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AutoBaron For Visual Car Shopping
Buying a car? AutoBaron is an interesting new site that lets you find the best deal using a chart format. It’s one of those…
Dogpile Enhances Meta Search, Offers Comparison Tools
Dogpile has redesigned its meta search site and introduced a nifty new utility that visually displays the overlap (or lack thereof) of results from…
Online Poker Searches Not Driving Wikipedia Popularity
Did Wikipedia's recent rise in popularity have more to do with a link bombing campaign by some bloggers to push Wikipedia into the top…
New Google Toolbar 3 With AutoLink Leaves Beta
Google has released an update of its Toolbar for Internet Explorer, addressing many of the concerns with the controversial AutoLink feature that adds additional…
Google Makes An Acquisition: Dodgeball.com
Reuters is reporting that Google has acquired dodgeball.com. Will Sergey, Larry, and Eric soon be out there promoting dodgeball games around the world? Nope,…
New Web Archive Launches in the UK
A new and growing web archive of “social, historic and culturally significant web-based material from the UK domain” is now online. It’s called the…
Yahoo Names Carat, Outrider As Strategic Providers
Yahoo has named Carat Interactive and Outrider as Strategic Providers, the highest level of its Yahoo Search Marketing Ambassador Program. The two companies join…
AOL Launching Free Email But Not “Creepy” AdSense Ads
AOL is to offer free web-based email, initially to users of its AIM instant messaging client, then later to anyone. The move is designed…
MSN Employee Who Hacked AltaVista Pleads Guilty
A few eyebrows were raised last year when an MSN employee was accused of hacking into AltaVista. The actions happened before Laurent Chavet began…
After More Than A Year, Google Remains Without Chair
Over a year ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave up his other title, that of chairman. Why? It’s a growing trend that good corporations…
Search Agencies Rebrand, Expand
Search engine specialists: Agencies seek higher returns from Revolution looks at how several UK and Europe-based firms have renamed themselves. Reason? To reflect that…
Let Me Guess: You’re Thinking of a Penguin…
Wouldn’t it be cool if search engines were so smart that they’d implicitly understand even our most complex information needs and provide spot-on results…
Podscope Expands To Audio & Video Searching
Podscope, the free search tool from TVEyes that allows you to keyword search podcasts, is expanding to include audio and video content from across…
If Search Engines Could Read Your Mind
What if a search engine knew exactly what you were thinking, and unerringly provided perfect search results? The idea is not as farfetched as…
Search Ad Prices Up 11% In April 2005
The average price for search ads rose sharply for the second month in a row, according to the latest Keyword Price Index from Fathom…
Yahoo More Than Search, Says CEO & New Yahoo Music Service Coming Wednesday
Globes Online, a business news site from Israel, has just posted an article that several comments comments from Yahoo CEO, Terry Semel, titled: “Yahoo…
Clusty, Snap, and Answers.com Profiled in Fortune
It’s always good to see some of the newer names in web search getting the mainstream notice that they deserve. This is the case…
Software Design Legend and Guru Heads to Yahoo
According to this report from Reuters, legendary software design guru, Larry Tesler, is leaving Amazon.com for a job at Yahoo where he will serve…
A Legal Look at Click Fraud
Click fraud has been getting a lot of press lately, and while the problem clearly exists, nobody’s really certain how serious it is. In…
Agreement Brings Product Info from Shopping.com to Answers.com
Word in this press release that Answers.com and Shopping.com have announced a partnership that will bring content from the shopping comparison engine to Answers.com…