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Tracking Trends via the Blogosphere
Want the latest buzz about what's going on in politics, sports, entertainment or other current events? BlogPulse maps trends by mining the hot topics…
Search Ad Prices Down 15% In May 2005
The average price for search ads dropped sharply last month, according to the latest Keyword Price Index from Fathom Online. The average price paid…
Balancing Search Privacy & Data Storage
Google’s long memory stirs privacy concerns out today from Reuters should have been called "Search’s long memory stirs privacy concerns," but as usually, everything…
LinkCounts & LinkStats From PubSub’s Only Rough Picture, So Far
There seems to be no end to blog search tools wanting you to have cool looking charts to prove your popularity. To prove the…
More Questions On Adware & Search Ad Distribution
Last month, we wrote about allegations that Ask Jeeves was gaining distribution through misleading installations of software. A month later, and the allegations continue,…
Shopzilla Sold to E.W. Scripps for $525 Million
Shopping search is hot. As you know, eBay purchased Shopping.com last week and today, we’re learning that Shopzilla (they also operate BizRate) has by…
Internet Marketer Corey Rudl Killed In Racing Accident
Plenty of people were introduced to search marketing by way of internet marketer Corey Rudl’s writings and speaking. Sad news to report. Rudl was…
Gambling Ads Lawsuit Against Search Engines To Go Ahead
According to this press release, a case against major search engines and gambling ads filed last year in California is to move ahead. The…
US Search Players Moving More Into China
U.S. Web Giants Target China from BusinessWeek is a general overview with lots of stats on US search players moving further into the China…
Gary Price Gets Distinguished Alumnus Award
What did Michigan’s Wayne State University ever do for anyone? For searchers, the university’s Library and Information Science Program produced our own news editor…
The Other Local Search: Craigslist
You’ve heard plenty about how general purpose search engines like Google and Yahoo are developing local search. They want good local listings that will…
FindWhat, Espotting Rebrand As Miva
FindWhat is undergoing a name change and taking Espotting along with it. Miva, formerly the name of the FindWhat-owned Miva Merchant ecommerce storefront tool,…
Spam Spotted on Yahoo Developer Network Wiki
One of the great things about wikis is that anyone can easily contribute. At the same time, the ability for anyone to contribute can…
Speakwire Adds New Feature, Listen to Any RSS Feed
A quick update to my post from last week about Speakwire’s new service that allows you to “listen” to RSS feeds. When I wrote…
Easy Multi-searching with Firefox
Firefox provides a lot of built-in search tools, but using them requires a two-step process of typing search terms and then selecting a specific…
Contextual Search with Firefox
Found something on a web page you'd like more information about? A nifty plugin for Firefox lets you highlight text and search using any…
Variation on a Theme: A New George Bush Linkbomb?
Poltics aside, the classic “linkbomb” continues to tell us that President G. W. Bush is a “miserable failure.” Today, I spotted this blog post…
German Publishers Plan Major Book Digitization Project
Since Google announced their book digitization plans we’ve read about a major book digitization project across Europe being lead by France and recently learned…
Israel Will Soon Say Shalom to Google, Office in the Works
Haaretz, a leading Israeli newspaper, reports that Google will open an office in Israel soon and perhaps expand its existing Hebrew-language Google Israel site…
Now Available: New Version of Start.com, Microsoft’s Customizable Home Page
Over on MSN Search’s WebLog you’ll read news that Microsoft has released (IE only) a new version of their Start.com customizable home page. Want…