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Search Forums Roundup: June 24, 2005
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: MSN Search…
Yahoo Testing Behavior Targeting Of Ads
Spotted via InsideGoogle, Yahoo Tests Behavior-Based Content Ads from AdWeek covers Yahoo testing ad placement on web pages outside of Yahoo own site through…
Ambedo For Command Line Searching, Too
Like the idea of command line searching, as YubNub that I wrote about earlier offers? Ambedo writes to say it offers the same. The…
Rating Search Engines By Playing Trivial Pursuit
We’ve written many times about how search engines are moving to presenting direct answers in response to some questions. Trivia Stump Smart Search Engines…
Guaranteed Clicks For Local Search Ads Doesn’t Mean High Visibility
The Magic of Seeing Your Search Ad from Justin Sanger at ClickZ probably should have been titled, “The Dirty Little Secret Of Local Search…
ET Don’t Go Home, Go To A Targeted Landing Page!
The Simple Pay Per Click Change That Could Earn You More from Jennifer Laycock is a plea to marketers that if you buy a…
Happy 40th, Gary!
Best birthday wishes to our busy news editor Gary Price, who leaves his 30s behind.
Official: Monier Is Going To Google
It’s official! The rumblings about search legend Louis Monier taking a job with Google are true. Searchblog has just posted an interview with the…
GooglePorn.com
A post on John’s blog talks about a open-letter to Google from a blog that covers the porn industry: An Open Letter to Google…
Mamma.com Launches Health Information Vertical
Metasearch company Mamma.com has introduced Health Search, offering real-time search of some of the most authoritative sources of health information on the web. Results…
Time’s Top 50 Sites & Search In Class Of Its Own
Time magazine is out with their annual list of the 50 “Coolest” web sites. Instead of including resources and tools from the major search…
Yahoo Think Big Contest Winner Announced
StairCycle has won the Yahoo "Think Big" contest, coming in first among over 80,000 entries. More details from this Yahoo press release and more…
Offline Marketing Generates Search: Were You Prepared?
No Search Is an Island is the first installment of iProspect founder Fredrick Marckini’s new monthly column for CMO Magazine. In it, he covers…
Tips On Finding New Sites
Out of site, out of mind from the Guardian made me smile when it mentioned some of the ways Jack Schofield used to keep…
A Searchable Database of Leisure and Business Events Around the World
It’s vertical search time! On ResourceShelf, we’ve posted on overview about What’sonWhen.com, a well organized searchable database that’s been online for many years of…
WebmasterWorld Search & Marketing Conference Recap: Day 2
The second day of the WebmasterWorld Search & Marketing Conference 2005 in New Orleans happened yesterday. Below is the roundup of live coverage from…
Improving Image Search With User Rankings
John Battelle points at a post from Thomas Hawk where he argues that image search would be improved through tagging but more important, through…
More on Grokker’s Visual Search Results
When Grokker released its free online I Grok search tool last month, Gary blogged a brief post about it. Essentially, I Grok clusters Yahoo…
Song About Google
Half of me hates blogging about the Google Song for fear it will just add to their supernatural myth. But it is funny. In…
Yahoo Wanted Flickr For The Tags (& Tagging Community)
Talk time: Jerry Yang from the Guardian interviews Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang. Why did Yahoo buy Flickr? To leverage its leading technology and features,…