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Ad:Tech Chicago 2005 Roundup: Day 1
Ad:Tech Chicago is happening this week, and here’s a round-up of search related sessions via the AdTech Blog: Paid Search Rank Impact on Traffic…
Click Fraud Case Will Stay In Arkansas
Federal judge sends Internet-ad suit back to state court covers how an attempt to get a click fraud case filed against Google, Yahoo and…
Internet Archive Sued Over Access To Pages
Spotted via Threadwatch, Keeper of Expired Web Pages Is Sued Because Archive Was Used in Another Suit from the New York Times discusses how…
PressDisplay Makes Visual Copies Of Newspapers Available Online
Spotted via Robert Scoble, PressDisplay is an interesting site that lets you view newspapers from around the world as they appeared in print. There’s…
A Dynamite Personal Information Manager
Searching is one thing. Organizing and using the information you've found is quite another challenge, but a personal information manager called EverNote can really…
Blinkx Adds Multimedia Content from BusinessWeek, NY Times, and About.com to Database
We’ve learned that video content from BusinessWeek, The New York Times and About.com will soon be searchable and viewable using BlinkxTV. Blinkx automatically transcribes…
Update for Yahoo Desktop Search Now Available, Thunderbird Support Added
This afternoon Yahoo posted word that they’ve released an update for their desktop search tool. You’ll now find support for Thunderbird e-mail along with…
Google Employees Affect Real Estate Prices in California Town
The Wall Street Journal story (free to non-subscribers): Searching for a Home In Atherton, Calif.? Look Out for Googlers, reports on the booming price…
Yahoo Confirms HotJobs Crawling – What’s Old Is New In Job Search
Matt Marshall from the San Jose Mercury News offers up an interesting read in Yahoo to ‘copy’ jobs to beef up its listings that…
FAST Search and Transfer Technology To Power MapQuest
Every now and then I like to post an item or two about happenings in the enterprise search world. This is especially true when…
Schwarzenegger Visits Yahoo
We’ve noted from time-to-time about high profile visitors that have come to Google. This time, Yahoo gets a turn, with a visit from California…
Revisiting PageRank Lunacy
Over at ClickZ, Mike Grehan’s What Price PageRank? column looks at how people continue to be obsessed by PageRank and how the idea that…
What Americans are Searching For
A new study reveals some interesting patterns in the behavior of searchers, affirming the importance of search to internet users. Among the findings: People…
How Americans Search
A recent study from Harris Interactive shines interesting light on the behavior and preferences of Americans when searching the web.
GoogleGuy Confirms “More Results” Display Experiment
I haven’t been able to see it when running Google searches today but a post in the SEW Forums offers a screen cap of…
Yahoo Maps Mash-Ups Begin Rolling Out
It has been about two weeks since Yahoo released an API for Yahoo Maps. Since then, developers have started releasing “mash-ups” that overlay various…
Sight-Impaired Users Have Problems with Registration Process at Google
“Is Google Shutting Out The Blind?” by Susan Kuchinskas at InternetNews.com, reports that some sight-impaired Internet users are having problems with the “captchas” that…
International Group of Publishers Asks Google to “Cease” Scanning Library Books
An international group of publishers is requesting that Google “cease” scanning copyrighted materials for the Google Print for Libraries project until “appropriate licensing” can…
National Public Radio Reports on Yahoo’s Entertainment Play
NPR’s Morning Edition program ran a six minute report today focusing on where Yahoo has been and where the company is headed, specifically in…
FeedPlex Adds Advanced Search Options
Nathan Enns from FyberSearch has just updated his FeedPlex engine of RSS/XML material with 11 new advanced search options, including a couple that are…