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Google: The Business
Ben Elgin at Business Week asks if Google is a one-trick pony? …a handful of analysts increasingly are questioning whether Google’s laser-like focus on…
Google News China Blocked…Again
Interfax reports that Google News China was unavailable after trying to access from various locations throughout China. The article goes on to mention that…
Ask Jeeves Improves Relevancy With Image Search
A e-mail note from Ask Jeeves team along with a post on the AJ blog lets us know that Ask is now using their…
Reports from SES NYC: Day Four
Search Engine Stratagies NYC 2005 is now history. I’m sure once Danny and Chris have time to recoup they’ll have plenty to share. In…
From Redmond to Mountain View: Top Windows Architect Joins Google
Microsoft Watch reports that Marc Lucovsky, a key Windows architect has left Microsoft after 16 years and is now a Googler. More in the…
Take This Content and Use It!
Copyright laws are getting ever more restrictive, and many content owners are pursuing increasingly Draconian enforcement actions against alleged information thieves. In response, a…
Inside Google’s Data Centers
Those of you with an interest about how Google’s data centers operate will want to take a look at the News.com article: Google’s secret…
Enhancements Made to Google Local (Beta)
Google is enhancing Google Local today with three new features. Here’s what you’ll find: Google Maps are now available on Google Local on both…
Finding Free Content in the Creative Commons
Looking for photos, music, text, books and other content that's free to share or modify for your own purposes? The Creative Commons search engine…
Reports from SES NYC: Day Three
Summaries from SES Day Three sessions are now available. Thanks to Barry and Benjamin for all of their hard work. + Search Convergence +…
Google Hacks, Reloaded
Two years ago, Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest broke into the New York Times list of top ten business paperbacks with Google Hacks, a…
Yahoo! Now Recommends Movies (Beta)
Greg Linden tells us about a new movie recommendation service (beta) from Yahoo! Movies. It appears that the recommendation engine is provided by ChoiceStream.…
Keyword Search Prices Drop Two Percent
A new Fathom report was released today and shows that keyword prices dropped two percent last month. Despite the overall decrease, the mortgage-finance category…
Ask Jeeves Now Powering Lycos Web Search
Score another deal for Mr. Jeeves. Word this morning that Ask Jeeves is now powering web search on the Lycos.com site. Details in this…
Combating Web Spam with TrustRank
You know about PageRank and about two weeks ago I mentioned a new paper from Stanford’s Database Group discussing PeopleRank. Today, another paper posted…
Newer, Fresher Google Hacks
One of the best books about Google has just been updated with new content and useful tools that make it even easier to exploit…
Yang and Sullivan Chat, Semel Says that MSN Ad Network Likely
The keynote session here at SES in NYC today was a “fireside chat” between Danny and Yahoo Co-Founder and Chief Yahoo!, Jerry Yang. You…
A Blogosphere Buzz/ Web Trends Tool From Accenture
It looks like Accenture is joining IBM’s WebFountain, Intelliseek and others in monitoring buzz and reputation from the web and blogosphere. The Canada.com article:…
Reports from SES NYC: Day Two
Barry Schwartz (aka Rustybrick) and Benjamin Pfeiffer (aka Phoenix) are continuing to post comprehensive summaries from various SES sessions. Here are the links (via…
The Google/Firefox Relationship
Ingrid Marson’s ZDNet article: Google keeping the wolf from Firefox’ door, offers several details about the Google’s relationship with the Mozilla Foundation. Gervase Markham,…