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Scirus Science Search Engine Updates Toolbar
Looking for scientific information? The Scirus search engine is a favorite of ours for hunting down scientific, technical and medical information. Now the service…
Time Life Photo Archives
Gary blogged below about Time Magazine’s new article archive. This joins a complete archive of Time Magazine cover photos the company launched last year.…
Yahoo’s Plans IM/E-Mail Combo Service in China
A Bloomberg story (appearing in the International Herald Tribune) discusses Yahoo’s move to increase market share in China. Plans include offering a new service…
Shopping: About.com and PriceGrabber.com Announce Partnership
Word that About.com and PriceGrabber.com have announced a partnership. Access to the shopping database is now integrated into the About.com site. The news release…
Clickfraud: Rampant or a Manageable Problem?
Some believe that clickfraud is a huge problem. Others, say it’s around but manageable. Brian Morrisey’s article: Click-Fraud Threat: ‘Staggering’ Or ‘Overblown’? offers comments…
The Google/Yahoo Rivalry in 2005
The AP’s Michael Liedtke offers a look at what 2005 might bring to the Google/Yahoo rivalry. “We are compiling this collection of very cool…
indeed.com: A New Vertical Search Engine
Both Search Engine Roundtable and Searchblog have overview posts about a new federated search tool that allows users to simultaeously search job listings from…
Most Popular Search Terms 2004: Ask Jeeves
The Ask Jeeves list of the year’s most popular search terms is online. You’ll find Top 10 lists for the following categories: + Top…
In Praise of the Skeptical Searcher
We all know that we can’t believe everything we read on the web—but what happens when a reliable search engine (like Google) serves up…
More About The Internet Archive’s Library Digitization Project
In our article about Google’s library digitization project last week and this SEW Blog post, we noted another large library digitization project from the…
A Search Engine that Talks
BBC Online takes a look at Speegle, a search engine that reads (using synthesized speech) Google results to the searcher. If the look of…
A Skeptic’s Guide to Internet Research
In this era of drive-by searching, when most people are satisfied with just about any 'information' that surfaces in a top ten result list,…
Complete Searchable Archive of Time Magazine Now Available
Today, Time magazine released their complete archive (full text of all article back to 1923) on the web. Access to full text articles is…
Technorati Plans Expansion into Japanese Market
Technorati’s Founder and CEO David Sifry has announced that his weblog and “live web” search tool is planning to offer services in Japan sometime…
Build Your Own Topic Specific Engine With Gigablast
I’ve wondered when a general-purpose web engine(s) would begin offering a “roll your own search engine” service. No more wondering, say hello to: Gigablast’s:…
Seekport Expands Into UK Market
Seekport, a German company that has been offerering a search engine (using it’s own crawler and index) aimed at users in France and Germany…
A New Book: The Google Story
Word in Publisher’s Weekly story (sub req.) that Pulitzer Prizewinning Washington Post reporter David Vise has signed a deal with Bantam Dell to author…
Free, Legal Live Music
The Live Music Archive is a searchable repository of nearly 19,000 concert recordings that are freely available for download, avoiding the potential problems and…
Poor Relevancy and Automated Search Ads
Greg Linden points to interesting BoingBoing post about some “silly” Adword ads from Amazon and eBay showing up on Google. I’m glad to read…
Keyword Celebrex More than Quadruples in Price
In just a few days the keyword Celebrex has gone from a $.95 cent term on Overture to over $4.00, according to this article…