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Shopzilla Opens zLabs Tech Preview Site & Debuts Robozilla Shopping Service
Shopzilla zLabs is a new technological showcase area opened by shopping search engine Shopzilla. Now featured is Robozilla, a shopping search engine using the…
Visualizing Yahoo Search Results
Grokker, a visual search tool that clusters related search results together in conceptually related categories, is now available in an online version, free of…
MSN Adds Direct Answers With Sports Info
MSN Search is now providing “direct answers” at the top of web results pages with scores, brief bios, stats for baseball and basketball teams…
SES San Jose 2005 Agenda Is Live
The agenda for the next Search Engine Strategies show in San Jose this August 8-11 is now live on the SES San Jose 2005…
AltaVista Founder Louis Monier Moving To Google?
When AltaVista came onto the search scene, it had all the impact for people in the way Google is thought of today. It drew…
Special Logo on Yahoo Today
Summer is now underway in the Northern Hemisphere and to celebrate (and promote) their summer guide, I noticed a special logo at the top…
GoFish Adds Song Lyrics Search Option
I used to work in a record shop and one thing that happened quite often was a customer coming into the store asking for…
Danny & Tristan Talk About Link Counts, Site Counts & Index Auditing
I’ve been having a series of email conversations with Tristan Louis, who has been trying to understand how well “A-List Bloggers” do in the…
Extreme Yahoo
All too often, we use our favorite search sites in a cursory fashion, not taking the time to fully explore the full range of…
Don’t Come To Court If You Haven’t Searched Properly!
Even the courts know the Internet is the first place to turn for information from InternetCases.com, spotted via InsideGoogle, has an interesting tidbit where…
Watching Google Get Blocked In China
Chinese Blogger Slams Microsoft from Wired revisits the controversy over Microsoft filtering what can be posted on its blog service in China. I found…
Pay Per Call May Rise To $4 Billion In 2009
Kelsey Group: Consumers, Click Fraud Will ‘Compel’ Pay-Per-Call Adoption from MediaPost looks at a new Kelsey Group report projecting that pay-per-call revenues may grow…
More On Publisher Concerns On Google Library Project
A New Page in Google’s Books Fight from BusinessWeek, spotted via Search Engine Guide, covers the scanning halt request of Google’s library digitization project…
MSN Search Gets Neural Net/RankNet Technology & (Potentially) Awesome New Search Commands
Local, Relevance, and Japan! from the MSN Search WebLog talks about MSN Search using a new relevancy ranking system based on "Neural Net" technology,…
Google Does Plan Payment System, But Not PayPal-Like One
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has confirmed that Google is working on an online payment system but cross-his-heart swears it won’t be one that competes…
WebmasterWorld Search & Marketing Conference Recap: Day 1
The first day of the WebmasterWorld Search & Marketing Conference 2005 in New Orleans happened yesterday, and Barry Schwartz from Search Engine Roundtable and…
Yahoo to the Max
Extreme searcher Ran Hock has published a new book, this time taking an in-depth look at the wide range of tools and services offered…
Publishers’ Group Asks Google To Halt Scanning For 6 Months
Publishers’ Group Asks Google to Stop Scanning Copyrighted Works for 6 Months in The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the Association of American…
Google Maps Now Offering Satellite Imagery In Lots Of Places
OK, it looks like more than the US and UK now have satellite images in Google Maps. Here’s detailed views of Rome, Athens and…
Answers Partners With IceRocket
The increasingly popular vertical engine Answers.com has just announced a partnership with IceRocket. According to the news release, IceRocket will send visitors to Answers.com…