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Wishing For Better Anchor Text Searching
I’ve written before that on my wishlist would be for Google and its competitors to offer the ability to search for links across the…
Accoona Launches, But Isn’t Ready for Prime Time
New search engine Accoona launched with great fanfare last night, but hold the applause. It's a promising start, but testing shows Accoona isn't yet…
More on the Yahoo-branded Line of Consumer Electronics
I mentioned over the weekend that I had just learned about a Yahoo-branded DVD player. More about the new Yahoo line of consumer electronics…
Yahoo Japan Begins Earthquake Info Service
Here’s a neat idea that could save users time and aggravation accessing important information. Kyodo News reports that beginning Tuesday, Yahoo Japan will place…
MSN’s Spelling Correction Software & Local Search
The msnsearch WebLog has a post about the spelling correction software developed for the new MSN Search. To improve the speller we worked with…
New Search Engine: Accoona Launches
Accoona, a new web engines and business research tool, has just gone live on the web. We’ll have an overview article in tomorrow’s SearchDay.…
Google vs. Yahoo Story on CNBC
CNBC just ran a Cory Johnson piece about coporate arch rivals. Today’s story looked at Google vs. Yahoo. Here are a few quotes: “The…
More On Lycos Reselling SEM
Earlier I mentioned concerns some search marketers had that Lycos was offering/reselling SEM services. Shari Thurow takes a look at this in her ClickZ…
Spin the MSN Search Wheel
IMediaConnection offers a look at one part of Microsoft’s ad campaign for their new search engine offering comments from two experts and the ad…
The Once and Future Internet
What did the future look like to the cognoscenti of the information industry in 1993? Mining Google Groups’ vast Usenet archive is a great…
Google Search Turns Up Possible Prisoner Abuse Photos
Via John Battelle, news of an AP reporter locating new photos through Google of possible abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers that might…
Fathom KPI Finds Prices For Consumer-Targeted Keywords Rise Again
Fathom Online’s Keyword Price Index for November showed a 7 percent rise from last month, with the average price per keyword jumping from $1.55…
DoubleClick Says Black Friday Was Good For Search Marketing
DoubleClick has released figures relating to search marketing over the "Black Friday" post-Thanksgiving heavy shopping weekend that found traffic, conversions and spending was up…
The Future of the Internet, Eleven Years Ago
It seems hard to imagine, but the Internet was still a wild frontier just a decade ago. But at a leading industry conference of…
Research: Searching Handwritten Documents
What about being able to search handwritten documents? Searchblog with a post about research underway at the University of Massachusetts to do just this.…
Citysearch Debuts Pay-Per-Call Service
More pay-per-call services to report on. Citysearch has launched a pay-per-call service called PFP-Calls. The new product allows local merchants to track business leads…
My Ask Jeeves Comes to Jeeves UK
Ask Jeeves UK The MyAskJeeves “personal search system” is now available on the Ask Jeeves UK site. MyAskJeeves UK offers the identical save, store,…
A Yahoo! Branded DVD Player
Ready for some Yahoo brand/logo licensing? Say hello to the Yahoo DVD player. I just noticed a press release and a blog posting about…
Google Registers Three Domain Names
Google registered a few domain names last week. Here’s a list of what I was able to identify: On December 1, 2004 Google Inc.…
Video: Eric Schmidt Lectures at Stanford’s Business School
I just discovered an archived version (RealVideo) of a lecture E.S. gave at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in April 2004. It runs…