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Google Definitions Goes Multilingual
The Google Definitions service is now providing word definitions in languages in other than English, according to the Google Blog. The feature is described…
Ars Technica Reviews Desktop Search Tools
Via Greg Linden’s blog, Ars Technica tests and recaps major desktop search tools in Windows desktop search tools. From the conclusion, MSN Desktop Search…
myGmaps Lets You Tag Google Maps
Want to tag and annotate Google Maps with your own information? myGmaps is a new service spotted via GoogleBlogoscoped that lets you do this.…
More On Click Fraud, The Lawsuit & The Need For Third Party Auditors
After breaking the news yesterday of a potential class action lawsuit over click fraud against major search engines, the Wall Street Journal is back…
Playing with Kids’ Search Engines
Looking for the best ways of discovering kid-friendly content on the web? Check out our just-updated listings and reviews of Kid Search Engines.
Google & SEO Support For Advertisers
The amount of support advertisers are getting about editorial listings on Google has ramped up to the point where search marketers are raising concerns…
Sabre Holdings Purchases IgoUgo Travel Info Community and Database
Dow Jones reports that a major player in travel, Sabre Holdings, has purchased the online travel community and searchable vertical database of travel reviews,…
Google Removes Child Porn Post & Reports To FBI
Child Pornography Complaint at Chilling Effects illustrates how Google received a complaint of child pornography in its Google Groups service, causing the company to…
Online Spend Beats Radio In The UK
My wife used to be in radio promotions with the solid job when I went into that fly-by-night internet stuff. Well, love, online advertising…
Lycos To Distribute Ads Through AlmondNet Post-Search Network
Lycos in Deal for Search-Targeted Banner Ads from AdWeek covers how Lycos will be distributing its paid listings through the AlmondNet search behavioral targeting…
Yahoo Adds Firefox Toolbar for Mac and Linux Users; Anti-Spy Feature Also Added
A bit of toolbar news out of Sunnyvale today. News that Yahoo has released a service for Yahoo Toolbar users as well as two…
Jux2 Results Pages Receive Makeover
Results pages on Jux2, the 2005 Search Engine Watch Award winner for best meta search engine have just received a makeover. You can see…
A Q&A With Tim Bray
Danny’s post about Tim Bray’s cherry tomato test served as a reminder to me that we’ve never linked to an interesting interview with Tim…
The German Greens Don’t Like Google, Either
In Should Google Fear France?, we recapped how Google’s not exactly the favored child in France for a variety of reasons. German Greens Worry…
Google Images Wins Cherry Tomato Challenge For Attribute Indexing
Tim Bray tests whether Google, Yahoo and MSN image search services can find images that make use of keywords only within the the ALT…
Yahoo Has Google’s Mojo: Round Two
Second sight from The Guardian has gotten a lot of comment I’ve seen for being the second piece in as many weeks to suggest…
Super Cool: Interact With Satellite and Aerial Images With NASA’s World Wind Program
I thought I would toss out another cool satellite and aerial image tool on our blog since Chris wrote about Google Local adding satellite…
Surfing Seasonality With Search Marketing
In Seasonality and SEM Campaigns from ClickZ, Fredrick Marckini looks at how search marketers need to react to seasonal and season-like events, in order…
MSN Chooses WhitePages For Phone Listings
MSN Replaces InfoSpace With WhitePages.com covers MSN dropping InfoSpace as its white pages provider in the US and shifting instead to WhitePages.com. MSN partners…
Searching For WiFi Hotspots
Heading off on that big trip and need to locate the nearest WiFi hot spot? WiFi Search Sites Offer Spring Freedom from Jennifer Laycock…