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Q&A Interview With an Indeed.com Co-Founder
Interested in learning more about job search vertical, Indeed.com? Nathan Enns from The Search Industry Blog and Fybersearch has posted a ten question Q&A…
Blinkx Makes More Audio Content Searchable
I figured one post about multimedia search today deserved another. Just up on the BlinkxTV site is news that this multimedia search tool now…
Kayak Launches Self-Serve Ad Product; Priceline Releases Travel Search Tool
The only area that might be as hot as mobile search these days is travel search. How about a “mobile” travel search tool (that…
Podscope: New Search Engine Will Allow You to Keyword Search Every Word Spoken in a Podcast
I just spotted this announcement from TVEyes, a company we’ve mentioned on the blog in the past. TVEyes offers technology that automatically indexes and…
MySimon Founders Return for Encore
The guys behind pioneering shopping search service MySimon are back, with a new service called Become.com that offers a number of cool features to…
Ask Jeeves Enhances MyJeeves; Tagging Option Added
Ask Jeeves has just released an upgrade to their MyJeeves personalized search tool that Ask.com launched last September. New for MyJeeves users are several…
Newsweek Talks Tagging
In the article: In the New Game of Tag, All of Us Are It, Newsweek’s Steven Levy talks about the rise of interest in…
Become.com Launches Shopping Search Engine
The founders of pioneering shopping search engine MySimon have teamed up again to produce Become.com, a new service that provides information and options for…
Satellite/Aerial Images Plus Local Info
With all of the interest in satellite and aerial images these days I thought TerraFly, a service from Florida Int. University (with support from…
China’s Search Market Rises 81% in 2004
A brief article in the People’s Daily reports on the release of a report about China’s search market. The report released at a meeting…
More Plug-ins For Google Desktop Search Now Available
Google Desktop Search users will be happy to learn that the Googleplex has just posted a batch of new plug-ins for the GDS app.…
Google Files Proxy Statement with SEC; Brin, Page, and Schmidt Salary Set at $1.00
Hot off the press is the Google’s Definitive Proxy Statement. Info about executive compensation, Eric Schmidt’s employment agreement (he is currently receiving a salary…
Research Papers: Rankings, Link Farms, Personalization, and PageRank Collusion
Yesterday’s post about the revised research paper that will be presented at the WWW2005 Conference next month reminded me that I need to begin…
Search Forums Roundup: Apr. 8, 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: Bookmarks Seen…
Searching Books at Google; Comparing Coverage with Amazon’s Search Inside the Book
For several weeks I’ve noticed that using the trigger word “books” or “book” in a Google search always included a OneBox with results from…
Media Companies Buy Keyword Ads
I’ve noticed some media organizations (NY Times, Washington Post, etc.) purchasing keyword ads from Google, Yahoo, and other services for a long time. A…
Updated Research Paper: A Taxonomy of Web Spam
A week ago, Chris blogged about the First International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web that will be part of the WWW2005…
UK’s 192.com Directory Database Relaunches; Aerial Images for Many UK Locations Available
Both Revolution and Netimperative report that 192.com, an online directory enquiry service from the UK has just relaunched. The online directory enquiry used to…
Browse Yahoo Images with First Floor Image Search; Lenssen Releases New Version of FindForward
Here’s a neat and new image search/browse tool from a company called First Floor Software that uses the Yahoo Image Search API. First Floor…
Price of Search Ads Increases 9% in March
John points us to this Media Post article and chart about the latest Fathom Online Keyword Index. According to Fathom, paid search listings increased…