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Yahoo Gets Ready to Open Digital Music Store
It looks like Apple’s iTunes, Real’s Rhapsody, and other digital music download services will have a new competitor, Yahoo. According to a Silicon.com article:…
Fired Google Blogger Gets a New Job
Mark Jen, the former Google employee who was fired for blogging, has a new job and it’s also in Mountain View. According to Zawodny…
A New F-Word for Google Search Results
A new study has added tangible evidence to the widely held view that top-ranking search results get the most attention from users, and that…
A Week After Launch, Yahoo Search Developer Network Lists More than 20 Applications
It’s been about one week since Yahoo launched the Yahoo! Search Developer Network with several APIs for web developers to use. I was just…
Web Research “Dashboard” Nextaris Formally Launches, New Services Added
Nextaris, a web-based “dashboard” for the researcher was formally released today. Chris had several positive thing to say about this feature-filled service in his…
Most Conversions Happen Offline; You Need To Measure These!
In his ClickZ article, Nonconverting Keywords and the Search Continuum, Fredrick Marckini is stunned that some comScore and Overture research about conversions released at…
Google Engaged In Cloaking Its Own Pages?
Threadwatch has a nice catch that this page from Google on AdWords traffic estimates looks different from the cached version recorded by Google’s spider.…
Australia’s Ansearch Will Use Overture Ads
Ansearch, the new Australia web engine that is set to formally launch on March 31 (we’ve been blogging about it since November) has signed…
A Busy Time for China’s Web Search Companies
Several announcements from the major web search providers in China over the past couple of weeks. The Asia Pulse article: Search Engine Market To…
Are VoIP Services on the Horizon for Search Providers?
In January, Danny blogged about speculation (at a fever pitch for a few days) about Google launching a VoIP telephone service. Today, Jim Hu…
The Site that Inspired the Yahoo! Netrospective
If you enjoyed the Yahoo! 10 Year Netrospective that Chris just blogged about, take a look at 10X10, a site that inspired the Yahoo!…
Google Desktop Officially Launches
Google has formally launched its desktop search application, after a comparatively short beta test period of just five months. Version 1.0 of the desktop…
Google Desktop Search Moves Out of Beta
Google has formally launched its desktop search application, after a comparatively short beta test period of just five months.
Yahoo: Ten Years, 100 Moments, One Page
Last week, Yahoo celebrated its 10th birthday. At SES, Danny surprised Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang with a birthday cake in front of 2000 people,…
Listen to Jerry Yang Interviewed on Charlie Rose Show
A few hours after Chief Yahoo! Jerry Yang sat down for a fireside chat/keynote with Danny at SES last Monday, he headed to The…
Blinkx Profiled in Technology Review
The Technology Review article: Search for Couch Potatoes, offers a brief look at contextual/desktop/video search tool, Blinkx. According to the article, Blinkx currently has…
Google’s New Weather Shortcut and Similar Services
A post on the Google Blog informs us that Google now has a shortcut that provides a four-day weather forecast in a OneBox at…
A Behind the Scenes Look at Google
Yesterday, we linked to a News.com article about how Google’s data centers operate. Want to learn? Today, Philipp reminds us about an October 2004…
Search Forums Roundup: Mar. 4, 2005
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: SES New…
The NY Times Publishes Article About Clickfraud
Time for another clickfraud article coming from major mainstream press organizations. This time around it’s The New York Times/IHT with the story: Fears of…