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More On FAST Beats Google For AOL Local
Our AOL Search: Playing In the Big Leagues Now on the new AOL Search release commented on FAST being selected over Google to power…
Yahoo & Reality TV Product Placement Deal
First Yahoo does Broadway, and now it does reality TV. The company will produce and sell ads for The Contender and The Apprentice, which…
Page Sells Shares, Joins XPrize Board, Honored at Demo@15
Here are a couple of items about Mr. Page and Mr. Brin that have recently crossed our desks. + If I added it up…
Call for Papers: Spam, Blackhat & Adversarial Information Retrieval
Word comes from Brian D. Davison of Lehigh University of the upcoming First International Workshop on Adversarial Information Retrieval on the Web workshop, to…
Update On New MSN Search Going Live
Yesterday, I noted that when I visited the regular MSN Search site, I got the look and results that also show at the beta…
Search Forums Roundup: Jan. 21, 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: AOL Search…
New My Yahoo Ticker For Windows Taskbar
Using My Yahoo to track stocks or read feeds? Now there’s a little My Yahoo Ticker you can get that will stream material to…
Yahoo Comes To Broadway Via Spamalot
Spamalot, a new musical comedy coming to Broadway and based on Monty Python And The Holy Grail, will be featuring Yahoo’s logo during a…
Blogger.com: Where’s the “Nofollow” Info?
I’m a bit surprised that almost three days after Google announced the “nofollow” attribute that Blogger users (Blogger is a a Google service) still…
Link Condom: The Nofollow Parody
While debate over the usefulness of the new nofollow link attributes continues, a parody site called Link Condom has just gone up to stress…
Google Loses Trademark Infringement Case in France
On December 15th Google was victorious in a trademark-infringement lawsuit filed by GEICO in a U.S. Federal Court. However, as Stefanie Olsen reports on…
Hotmail Users Can Now Subscribe to MS Outlook
The AP is reporting that Microsoft is introducing a fee-based e-mail service that lets users, “organize e-mail, contact lists and calendars in their online…
iFrontier, Rawhide Absorbed
Some updates on old SEM names we’re finally losing due to past acquisitions. First, i-FRONTIER is to be no longer, as least as a…
Interface Tweaks to Search.Yahoo.com Interface
I’ve noticed a tweak to the clutter-free and ad-free Search.Yahoo.com interface this morning. Now included on the page, directly below the search box are:…
Answers.com Now Supplying Dictionary Definitions and More to Google
Google is slowly switching from its long-standing use of Dictionary.com definitions to Answers.com definitions. The migration began on Jan 18. Some may still see…
MSN Search Beta May Now Be On Main Site
People in our forums are reporting that the main MSN Search site is now looking the same as the beta MSN Search site. I…
AOL Search Playing with the Big Guns Now
AOL Search is rolling out some new enhancements to both its proprietary client software and to AOL Web Search as part of its relatively…
AOL Search: Playing In the Big Leagues Now
AOL is rolling out several enhancements to its core search functionality that position it as a clear contender in the battle for eyeballs between…
Googlers Hit the Ski Slopes
It’s going to be a challenge to find Googlers working at the Googleplex for the next few days. Why? The entire staff (more than…
MSN Releases Australian and Canadian Versions of Newsbot
New from MSN today are a few more local versions of their Newsbot news search beta. Online today: + Newsbot Australia + Newsbot Canada…