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SMA-NA Forming – Now A Direct Challenge To SEMPO?
Last year, the Search Marketing Association formed chapters in the UK and Europe. Now one for North America is being founded, with Ian McAnerin…
Yahoo Launches Desktop Search
Long anticipated, Yahoo's new Desktop Search beta is a solid contender in the increasingly crowded desktop search playing field.
Yahoo Weighs in with Desktop Search
Long anticipated, Yahoo finally released its desktop search application a few moments ago. Overall, I’m impressed with the product, even though it’s little more…
Montoring Super Bowl Ad “Buzz”
We’re seeing more and more interest in mining the web, blogosphere, and other publications to track buzz about companies, products, people, etc. Most of…
New Tool: Is Your Site is Google “Hack” Proof?
The News.com article: McAfee automates Google hacking, introduces SiteDigger 2.0, some new and free software from Net security firm McAfee that will help webmasters…
Technorati Announces Winners of Contest
Shortly before the New Year holiday I posted that Feedster had announced the winners of their first developer contest. The other day, Technorati announced…
Google’s Usenet Timeline and Early Search Engine Announcements
Slashdot has a thread about a “new” timeline from Google that highlights interesting and historic posts from their 20 year Usenet (aka Google Groups)…
FindWhat.com Licenses Fast Search And Transfer Technology
I said last week that Fast Search and Transfer was continuing to add big name info industry clients when I posted about the company…
Tension at the Googleplex?
News.com offers up a discussion of some of the human resources issues that Google has to or will need to deal with: Google riches…
Yahoo Maps vs. MapQuest
The LA Times Chris Gaither in: Overtaking MapQuest a Challenge for Yahoo, takes a look at what Yahoo is doing to gain market share…
Leading Korean Search Engine Launches Desktop Search App
The Korean Herald reports: NHN joins desktop search competition, that NHN Corp owners of leading Korean search engine Naver.com are now offering a desktop…
MSN Search Beta Results Via RSS & Encarta Link
Two things to report. First, I’ve noticed that a “clear link” (not visible in most web browsers) labeled RSS is included in the source…
Yahoo! Launches Print and Online Ad Campagin
Yahoo will launch an online and print advertising campaign today (aimed at media buyers, ad agencies, etc) promoting their ability to target advertising to…
Some of the Stranger Queries from the BBC’s Search Engine
The BBC has posted an article letting us know that their search engine received over 227 million queries in 2004. It also includes a…
Turbocharging Adobe Acrobat
Google was the first search engine to index PDF files back in 2001. All of the other major search engines soon followed suit, and…
Speeding Up Acrobat Reader
If you dread opening PDF files found in search results because of Acrobat Reader's painfully sluggish startup time, take heart: A nifty free utility…
Former Enron CEO Using Paid Search Listings
Here’s another use of paid listings by the legal industry. AP is running a story today about how the legal team of former Enron…
Gigablast Passes the One Billion Page Mark
A congrats and kudos goes out to Matt Wells (and his team) as the Gigablast web index passes the one billion page mark. The…
Semel Speaks on Monday
Those of you who closely follow Yahoo! might want to listen to a webcast of Yahoo CEO Terry Semel’s presentation at the Smith Barney…
Search Forums Roundup: Jan. 7, 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: Time For…