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New Look and Features Unveiled in Yahoo News Beta
One area that I like to pay special attention to is news search and tonight some info about a revamped Yahoo News home page…
Google Wants Your Video
Google is taking what it calls the first step toward a video search service, asking for submissions from anyone who wants to share their…
Real Time Traffic Alerts via SMS
With another round of new SMS (text messaging)and mobile web search news going on this week, I want to mention another in a growing…
Australia: Enhancements in the Works at Sensis
Several sources including ZDNet Australia and the Sydney Morning Herald have articles about some enhancements coming to Australian web search engine, Sensis, by the…
Jobs at Google and Yahoo
I’m always reviewing job openings in the web search biz. They can be a great way to see where a company might be headed…
Get A Free Business Web Site at Yahoo
Yahoo Local is making it easy for the millions of U.S. businesses that don’t have an internet presence to stake out their own territory…
Yahoo Offers Free Business Web Sites
Yahoo is expanding its Yahoo Local search service by providing a free web site to business owners that will automatically be integrated into Yahoo…
Gmail Interface Now Available in 13 Languages
We just noticed that the Gmail interface is now available 13 languages. This page explains how to change the interface to any of the…
Yahoo Acquires TeRespondo Latin American PPC Search Network
Yahoo has acquired TeRespondo, a Brazillan PPC search network that plays in the Latin American market. Clickz’s Kevin Newcomb writes in the article: Yahoo!…
Rocket News Releases New Version of Desktop News Search App
RocketNews, a web news search resource that we’ve mentioned many times and like a lot, is online today with a new beta version of…
Google Malta Suffers From Embarrassing Translation
Malta Today is reporting that the Google Malta home page was hacked. The search button fittex (search) encountered a momentary metamorphosis on Tuesday evening…
Larry Page Returns As University Commencement Speaker
The Michigan Daily reports that Google co-founder Larry Page will deliver the commencement address to the graduates of the University of Michigan College of…
Local Search Goes to China
The local search boom is truly global in scope. Baidu.com, the large web search engine from .CN that Google is a minority investor in…
Mamma.com Gets Formally Probed By SEC
Several sources, including this Dow Jones story, are reporting that the SEC’s (Security and Exchange) Montreal-based search engine, Mamma.com, has been “converted” into a…
Yahoo Names New Head of Yahoo Research Labs
Just a couple of hours after Danny blogged about Dr. Gary Flake from the Yahoo Research Lab heading to Microsoft, we here that Yahoo…
AOL Posts Spring’s Top Searches
AOL Hot Searches Spring 2005 now up from AOL covers top “spring” search topics on its US service from January 1 to March 21,…
MSN Steals Head Of Yahoo Labs
MSN tells us it has just hired Dr. Gary Flake as a distinguished engineer, the first such external hire for a distinguished engineer for…
Search Google Local via Your Cell Phone
Google has introduced mobile phone access for its local search service, and has managed to squeeze just about all of the features of the…
Google Debuts Local Mobile
Google has added a new service that enables cell phone users in the U.S. to use a remarkably robust version of Google Local directly…
Building Intelligent Search Tools
It’s two for Tuesday on the SEW Blog. (-: We have two travel search news items and two posts about multimedia search. We’ll end…