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Jux2 Goes Offline
Some sad news to report. Jux2, the winner of the Search Engine Watch 2004 best meta search engine award, is no longer available. Over…
Findory Now Offering “Personalized” Advertising
Greg Linden from Findory reports that the personalized news and weblog recommendation tool is now showing “personalized” advertising that’s not only based on the…
SES Toronto Round-Up
In a few hours, I’m jumping on a train to go to our Search Engine Strategies London show, which begins tomorrow. But earlier this…
Yahoo CEO: 2005 Is For Making More Search Revenue & Better Ad Targeting Through Personal Info
Yahoo CEO: Better Search Monetization Is Top Co Priority from Dow Jones has Yahoo’s Terry Semel saying that increasing the revenue earned per search…
Microsoft Slams “Perfect” Google Again
Forget the previous Microsoft party line on Google, where Microsoft admitted to being "stupid" in falling behind in the search space. Now it seems…
Not Just A Search Engine: 2005 Edition
This time last year, Yahoo talked of being “more than a search engine,” sending me off on giant wobble. My Return To The Sad…
Wall Street Journal On Search-Funded Spam
I’ve written before on the ironic situation of Google AdSense funding some of the spam Google has to eliminate from its indexed. Syndic8 Gets…
Finding Your Way Around in London
Search Engine Strategies London gets underway tomorrow, and all of us attending the conference will also be spending time navigating this ancient, sprawling city…
AdWords: Limits On Number Of Terms, How Terms Get Disabled & Negative Site Feature Info
A three-fer here from the Search Engine Watch Forums, on how Google may limit new accounts to the number of terms they can bid…
More On Direct Links For Libraries In Google Scholar
Earlier this month, we mentioned how any library can now set up direct links to the full-text articles found in Google Scholar. In other…
Corrupt Editors? PageRank-less Categories? And Other ODP Problems
Last week, I talked about it perhaps being time for the Open Directory project to close or at least radically change. Some follow-on news…
Navigating London
London offers wonderful opportunities for rambling exploration—but it's also easy to lose your bearings if you're not careful. Fortunately, the web offers some terrific…
The Search Engine Update – Number 198 – May 31, 2005
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the second half of May 2005.
Submitting RSS Feeds To Yahoo
Yahoo has been accepting RSS feeds for some time. However, it recently released a Publisher's Guide To RSS that formalizes some submission tips and…
Voice-Activated Search Technology Being Developed In Israel
The Globes [online] site from Israel has a brief article about Maestro, voice-activated search technology, being developed at Ben Gurion University of the Negev.…
Is Google Planning to Open a New Googleplex in Boston?
According to the Boston Business Journal article: Google goggles Hub for major expansion, that the Boston area is one of four cities that Google…
Special Memorial Day Logo at Ask Jeeves
It’s Memorial Day here in the U.S. today and Ask Jeeves is running special holiday logo on their homepage. Here’s a screen cap.
Google Toolbar Currently Showing No PageRank Scores Across The Web
Google Toolbar PR Meter Gray Across The Web at our Search Engine Watch Forums covers how for two days now, the Google Toolbar’s PageRank…
Growing Your SEM Business Virtually
Want to grow your SEM businesses but don’t want to hire full-time people, deal with getting a formal office and other issues? Virtually Perfect:…
Ask Jeeves Exec Jim Lanzone Answers Questions
5 Questions with Jim Lanzone, Senior VP of Search Properties, Ask Jeeves from SearchViews has Jim Lanzone explaining why he likes the Bloglines service…