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Findory and Technorati Offering New Services
The new year is beginning with new services from a couple of weblog and news search tools. First, Technorati is now offering keyword alerts.…
Google Testing Images On Web Results Pages
Philipp over at Google Blogoscoped points out that Google is testing placing few thumbnail images from their image database at the top of web…
New Version of Acrobat Includes Yahoo Toolbar and Search Options
A new version (7.0) of the Adobe Acrobat Reader was released today. The download page (for some Windows versions)
December 2004 Search News Recap Posted
The latest edition of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now online, recapping tops stories in search from the past month. You can…
Yahoo Health Beta Focuses on Searchability and Personalization
The Media Post article: Web Portals Beef Up Health Sections, discusses a new MSN Health and Fitness section and a Q4, 2004 beta release…
The Google Webcam “Hack” Story
Several stories and posts on the web today about Google providing access to unsecure webcams. A couple of quick comments: 1) A VNU.net article…
Video Of 60 Minutes Google Story Available
Missed the 60 Minutes story on Google? Now you can download it here in AVI format. Be aware it will be a big download.…
Gigablast Now Offering XML Search Feeds
The list of new services and tools at Gigablast continues to expand. In the past few weeks I’ve posted about: + Using Gigablast to…
Updates To SEW Search Term Research Resources
I’ve updated our long-standing What People Search For – Most Popular Keywords page to provide updated links to the ways major search engines let…
My Search Resolutions for 2005
Along with losing weight and getting more exercise, I’ve made a number of resolutions related to how I’m going to change my searching behavior…
Google Breaks $200; Time For Stock Split?
Spotted via SearchEngineGuide.com, this CNN/Money article Google sticker shock looks at Google breaking the $200 per share barrier this week and asks if it’s…
SideStep Allows Travel Search On Site
Travel search engine SideStep now allows you to perform searches via its web site, rather than having to do that through browser integration. More…
MSN Looks For PPC People
Andy Beal got some email about job openings at MSN relating to paid listings, which he posts at his blog: MSN Search Staffs-up for…
Survey Says: Google Workers Use Google 100 Percent!
In What Search Engines Do Search Engine Companies Use?, Nathan at InsideGoogle provides stats from Visitorville Intelligence showing what top search engines are used…
Questions & Answers Recap On Google Library
Barbara Quint does an excellent roundup of the many questions surrounding the Google Library project in Googles Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions from Information…
Defining Search Relevancy
How do you measure the relevancy of search engines? That’s a topic of discussion right now in one of our forum threads, What Is…
Comment Spam? How About An Ignore Tag? How About An Indexing Summit!
Bloggers seem increasingly upset at the comment spam they have to deal with, something driven primarily by those who seek higher search rankings by…
Search Resolutions for the New Year
Now's an ideal time to reflect on your searching habits and ring in some changes that will make you a more effective searcher in…
Talking About Search Engine Spam
Are white hatters naive by not being aggressive with SEO? Are black hatters unethical and subverting search quality by going too far with search…
The Search Engine Update – Number 188 – January 5, 2005
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the second half of December 2004.