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All The Google Factory Tour Slides
Missed the Google Factory Tour webcast? Andy Beal of Search Engine Lowdown has been doing live coverage of the event. Checking his home page…
Google Launches “My Google” Style Feature
Note: A more complete story from Search Engine Watch about the new service is now here: Google Launches Personalized Home Page Google is unveiling…
Accoona Now Offering Some D&B Data
The China Daily reports that web engine Accoona is now offering a small amount of company info from the Dun & Bradstreet database for…
Engineers Running Rampant at Google
What’s Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s advice for getting new ideas flowing at Google? During a speech at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco he…
Google AdWords & Other Feeds Offered
Spotted via Jensense, there’s a new Inside AdWords blog from Google. And from Dirson, an entire list of current Google feeds, such as from…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Google “One-Hit Wonder”
Spotted via John Battelle, The World According to Ballmer at BusinessWeek has Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggesting that Google "may just be a one-hit…
Don’t Blindside Disabled Users with Snarky SEO
If you’re using even seemingly harmless search engine optimization techniques, your pages may be perceived as spam or even worse by users relying on…
StatCounter & Alt Text For SEO
ClickTracks said it wasn’t the only tracking service to make use of tracking codes for SEO purposes. Frank Watson’s Some Tracking Companies Stealing Links…
Google Factory Tour Being Webcast
Google’s having its first "Factory Tour" today, an event for journalists and industry analysts. Google cofounder Sergey Brin will be speaking, along with CEO…
Blogdigger Goes Local
Blogdigger, a blog search engine being developed by Greg Gershman, has launched a new service called Blogdigger Local (beta) that allows you to search…
Yahoo Gains RSS Feeds For Web Search & Discovering Auto-Discovery
Yahoo is now the second major search engine to provide RSS feeds for web search, after MSN debuted them in January. RSS Feeds for…
Time For Search Standards For Titles & Description?
I’ve written before about how it is becoming more noticeable that Google may substitute titles and descriptions from the Open Directory for its listings…
Don’t Disable Your Site for Handicapped Users
Are you designing web sites that are accessible to disabled users? If not, you're overlooking a powerful market segment of millions of searchers and…
Demo Some Content Based Image Retrieval Software
A few weeks ago I blogged about content based image retrieval and listed a bunch of resources to learn more including several items from…
Google My Search History Spam
Using the Google My Search History feature? Make sure you’re logged in, then visit Google Blogoscope’s Planting My Search History Entries page. Now go…
Mid-May 2005 Search News Recap Posted
If you’re a Search Engine Watch member, the latest edition of Search Engine Update newsletter has been posted. It recaps top stories in search…
SortPrice Gets Drag-And-Drop Shopping Feature
The SortPrice shopping search engine has added a neat drag-and-drop shopping feature to its service. Do a search, then you can drag images of…
UK’s Yell Purchases Large U.S. Phone Directory Publisher
Reuters and Bloomberg News report in the article: Yell snaps up more U.S. directories that the UK publisher has acquired TransWestern, one of the…
Mac and Linux Users Get Google Video Upload Tool
Are you a Mac user who has video content you want to share with Google Video? Until today, uploading it was a challenge since…
Yahoo Declares Media RSS 1.0 Official
Yahoo says that the Media RSS 1.0 specification that it launched in December is now officially released. The spec is here.