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Google Ranking Itself Tops For Britney Spears & The Need For Better Categorization
Spotted via InsideGoogle, Stephan Spencer argues in Does Google deserve a top 10 spot for britney spears? that Google is borderline spamming to come…
Better Search Privacy Needs Addressing Overall
What Search Sites Know About You from Wired looks at the issue of search privacy. As usual, Google gets to be the whipping boy…
Yahoo Auto-Linker Tool For Adding Links To Content
Philipp Lenssen from Google Blogoscoped has created Yahoo Auto-Linker, which taps into the Yahoo API to automatically insert links into any content you might…
Click Fraud Suit Names Google, Yahoo & Other Search Companies
Rumors of a class action lawsuit over click fraud have been circulating for over a year. Now one may have finally arrived. Spotted via…
Google News Undertakes Consumer Ad Campaign In Japan
Nice catch spotted via SearchViews, news that Google will undertake its first significant consumer marketing campaign to promote Google News in Japan. Google turns…
Spain Says Hola to Ask Jeeves
Word that Ask Jeeves has just released a beta version of their new search service for Spain at: https://es.ask.com. The engine provides access to…
Google Debuts Satellite Images
Google has added high-resolution satellite images to its Maps and Local search services, offering a birdseye view of millions of locations throughout the U.S.…
I Can See Your House From Here: Google Satellite Images In Maps
Google has integrated the satellite imagery it acquired with its Keyhole acquisition into the maps it displays on Google Maps and Google Local. You…
On Spelling Correction and the Collective Knowledge of Web Users
I just came across a paper that might be of worth a read by the techies out there who have interest in spelling correction…
Yahoo Files Proxy Statement with SEC
Those of you who follow Yahoo closely might be interested to learn that in the past hour the company filed their latest proxy statement…
Yahoo’s FareChase Releases Hotel Search Beta
A beta released by Yahoo’s FareChase service today allows you to simultaneously search multiple sites for hotel rates in the same manner you’re able…
Google To Start Indexing Web Video
We’ve been wondering when this was going to happen. News.com reports that Larry Page told an audience at the National Cable & Telecommunications Association…
More On Yahoo’s Media Group & Yahoo Wins MSN Content Exec
Yahoo’s plans to be a player in providing access to various types of entertainment content is discssed in the AP article: Yahoo raises eyebrows…
Looking Inside Yahoo News
Spotted via Greg Linden, Inside Yahoo News from the Online Journalism Review looks behind the scenes about how Yahoo News is creating, ranging from…
Google’s First Venture Into Television
Soon, getting buzz on Google might also get you a mention on a new web-based television channel. In the past hour or so, a…
Google: We Do Have A Grand Plan
Living by Google Rules from Newsweek is a revisit to the challenges Google faces against stiff competition. Revisit? Sure, because we saw these types…
Blinkx 3.0 Goes Live
Blinkx is online today with the release of Blinkx 3.0 (Windows only) that now combines (into a single results list) material from the web,…
Breaking Down Google’s New Search Patent Application
Still haven’t found time to read through that pending Google patent that all the search forums are abuzz with? Never fear, others are breaking…
MSN Search Champs: The Sequel
Last year, MSN Search generated some initial good buzz for itself — plus gained some product feedback — by inviting a number of bloggers…
Yahoo & FindWhat Face Off In Court This Month On Patents
Yahoo and Google settled their differences over a patent lawsuit involving paid listings last year, but Yahoo and FindWhat will duke it out in…