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Bloglines Adds Weather Forecasts
I just came across a new feature from Bloglines the delivers local weather forecasts and info. I then noticed that both the Bloglines Blog…
GoFish Releases myGoFish Music Playlist Sharing Feature
GoFish has launched a myGoFish service allowing people to upload digital music playlists and share them with others, as well as publish to their…
Google Hires Dan Senor To Head Communications; Other DC Hires & Lobbying
Google has hired Dan Senor as vice president of global communications and strategy, replacing the spot vacated by Cindy McCaffrey earlier this year. Senor…
Even More Firefox Search Hacks
I’ve ranted several times about Mozilla Firefox, which I consider the quintessential searcher’s browser. Firefox comes with lots of great search tools built-in, and…
Allcheckin Travel Search Engine Launched
A new travel search engine especially aimed at the UK market has been launched. Allcheckin is backed by former executives from BT Looksmart and…
ClickTracks Launches Discounted Agency Plan
The ClickTracks web analytics service has opened a new ClickTracks Agency Program, providing a discount for agencies seeking to do web analytics for their…
Supercharging Firefox
The Firefox browser comes pre-configured with lots of great search tools, but it's also highly customizable, allowing you to push your online experience to…
Google’s Chef Decides to Say Goodbye
In late December, I blogged that Google was searching for a Lead Chef. I was a bit surprised to see this. What about Charlie,…
New Beta Release of A9 Now Available
This afternoon Amazon’s A9 went live with a new beta release of their search tool. You can find a complete list of what’s new…
Clusty Now Offering Links to Cached Copies of Pages
I just noticed that Clusty, the meta search engine that provides dynamic clustering of results, is now offering cached copies of every url found…
Google’s AdSense For RSS Released in Public Beta
Embedding contextually relevant ads into RSS (ATOM too!) feeds today took a big step forward today when Google announced that AdSense for Feeds (beta)…
Plug-Ins For Flash, RealMedia Indexing Via Google Desktop Search
Google Desktop Search users might be interested in a couple of new plug-ins that were recently released. + IndexSWF Plug-in This is a 1MB…
New FyberSearch Tool Helps Find Tutorials on the Web
Nathan Enns, the developer and proprietor of FyberSearch has released a new interface that allows the searcher to quickly find tutorials on the open…
Google Ranking Alternative Domain Tops For Searches On Google
The Google.com does not rank #1 for Google thread in our Search Engine Watch Forums looks at how Google has recently been returning not…
Discussions On Travel Search
Have Search, Will Travel from MediaPost has David Berkowitz looking at travel search, the topic of three separate panels at the recent TravelCom conference.…
Yahoo News Turned Into Tag Cloud
Yahoo News Tag Soup takes Yahoo News stories, extracts key concepts from article headlines and summaries, then automatically tags them into different categories. The…
SMA-EU Formally Launches; SMA-UK Names Executive Committee
Via Threadwatch, news that the SMA-EU European search marketing organization has formally launched. What’s that mean? Nominations for a 12 seat executive committee will…
RustySearch Search Relevancy Challenge: Everyone’s Pretty Average, So Far
Barry Schwartz’s Search Engine Relevancy Challenge is still going strong at RustySearch. How’s it going so far? He’s had 5,000 rated search so far…
Search Marketing Firms On Parade In London
NetImperative is sponsoring a search marketing firm beauty parade in London on May 26. Ten firms each have 25 minutes to pitch for your…
Google Launches Consumer Ad Campaign In Kansas City
I asked Google last week for information about a new consumer marketing campaign I heard they were planning for Kansas City, to promote Google…