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Defining Google
From my “not major” but worth mentioning file. I was doing some searching the other day at Google and happened to use the word…
Google Adds New Content to “Google Information for Webmasters” FAQ; Explains Supplemental Index
Google has posted some new content to their “Google Information for Webmasters” FAQ. A section titled, “Advanced Questions” includes answers to the following questions:…
Forbes Announces Deal With Search Vertical IT.com
Media Post has a short article today about Forbes.com users now having access to search vertical IT.com directly from search boxes located on the…
Search Forums Roundup: June 3, 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: Secrets of…
New “Google Sitemaps” Web Page Feed Program
Today, Google has unveiled a new Google Sitemaps program allowing webmasters and site owners to feed it pages they’d like to have included in…
Yahoo Gives New Life to Failed TV Music Program
We’ve read plenty about Yahoo’s interest in offering new and original content (in many formats) on their service. Today, the International Herald Tribune/New York…
A Look at Machine Translation from Google and Others
Google Blogoscoped points to a Christian Science Monitor article that takes a look at some of the machine translation work that Google and others…
Wayne Rosing: The Google Astronomer
About a month ago, Searchblog posted that Wayne Rosing had left his position as Google’s Senior Vice President of Engineering to do work in…
Shopping and Searching for Books Online
Michelle Slatalla, the “online shopper” from the New York Times, has written an article about several databases that can help you find books available…
Interested in Evaluating Search Quality and Advertising for Google?
About three months ago I posted about Google looking for “quality raters” to evalaute advertising. These could be some of the people using the…
Feedster Completes Round of Venture Capital Funding
Earlier this week I posted about Become.com completing a round of funding. Today, word from Feedster that they’ve also just done the same thing.…
A New Compilation Free “Cool Tools”
Over at Search Engine Guide, you’ll find a new compilation from Robin Nobles that lists a number of cool tools that just happen to…
Seekport UK Offers New Refinement Service; Announces Contest
An article from Netimperative reports that Seekport’s UK engine has released a new service that tries to identify homographs (words with the he exact…
Google Rater Hub – Details Of Human Review System Unveiled
Google Secret Lab, Prelude from Henk van Ess’s new Search Bistro blog looks at how Google uses human reviewers to improve search quality. Ess…
New Article Looks at SEO “Gone Bad”
Companies subvert search results to squelch criticism from the Online Journalism Review looks how companies are trying to squash bad public relations in search…
GoogleGuy Shares Advice About May 2005 “Bourbon” Update
Via Searchblog and Threadwatch some advice from GoogleGuy about the Google update named “Bourbon” that’s currently underway. GG writes: Here’s the advice that I’d…
eBay Goes Shopping and Acquires Shopping.com
Just crossing the wires is news that eBay (you’ve heard of them) has acquired comparative shopping search site, Shopping.com. According to the Wall Street…
New Study Looks at What Drives Online Usage?
This isn’t a search item but I think it might be of interest to some of you. The Online Publishers Association and the Media…
Yahoo Adds News Headlines “Module” to Yahoo Mail Home Page
A few hours ago I noticed that my Yahoo Mail home page (the page visible after logging-in) now contains a “module” labeled “In the…
Edelman Reports on Google’s Role as “Advertising Intermediary”
Harvard researcher and adware/spyware expert, Benjamin Edelman, has posted a new report that asks the question, “Are ad intermediaries responsible when their ads are…