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Just the Facts, Please
While the major search engines continue to dabble with shortcuts to reference sources, Wikipedia and Answers.com have quietly evolved into two of the most…
Jan. 2005 Nielsen NetRatings Search Engine Ratings
Nielsen NetRatings statistics for search engines in Jan. 2005.
NetRatings Search Popularity & Loyalty Figures
A look at new search popularity and loyalty figures from NetRatings for January 2005.
People Search: Eliyon Becomes Zoominfo.com
People search company Eliyon is now ZoomInfo.com. They have a new search interface and have launched three new advanced search options. The service is…
Snapfish Gets Reeled In by Hewlett-Packard
Ready for another acquisition in the photo sharing and storage space? Yes, it’s not exactly search but after today’s news about Yahoo acquiring Flickr…
Wikipedia Plus Dynamic Search Term Suggestions = WikiWax
Surfwax has just launched its LookAhead search term suggestion technology combined with Wikipedia into a new site calledWikiWax. Over 600,000 Wikipedia index terms are…
Full Text Court Filings: Agence France Press v. Google
Last Friday, news broke of Agence France Press filing suit against Google in U.S.District Court alleging copyright infringement. Here’s the SEW Blog post with…
BlowSearch Offers Source Exclusion; When Will The Majors Do The Same?
Another Search Engine Strategies, and another show where I heard plenty of advertisers asking yet again for the ability to pick and choose exactly…
Euro Search Marketing To Grow 65 Percent
Forrester Research estimates that search marketing will increase 65 percent in 2005 to 1.4 billion. That spend includes non-search contextual ads, however. From its…
Should Google Fear France?
I was just thinking about a possible April Fool’s headline, "Google’s Brin Arrested By French For Cultural War Crimes" after reading the latest French-related…
Yahoo Media Group Hiring
We’ve written of Yahoo’s new Yahoo Media Group before. From News.com, Yahoo’s SoCal plans take shape, some brief details of openings for news editors,…
Search Ad Prices Rising — Retailers Seek Options
Some Retailers Balk At Search Ads As Prices Soar from Dow Jones discusses how as search ad prices rise, some retailers are no longer…
FindArticles Redesigns, Adds Sort & Search Options
FindArticles has always been a great resource for locating periodical content that might not be available on the web in general. Now the LookSmart-owned…
Fredrick’s Dad Makes Him A Believer In Local Search
Fredrick Marckini thought the hype over local search and getting little merchants online was just that, hype. But after watching the experiences of one…
IAC-Ask Jeeves 2005 Vs. IAC-Lycos 1999 & The Need For Being Inclusive
I just listed to the investor webcast about the proposed InterActiveCorp-Ask Jeeves deal. My first thought was how familiar it sounded to proposed (and…
MSN Shopping Beta Tests New Version
MSN Tests Shopping Search Engine from MediaPost has some details about a new comparison shopping service that MSN is testing, the MSN Shopping Beta.…
AOL’s Newest Search Vertical: Pinpoint Travel
AOL has been on a tear over the past six months, significantly upgrading and enhancing AOL Search (including local and desktop flavors) and also…
Official: IAC/InterActive Corp To Acquires Ask Jeeves
The story is now crossing the wires that it’s official, IAC/InterActive Corp will acquire Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion in stock. An investor call…
AOL Launches Pinpoint Travel
AOL's new Pinpoint Travel is an ambitious effort to provide truly comprehensive travel search that consumers can trust to provide the best options, not…
5th Annual Search Engine Watch Awards – Nomination Form
Nomination form for the 5th Annual Search Engine Watch Awards.