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Search Players Want Your Mobile Phone
Local mobile search? Hold the phone from News.com takes a look at how search companies are eyeing the mobile market as a way to…
WSJ’s Mossberg Against AutoLink
I’ve got an update coming on developments with Google AutoLink since I last wrote about it (see Google Toolbar’s AutoLink & The Need For…
Bush “Miserable Failure” Bio Turns Link-Only On Google
File this under interesting but perhaps nothing, big on the perhaps nothing part. I was checking on the infamous miserable failure search today that…
Google Makes Suggestions in Japanese
Here’s one for those of you who search in Japanese, or know people who do, a Japanese version of Google Suggest is now online.
Gigablast Increases Number of Pages Indexed
Those of you who track total index size (or at least what the engines tell us) might be interested in learning that Matt Wells…
Now You Can Customize Google News
Google has just rolled out some new features that allow you to add, delete or re-arrange content on the Google News home page. Not…
New Customization, Personalization Features at Google News
Google has enhanced its news service with a number of new features that make it easy to modify your own version of the Google…
FareChase Announces Enhancements
FareChase, the travel search site that Yahoo acquired in 2004 is announcing a few enhancements to the service. A post on the Yahoo Search…
SEO Big For About.com
What’s the value of organic search engine optimization? It apparently contributed quite a bit to the $410 million that the New York Times paid…
Using Web Engines to Spread Malware
Websense, a computer security firm. has just released a new report that includes a brief discussion about the use of web engines to spread…
Yahoo Readying Contextual Ad Expansion?
We had plenty of rumors running around SES NY last week that Yahoo might expand its contextual ad offerings in the manner of Google’s…
Tools for Exploring the Blogosphere
There’s a lot of great content being published in blogs these days, but it isn’t always easy to find. While many bloggers link to…
A9 VP Talks About New Visual Yellow Pages
Interested in learning more about A9’s new “visual” yellow pages? During SES last week, Zachary Rodgers from ClickZ chatted with Barnaby Dorfman, a VP…
Google Admits To Cloaking; Bans Itself
No, it’s not April Fool’s Day. Google has indeed cloaked pages on its own search engine and now banned those pages from its index.…
A Cool Blog Discovery Tool
There's a lot of great content out there on those millions of blogs, but finding the good ones related to your own interests can…
A Visit to Google’s Hyderabad Center in India
If you’re interested in learning about some of Google’s operation in India, the rediff.com article: Google Hyderabad sets global trend!, is worthy of your…
Google and Answers.com Announce Ad Deal
Word this morning that Gurunet (the parent of Answers.com) and Google have signed a deal that will place Google AdSense advertising on Answers.com pages.…
Yahoo Execs Talk About the Possible End of Ad Relationship with MSN
Last week I blogged an item about Yahoo CEO Terry Semel predicting that Yahoo’s advertising deal with MSN will end when Microsoft launches their…
Study: Organic Search Results Still Rule
A new eye tracking study found that searchers still favor algorithmic search results on a Google search result page. And (no surprise) top-ranking results…
Yahoo Directory Makes Changes & Further Directory Decline
The Changes in the Yahoo Directory thread in our Search Engine Watch Forums notes that the Yahoo Directory home page has gained a new…