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Yahoo Gains Financial Feeds; A Revisit To Yahoo News Feeds
Yahoo gained RSS feeds for news content last fall, and now it has regained them for the Yahoo Finance service, Yahoo’s Jeremy Zawodny reports…
LookSmart Reorganizes, Raises Loss Projections
LookSmart has revised the loss it expected to make last quarter from less than $1 million up to $1.4 to $1.7 million. Reason? Lower…
MSN Search To Gain New Technology Feb. 1
SEW forum moderator AussieWebmaster passes along news that he’s heard from an high level MSN contact the new MSN search engine currently being beta…
SEC Will Not Pursue Case Against Google
We’ve learned from an SEC 8-K filing that the Securities and Exchange Commission will not pursue a case against Google regarding the pre-IPO publication…
Complete Boston Globe Archive Set for Digitization
Word from the AP that the complete archive (both text and images) of the Boston Globe will be digitized and made full text searchable…
Google’s Mayer: Searcher Behavior & Google Factoids
If Google’s full of smart people, product manager Marissa Mayer’s one of the smartest there. She gave a talk at PARC on the user…
WPP Pushing More Into Search Marketing
Ad agencies don’t get search? Well WPP Group says it gets it in a big way. From Revolution, WPP eyes world domination with search…
Shopping Search, Contextual Ads & General Search Blogs Offered
I met up with Sean O’Rourke at our SES Chicago show who’s heavily into shopping search and threatened to launch a blog on the…
Yahoo Testing Sponsored Links at Yahoo Auctions
A brief post on the AuctionBytes web sites mentions that Yahoo is running a test (this week only) and placing sponsored links inside Yahoo!…
New Search ROI Tracking Tool Launched
Search marketing firm Oneupweb’s released a new ROI tool designed for search campaigns. ROI trax starts at $150 per month and rises depending on…
Baby Yahoo is Born
No kidding. A Romanian couple have named their son Yahoo as a, “sign of gratitude for meeting over the Internet…” A bit more in…
SMA-UK At Halfway Point
From a mailing to those on the SMA-UK interest list, news comes that the group has half the 50 members it needs to move…
Search Ads Were Hot In December 2004
DoubleClick-owned Performics has provided more figures about the holiday shopping period and search, finding consumer searches were way up in December. Based on what?…
Survey: Google Still Leads, But Competitors Closing Gap
In today’s SearchDay, Yahoo & MSN Closing the Google Gap, Chris Sherman looks at a new study that finds while Google is maintaining its…
2005 Ad Spend To Rise 30 Percent; Search In 2004 Ranked Third
A Deutsche Bank/MediaPost survey predicts ad spend will increase 30 percent in 2005. Looking back at 2004, 42 percent of ad spend went toward…
NYT On Google Ad Copy Policies – Overture Barely Gets A Mention
Advertisers on Google Are Told to Keep It Proper from the New York Times looks at how it’s not anything goes with ads on…
Yahoo & MSN Closing the Google Gap
While Big G continues to maintain its leadership position in the eyes of web searchers, a new study finds that Yahoo, MSN Search and…
Bug Found in Gmail
BetaNews is reporting that UNIX developers at HBX Networks have found a bug in Gmail that, “allows access to other users’ personal e-mails. By…
PubSub Unveils First “Content” Page
The gang over at PubSub have just released their first “content” page. Content pages (look for more of them in the future) feature one-click…
Mobile Search: New and Improved Access to Hoover’s Business Data
Those of you who are mobile web (yes, I love my Treo 600) searchers might be interested to learn that Hoover’s, the well-known provider…