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Community-Based Search Engines
A list of search engines where volunteers or members of a community help create the listings, such as by contributing bookmarks, managing categories or…
Google Sued Over Google Scholar Name
The legal department at Google is a busy place these days. On Monday, the Geico v. Google trial begins in Virginia. Today, Searchblog has…
Newsknife Names Top News Sites for 2004
Newsknife, a site that ranks the 4,500 sites crawled by Google News for relevance and quality, has released its list of the top online…
Yes, AOL Desktop Search Uses Copernic!
Deep in my write-up on Yahoo’s desktop search plans earlier today, I recapped the status of desktop search for the other players including AOL.…
“Cluster” the U.S. Federal Budget
Vivisimo has a new specialty interface online today that allows you search/cluster the U.S. FY 2005 Budget which runs over 1600 pages in print…
Pay-Per-View Media at Google?
Susan Kuchinskas at Internetnews.com takes a look at how a patent application titled, “Method for searching media” authored by Larry Page, might offer clues…
Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 10, 2004
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: SEO Thoughts…
Google Suggest Offers Query Refinement
Google is long, long overdue to provide query refinement tools that other search engines have had for ages. You know, like if you search…
More “Local” Versions of Google News Available
The other day we mentioned that a French language version of Google News Canada had just launched. Today, the Google Blog lets us know…
Yahoo Details Desktop Search Plans; Ask Jeeves & MSN Launch This Month
Yahoo has announced that it will release a desktop search product after the New Year, putting the search engine firmly in the desktop search…
Yahoo Desktop Search Comes In January, Ask & MSN Later This Month
Yahoo has announced that it will release a desktop search product after the New Year, putting the search engine firmly in the desktop search…
Geico v. Google Trial Scheduled to Begin Next Week
The trademark trial is scheduled to get underway on Monday in Alexandria, VA. This article in National Underwriter has a review of the case…
Yahoo Adds Shopping Tab on UK Site
A new tab/link for shopping has been added to the Yahoo UK interface at uk.search.yahoo.com. A Yahoo Shopping search here runs on the Kelkoo…
Morerover Launches “Ping” Server
News aggregator Moreover has announced that a new Ping server is available to notify them when new content is published. Details here and here.
Google Goes Down to Georgia
Walter Woods, a reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, does some investigating to learn more about Google’s new data center near Atlanta. You can read…
Omidyar Invests in Feedster
The Omidyar Network (Pierre Omidyar, Founder and Chairman of the Board of eBay) has made an undisclosed investment in Feedster. “We recognize that Feedster…
Searching with Your Social Network
In our day to day lives, we all rely on word-of-mouth recommendations from friends and associates. Tapping into knowledge and experience from people we…
Google Guys are Fascinating, Sergey Sells
The Google Guys are fascinating. That’s what we learned last night on the Barbara Walters’ Most Fascinating People of 2004 program. A bit more…
Forrester Stats, Search Defection & Vertical Search
Charlene Li shares some stats from internal Forrester research about search loyalty in The battle for search loyalty drives innovation. Is Google facing defections?…
GooHoo! – Marketers To Run The Search Asylum
Search engines face a number of challenging issues, as the industry continues to develop. Should they censor listings? Should they ban ads linked to…