that Yahoo acquired start-up VerdiSoft in February but news has apparently only come…
Goodman Revisits AdWords Changes & Importance Of Clickthrough
The Importance of Clickthrough Rate (CTR): Has it Changed? from Andrew Goodman at Traffick is a very long look at recent changes to how…
Complaints Over Yahoo’s Direct Traffic Center
One of our SEW Forums moderators sebastian has had it with Yahoo’s Direct Traffic Center, the administrative control center for those running paid search…
New MSN Screen Saver With Search & RSS Integration
Need a screensaver? The new MSN Screen Saver puts a search box on display, plus shows you RSS feeds, photos from your desktop and…
New Ask Jeeves Paid Listings Program Said To Come August 1
Rumors that Ask Jeeves is to roll out a new version of its own paid listings program came up earlier this month but now…
Yahoo Search Takes To The Air With Connexion By Boeing Wi-Fi Partnership
News comes from Yahoo that they have partnered with Boeing to be the "exclusive search engine" for the Connexion by Boeing in-flight Wi-Fi service…
Thinking Outside the Search Box
Sometimes, looking beyond search engines is the best, if not only way to find the information you're looking for.
Site Clinic – SES San Jose 2005
Our Site Clinic session is so popular that we usually repeat it a couple of times during our shows. But for SES San Jose…
Vertical Creep Into Regular Search Results – SES San Jose 2005
The Invisible Tabs are coming! The Invisible Tabs are coming! That’s what I was shouting about back in 2003, a term I made up…
Yahoo and Motorola Announce Partnership
Yahoo and Motorola announced a partnership today that will provide optimized versions of various Yahoo services on Motorola Linux-based mobile devices, broadband-enabled products for…