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UnderGoos, Google Underwear Store, Opens
You may recall I blogged earlier about Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wanting to create a line of Google underwear. Well, it’s…
WordPress Caught Spamming After Enlisting To Fight Spam
Back in January, blogging software provider WordPress was one of several vendors that signed on to support the new nofollow attribute designed to stem…
Yahoo Adds New Options to YQ
News from Sunnyvale that YQ (Yahoo’s contextual search technology that was released as a beta in February) is offering a few new features for…
Google Prefetch Will Autoload Some Results
Google released a new feature today for Firefox and Mozilla users that allows them to “prefetch” the first result from a serp into their…
Google Acquires Zipdash and More From The Google Annual Report
We posted yesterday, within minutes of it’s publication, that the Google 2004 Annual Report was available. After reviewing the document SiliconBeat’s Michael Bazeley notes…
Update: Adversarial Information Retrieval Workshop
The First International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web workshop, to be held at the 14th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005),…
ZoomInfo: A Focused People-Search Vertical
Last week, ZoomInfo launched a people search engine, with profiles of more than 25 million people. If you have even a minimal presence on…
Winners Of 5th Annual Search Engine Watch Awards Announced
The votes have been counted, the editors have deliberated, and Yahoo has won the Outstanding Search Service category in the 5th Annual Search Engine…
The 5th Annual Search Engine Watch Awards
Yahoo has won the Outstanding Search Service category in the 5th Annual Search Engine Watch Awards, while Google has a sweep across several other…
Searching for People with ZoomInfo
ZoomInfo is a free service that's gathered information about more than 25 million people—including you, if you have even a minimal presence on the…
FirstGov Requests Info from Search Vendors
The Government Computer Week article GSA releases RFI for new FirstGov search reports that the General Services Administration (the providers of FirstGov) has published…
More Searchable Video on the Way: Blinkx Signs Deal with Reuters
According to this news release, Blinkx has just signed a deal with Reuters that will make thousands of hours of Reuters news video keyword…
Google Files Annual Report With SEC
Here’s one hot off the press. We haven’t had time to give it the time it deserves (yet) but about twenty minutes ago Google…
WSJ On Using Search To Build Brand
Your Ad Here, 10 Words Max from the Wall Street Journal (sub. required to read) looks at how search ads are being used to…
Keeping Current With Persistent Search Tools
The Wall Street Journal is online with an about persistent search from companies like PubSub. The article is titled: New Web-Watching Tools Pique Interest…
CGI Holding Buys More, Changing Name To Think Partnership
CGI Holding Corporation, the company of many search marketing brands, has gained additional ones recently and will undergo a name change to Think Partnership.…
Digital Impact To Be Acquired By Acxiom
Data management and marketing company Acxiom is to acquire Digital Impact, giving the company a new search marketing presence. Digital Impact gained search marketing…
Refining Searches with Contextual Analysis
Most search engines offer refinement tools, suggesting different or additional search terms to try if your current query isn’t doing the job. But all…
Can The Cookie Be Saved?
Crumbling Cookies Threaten SEM and Online Advertising from Kevin Lee at ClickZ looks at how a growing number of consumers eschewing cookies may make…
Google Employee On 20 Percent Time
Many of you have heard about the "20 percent time" Google employees are allowed to spend on anything they want. In Google 20%, Google…