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A Collection Of “Forbidden” Satellite and Aerial Images
Remember, the story from a few weeks ago about someone spotting a stealth bomber in a Google satellite image? Well, if you’re interested in…
Gmerge, a Google Maps Hack is No More
At about the time that the AP published a story about how cool, useful and interesting some of the hacks using Google Maps/satellite images…
AOL Makes Deal for Yellow Pages Listings
The Business Week article: YellowPages Goes for Gold on AOL, takes an in-depth look at the SBC-BellSouth to supply Yellow Pages listings to AOL.…
Conversation with Co-Founder of Vertical Engine Koders.com
socalTech.com has publsished interview with vertical search engine Koders.com co-founder, Jorn Teutloff. Koders allows users to search for open source software code. It officially…
Full Text Databases That are Just a Click or Two Away
I’m always mentioning the specialized databases often containing the full text of articles, reference books, etc. that libraries make available for free. These tools…
New Study Reports Consumers are Suspicious of Paid Listings
New and very interesting research out of Penn St. University says that consumers have a strong bias against paid listings. “Consumers have a bias…
A Nifty Search Toolbar & Password Manager Combo
Raise your hand: How many of you have dozens of online login names and passwords? OK, and how many of you follow security experts’…
A Search Tool for Your Online Passwords
Here's a interesting twist: A search toolbar that can be configured to use your favorite engine, and securely manages all of your online login…
SingingFish Adds New Video Content Partners
Stefanie Olsen has written an article about SingingFish, the multimedia search engine that’s owned by AOL, adding several new video content partners. Olsen is…
Bloglines Adding More than 2 Million Articles Each Day to Its Database
Those of you who track the steady stream of blog, blogosphere, and RSS stats might want to add some new numbers from Bloglines that…
New Korean Search Service Now Available
The Korea Herald reports on a new search service from Empas (it sounds like a metasearch tool) that launched last week in Korea. Empas…
Learning Search Engine Marketing
Anyone just starting to get a handle on search marketing faces a bewildering array of books, web sites, discussion forums and other resources that…
UK: New Service Offers Aerial Images to Real Estate Buyers
You’ve likely read about the Google satellite images “hack” that provides satellite/aerial images for properties available for rent via the Craiglist database. Now, the…
Search Marketing in a Box
Looking for a comprehensive guide to search marketing that's filled with tons of practical, no-nonsense tips and techniques? The Search Engine Marketing Kit may…
Become.com Now Providing Dynamic Search Term Suggestions
Via Threadwatch and an e-mail from Become.com’s CEO and Co-Founder, Michael Yang, news that the shopping research engine is now providing dynamic search term…
Should Google Sitemaps Take Pings? How About More General Compatibility Generally?
Jeremy Zawodny says he’s scratching his head over the new Google Sitemaps system and wondering why Google doesn’t adopt a ping-based page updating system…
MeeVee: A New Search Vertical for TV Listings
Yes, another new search vertical to blog about today. It’s called MeeVee and allows the user to search a database of U.S. television listings…
Searching for Online Buzz
I’ve often called blogs early warning systems for popular trends. Many bloggers pride themselves on keeping ahead of the curve and writing about topics…
Tough Love For Those Hiring SEM Firms
Do SEM work for other companies? Shari Thurow’s How Not to Work With an SEO/SEM Firm article from ClickZ will have you nodding your…
Make Your Own Tag Clouds With TagCloud.com
I wrote earlier of Yahoo News Tag Soup, which automatically groups Yahoo News stories into tag categories in a "cloud" format. Want to do…