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Personalization for the Mobile Web Searcher
TheFeature’s Peggy Ann Salz conducts an interview with search engine personalization expert Barry Smyth about using personalization to improve the online experience of the…
ODP Forum Closes Status Check Service; Time For The ODP To Close?
Been wondering what’s going on with your Open Directory submission? The Resource Zone site has long offered a way to ask ODP editors to…
BitTorrent Plans to Launch Search Engine & Carry Ask Jeeves Ads
While several earch tools exist to find BitTorrent material (movies, music, software and other files), the service itself has not offered its own search…
Search Forums Roundup: May 23, 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 Gets…
New South African Web Engine Now Online
If you track regional search engines you might be interested in a new service that searches only pages from the South Africa named Funnel.…
New Local Search Technology Company Prepares for Launch
The Rocky Mountain News article: World Wide Web cut down to size, takes a look at Local Matters, a new local search technology provider…
New From Yahoo: Guide to RSS for Publishers
The new Yahoo Publisher’s Guide to RSS will be especially useful as a one-stop shop for those just getting started with the format but…
Google News Study Finds Bias But Not Favoritism — But Study Also Has Flaws
A study has found that Google News results are significantly more likely to have an ideological bias than Yahoo News, though the bias will…
Customize Landing Pages For Paid Search
Create New Pages for PPC Search Landing Pages from Kevin Lee at ClickZ reminds that with paid search campaigns, you can change your landing…
Google Factory Tour Recap
So Google’s first Google Factory Tour has ended. Overall, I’d say it was a great success on the PR front — at least if…
Google and X1 offer New Desktop Search Services for Business Customers
A couple of days ago Google announced that Google Desktop Search was now available for enterprise users. Google Desktop Search, Enterprise Edition is available…
Reactions To My Google Personalized Home Page
So the My Google service — ahem, Google Personalized Home Page — is now out. What’s being said? Here’s a round-up of things I’ve…
Three Attorneys Launch a Click Fraud Clearinghouse
Three of the attorneys involved in the click fraud class action lawsuit that Danny blogged about last month have started a web-based clearinghouse that…
Ask Buys Excite Europe; To Share Excite.com With Infospace
A Reuters article about 10 days ago mentioned that Ask Jeeves was planning on offering new services throughout Western Europe. These plans were made…
Google Launches Personalized Home Page
Google has unveiled a new service that allows people to consolidate various Google features they use, ranging from web search to email, into a…
SMS Search Provider Licenses Technology for Use in China
Last October I blogged about a new info service available from a Bay Area company named Synfonic that provides stock quotes, local listings (using…
Tomorrow’s SearchDay On Google Personalized Home Page Up
I’ve now posted the full rundown on the new Google Personalized Home Page on Search Engine Watch. It’s going out as tomorrow’s SearchDay, but…
Google Personalized Home Page Now Live
The new Google personalized home page service mentioned earlier is now live here. Postscript: A story from Search Engine Watch about the service is…
Tweak Google Desktop Search
I just came across a new app (freeware) from Nathan Evans that allows you to make several changes to Google Desktop Search without having…
Yahoo Surveying Web Searchers
Michel from El Telendro dropped me a note about a survey that Yahoo is asking random web search users to complete about the My…