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MSN Desktop Search Toolbar Out Of Beta
In today’s SearchDay, MSN Toolbar with Desktop Search Officially Launches, Chris Sherman looks at the new MSN Toolbar coming out of beta. Desktop search…
MSN Toolbar with Desktop Search Officially Launches
After five months in beta, Microsoft has released the final version of its desktop search application, incorporating many new features based on extensive user…
PageRank, Wrappers, Ranking News and More: Papers from the WWW 2005 Conference
The WWW 2005 Conference took place last week in Japan and many of the papers presented at the conference are now available via the…
Other Sources for Reuters Video and Local TV News Video Clips
On Friday, Danny mentioned that AOL’s Singingfish had signed a deal with Reuters to bring searchable access to Reuters news video the Singingfish database.…
A Compilation of Yahoo RSS Feeds
I just spotted this useful compilation of various Yahoo RSS feeds. The page contains either the actual RSS url(s) or links to pages with…
Yahoo Sued Over Child Porn On Yahoo Groups
Yahoo Groups is a great way to create mailing lists and interest groups on any topic. Heck, even Google jumped into this portal feature…
Three Years Later, Google Demands Its $5
Way back in March 2002, when Google launched AdWords on a cost-per-click basis, I opened up a test account to play with the new…
Search Forums Roundup: May 13, 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 Buys…
Search Worth More Than The Clickthrough
Great news! Now TV ads will be charged on a performance basis, so if you don’t see sales, you don’t pay. Obviously that’s absurd.…
Study On How Much Search Screen Real Estate Devoted To Paid Content
How Much of It is Real? Analysis of Paid Placement in Web Search Engine Results is a study now out that looks at what…
Singingfish Gains Reuters News Clips
Singingfish, AOL’s multimedia search engine, is now carrying content from Reuters. The new deal means that breaking and archived video news clips from Reuters…
New Travel Search Engines Grow But Still Dwarfed By Existing Players
New travel search engines are growing in popularity, but they’ve got a long way to go to rival the share established players have. Hitwise:…
Report from Google’s First Annual Shareholder Meeting
After the year that Google has had with their IPO and the success of their stock, I would have thought that Google’s first annual…
Dogpile Gets New Look, Overlap Comparison Tool & Study
Dogpile has released a significant upgrade to its meta search engine, allowing easy comparison of search results across the major search engines. Dogpile has…
Yahoo On Patent Lawsuit: Jury Was With Us
I posted earlier about a judge declaring a mistrial in the lawsuit between Yahoo and FindWhat in the lawsuit over paid listings. Yahoo has…
Mistrial In FindWhat-Yahoo Patent Lawsuit Over Paid Listings
A patent dispute over paid listings between Yahoo and FindWhat has ended in a hung jury, with the judge declaring a mistrial. More information…
Class Action Lawsuit Against FindWhat Over Alleged Securities Fraud
A class action lawsuit against FindWhat over alleged securities fraud has been filed. Or maybe that’s lawsuits. Here’s the law firm of Schiffrin &…
Koders Offers Search For Open Source Code
Currently in beta, Koders will be formally launching on Monday as a way to search for open source software. The site claims to have…
Refinery Acquires directMASS Search Agency
Another search marketing firm gets acquired — this time, directMASS, by interactive firm Refinery, which counts Campbell Soup and Comcast among its clients. More…
Yahoo Adds New Option to Advanced Search Page
I just noticed that Yahoo has tweaked their advanced search page. You’ll now see an new option that allows you to limit your query…