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Special Father’s Day Logos at Ask Jeeves and Google
In honor of Father’s Day, Ask Jeeves and Google have special holiday logos online today.
Google Registers New Domains
Google Watchers out there might be interested to learn that the folks at 1600 Amphitheater Drive in Mountain View have registered a bunch of…
Google Wallet Coming To Handle Online Payments?
According to the WSJ , Google has plans to offer online payment services. Exact details of the search company’s planned service are not known.…
Google MD? How Doctors Use Search
I’ve heard that doctors are often horrified that patients do a web search about problems, leading them to sometimes inaccurate information. Hey, I’ve done…
PageRank Decoder Offers Flash-Based Guestimates On Linking Impact
Want to understand how PageRank will build between pages you link? Only Google actually knows how that works. There’s been so much tinkering and…
Service To Compare Google & Yahoo News Results, Sort Of
Newsiness Google-Yahoo News Search, spotted via Phil Bradley, lets you see keyword search results from Google News and Yahoo News side-by-side. Well, sort of.…
C:> YubNub For “Command Line” Searching & Search Commands For the Majors
Honestly, I didn’t miss leaving behind the DOS command line and getting all GUI. But there are times when I’ll still dig out the…
Search Forums Roundup: June 17, 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: Google, IP…
Gataga For Meta Searching Bookmark & Tagging Services
Gataga is a new service that lets you search against bookmark at del.icio.us, blogmarks, blinklist, jots, spurl, furl, simpy and connotea. You can apparently…
Should You Trust Those Alexa Stats?
Everyone loves stats, and Alexa is a great place to get popularity data about your site for free. But is it accurate? If you’re…
Google Now Offering Index of Pages Optimized for the Mobile Web
Google Search For Tiny Screens from InternetNews.com report on Google releasing a new beta service for mobile web searchers that allows searching an index…
Google Library Digitization Agreement With University Of Michigan Now Available
Just in, news that the agreement between Google and the University Of Michigan for the Google library digitization program has now been posted online.…
AccessMyLibrary.com Puts Library-Only Content On The Web
AccessMyLibrary.com is a new site from Thomson Gale that has made content the publisher provides to library now accessible through the web. Searchers can…
Google & Yahoo Make List of Top Growth Brands; What the Public Envisions for These Companies
Forbes and Vivaldi Partners have just published their list of the 20 brands that, “have the best extension opportunities according to consumer perceptions.” eBay,…
Google Offering Chinese University Search?
"Once arrogant Google" is to offer a university search service for China, says People’s Daily Online. It’s the first time Google’s said to offer…
What Google Has Bought & Should Buy
I don’t really care about the speculation on what Google might buy next. Heck, some of the company’s purchases have been opportunistic rather than…
Glimpse At Odeo Podcast Portal
Looking for podcasts? The new Odeo site started by blogger founder Evan Williams aims to please. It’s in a closed beta right now, but…
360i Acquired By Innovative Interactive
Search marketing firm 360i has been purchased by Innovation Interactive, 360i tells us. Innovation Interactive is the parent company of eXact Advertising and paid…
ALT Attribute For Descriptive Image Linking
Having to use long, descriptive copy in your internal linking got you down for some reason? How Image Links Can Help Build a Better…
Real Estate Site Traffic & Housing Bubble Terms Spike
Remember the report last week that keyword prices relating to mortgages had dropped? Well, real estate sites themselves didn’t see a drop in traffic.…