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More Zeitgeist from Google
A ZDNet article and a post on the Google Blog inform us that Zeitgeist lists for three more countries are now online: + India…
SMA-NA Website is Now Live
News in one of our SEW Forums that the SMA-NA (Search Engine Marketing Association, North America) website has just gone live. Here’s a January…
Search Forums Roundup: Feb. 18, 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: NY Times…
Google Plans to Open Facility in Oregon
It appears that Google will be opening a facility in The Dalles, Oregon according to an article in The Business Journal (Portland, OR). Google…
Does Yahoo! Want A Piece of Indiatimes?
The Financial Times is reporting that Yahoo! is in talks with Indiatimes about acquiring a minority stake in the company. A senior executive at…
The New York Times Buys About.com
The bidding is over and the winner has been named. Word this afternoon that The NY Times will become the new owner of About.com.…
New Items for Your Search and Information Retrieval Reading List
Here are a couple of items that might make for good additions to your search and IR reading lists. + From the Stanford Database…
Shopping Search Technology Firm IM2 Gets Venture Cap Funding, Say Hello to FatLens
Those of you with an interest in shopping search might be interested to learn that Silicon Valley startup IM2 Inc. has received $8 million…
Jeeves Creates Smart Search Shortcuts for Blogs and RSS
I’ve noticed a couple of new Smart Search result boxes on Ask Jeeves serps. If you search for the term blogs or weblog you’ll…
Google AdWords Coming to AOL Europe
Forbes.com has a news brief about Google expanding their relationship with AOL in Europe. According to the story, Google AdWords will now be visible…
Fired Googler Mark Jen Speaks, Again
First, Mark Jen shared some thoughts about his firing from Google with Jeremy. Second, Jen posted his story on his ninteyninezeroes blog. Yesterday, he…
Hotmail Users Defect to Gmail
I just posted about an interview with Bill Gates where he calls Google a “fantastic” competitor. According to this BetaNews article, Google is not…
Just Win, Baby: Black Hats Claim Their Tactics Have Growing Following
This week, SearchDay has featured Search Engine Strategies reports covering panels that looked at the issue of search engine spam, focusing primarily on definitions…
Search Engine Showdown: Black Hats vs. White Hats at SES
What does a 'hardcore search engine optimizer' look like? Does he wear a black hat? With little holes cut out in the top to…
Bill Gates: We’re David and Google is Goliath
On ABC World News Tonight, Bill Gates sat down for an interview with Peter Jennings. A couple of times during the interview search and…
Four New Customers for Vivisimo’s Clustering Technology
Vivisimo, the search company that plays in both the consumer search space with Clusty and in the enterprise search world has announced that they’ve…
An Interview with the Developer of Yahoo’s YQ!
JB points to an interview on the Yahoo Search Blog with Reiner Kraf, the developer of Yahoo’s new YQ! contextual search tool that Chris…
A New Version (Beta) of the Google Toolbar is Now Available, Still No Firefox
Google has just released a new beta version of the their toolbar. Google Toolbar 3.0 (beta) can now be downloaded via a link at:…
Google’s Scholarly and Digitzation Initiatives
A couple of articles and notes about Google’s massive digitization project with libraries and Google Scholar to post here. Both come from the library…
Yahoo! Gets Fat
It’s now clear why Robert Greenblatt, president of entertainment at Showtime, told reporters three weeks ago that something “big” was in the works with…