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Bonuses For Several Google Executives
I just spotted a new SEC filing containing info about the cash bonuses several top Google execs received for their work in 2004. Omid…
Kanoodle Ads Coming to Some RocketNews RSS Feeds
Via a news release we’ve learned that Rocketinfo, the providers of the RocketNews search engine, an impressive news and weblog search tool that we’ve…
Link to Froogle Now Visible on Google UK Home Page
Those of you who track each and every Google move might be interested to know that the Google UK home page now sports a…
Ads On Ask & Could Paid Listings Take Prime Position?
In The Search Interface Of The Future from MediaPost, David Berkowitz looks at future history, envisioning a move where Ask Jeeves puts paid listings…
Writing Search Friendly Web Content
Last week I wrote about eye tracking studies that emphasized the importance of creating content that users respond to favorably after finding pages using…
1GB: Yahoo Mail Users Getting Storage Space Increase
The AP is reporting that users of Yahoo’s free email service will soon (by mid-April) have 1 gigabyte of storage space available to them.…
Yahoo Desktop Search Adds New Search Options
Some desktop search news to let you know about. Word that Yahoo has just added a couple of new search options to their Yahoo…
Three Newspaper Publishers Acquire 75% of Topix.net
Congrats to Rich Skrenta and his Topix.net team. Today, the company is announcing that a group of three newspaper publishers (Tribune, Knight-Ridder, and Gannett)…
Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines
A list of major metacrawlers. Unlike search engines, metacrawlers don't crawl the web themselves to build listings. Instead, they allow searches to be sent…
Scirus Adds 13 Million Patents to Database
Scirus, Elsevier’s science-specific web database that offers access to content from a targeted crawl of the open web along with material from many science…
Tagging Not Likely The Killer Solution For Search
In case you’ve missed it, there’s been an explosion of interest in “tagging,” the idea that if everyone labels photos, blogs and so on,…
If Your Site Could Talk, You’d Be Ashamed
User Experience and Search Engines: If Your Home Page Could Only Talk from Kim Krause Berg at Search Engine Guide is a very witty…
Copyright Questions On Google Digitization Project
Harvard-Google Project Faces Copyright Woes from the Harvard Crimson looks at copyright issues being raised about Google’s plans to digitize thousands of books in…
Yahoo Posts Ad Guidelines & Ad API Info
Yahoo has posted new guidelines about what’s acceptable in its search advertising plus some information about its long-standing API system for advertisers. In my…
Google News Says Au Revoir to Agence France Press Content
Less than a week after Agence France Press (AFP) filed a lawsuit against Google alleging copyright infringement of its content by Google, the folks…
Performance Problems on Google’s Blogger Service
Hallelujah! I’m glad to see that Google’s Blogger service is doing something about serious performance problems. As many of you know, I’m also the…
More Press For the Vertical Search Biz
Olga Kharif’s Business Week article: Search, the Next Generation, takes a look at the increase in specialized tools (aka verticals) that haven been coming…
NetRatings Search Popularity & Loyalty Figures For Jan. 2005
I’ve posted new, improved search-specific stats from NetRatings painting a picture of search popularity in the US for January 2005. In the past, NetRatings…
Get Your Facts Straight
When you need to quickly look up factual information, search engines typically aren’t the best tools for the job. Sure, the majors are all…
Is Cloaking Deceptive Advertising? Not Necessarily
Search Marketing Techniques, Deceptive Advertising Laws & Other Laws from Alan Perkins at Search Engine Guide looks at how laws about deceptive advertising might…