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Dec. 2004 Top 20 Search Engines In UK
NetRatings has released a list of the top 20 search engines in the UK for December 2004, ranked in order of the number of…
360i Buys SearchIgnite
Search marketing firm 360i has purchased SearchIgnite, a search management software company. The move gives 360i internal technology for bid management and other search…
WorkZoo Offers Job Searching
WorkZoo is a new crawler-based job search engine just launched seeking out pages from across the web that seem to offer jobs in the…
SEM Business Issues On Discussion
Here’s a pair of Search Engine Watch Forum threads dealing with some tricky SEM business issues. In How To Start & When You Can…
Conversion Research Shows Search Costs Could Rise
Research Supports Aggressive SEM and SEO from Kevin Lee at ClickZ looks at two recent search and conversion behavior studies to summarize findings. Commonalities?…
Plurals Lost In Google Dictionary Defintions
Search for car on Google and you’ll get a option to view a dictionary definition of the word via Google’s partnership with Answers.com, like…
SEMPO Gets New Board Of Directors
SEMPO members have just received a mailing informing them of their new board of directors, selected through the recent election. The board is scheduled…
Google Toolbar’s AutoLink & The Need For Opt-Out
AutoLink is new feature in the new third version of Google’s popular Google Toolbar that’s raised controversy since it was released last week. Why…
Search Forums Roundup: Feb. 25, 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: Concerns Over…
Opt-Out Needed For Google Toolbar’s AutoLink
The AutoLink feature in the latest version of the popular Google Toolbar has raised controversy since it was released last week. Why are publishers…
The Search Engine Update – Number 192 – February 25, 2005
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the second half of February 2005.
Word of a Yahoo! Toolbar for Mac Users
On the heels of their just released Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox, we just read a report by O’Reilly blogger Nat Torkington that a Yahoo…
RSS via SMS
Philipp points to a post about an interesting mobile service (in beta) that I spotted a few weeks ago but haven’t had time to…
Yahoo! Adds Video Search Tab to Several Local Yahoo! Sites
It appears that Yahoo! wants more of the world to know about and use their video search database. I noticed this morning that the…
Microsoft Smart Tag Engineer Not Involved With AutoLink
One other bit of the AutoLink story that I’m working on now. Rumors that the person involved with Microsoft’s Smart Tag program has done…
Barnes & Noble Overrides Google Toolbar AutoLink
I’m working on a story about the Google AutoLink feature and controversy is has raised with some publishers that should be out tomorrow. But…
Interview With Ask Jeeves On Search
Mike Grehan has an interview up with Jim Lanzone, senior vice president of search properties at Ask Jeeves and Apostolos Gerasoulis, founder of the…
a9 Has Patent Application Published
InternetNews.com reports that a9 (an Amazon subsidiary) hopes to have some its technology patented. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently published a patent…
Ask Jeeves & New TV Ads
As noted earlier, Ask Jeeves has embarked on a television campaign to promote its service. Must-See Jeeves from the Ask Jeeves Blog lets you…
FindWhat’s Q4 Earnings Flat
Pam Parker’s Clickz article, FindWhat Blames Low Growth on Quality Control, takes a look at FindWhat’s recently announced Q4 2004 numbers and their expectations…