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On AOL’s Plans
Short article in the Wall Street Journal today (sub req) about AOL’s move plans to offer moore free content for non-subcribers. John Buckley, an…
Bloglines Goes International
Bloglines, the popular web-based RSS aggregator and blog search tool has just released “international” versions of the service. You’re now able to access Bloglines…
Former Compaq CEO Takes Top Job at Search Company
Eckhard Pfeiffer, the former CEO at Compaq, has been appointed as CEO at new business search engine Accoona. Accoona, set to launch on Monday…
Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 3, 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: The Great…
Forbes.com Ends Embedded Ads
Remember all of the attention Forbes.com received a few months back when they decided to embed advertising hyperlinks into editorial content? Ad Week reports…
Google Research Centre Opens in Tokyo
A new Google Research Centre has just opened in Tokyo according to this Computer Weekly story. If you’re wondering: 1) What type of R&D…
A Great Search Tool for Firefox
A quick reminder about a wonderful search tool for FIrefox I wrote about in February. I think it’s worth mentioning again since Firefox has…
Schmidt Begins Selling, Rosing Sells More
The conclusion of the Fred Vogelstein Fortune article I just blogged discusses insider selling at Google. Well, it looks like the planned sale of…
Feedster Makes “MSN Spaces Only” Search Available
Feedster is making a “specialized” interface available that searches ONLY MSN Spaces weblogs. Go to: https://spaces.feedster.com. You can read more about it on Scott…
Google: Fortune’s Cover Story
The December 13, 2004 issue of Fortune arrived today with Brin and Page on the cover. It asks the question, “Is this company worth…
MSN’s Third Portal To Gain Blogs; Where’s The Blog Search?
MSN is now offering blogging space through its new MSN Spaces service, making it the third major portal to jump into this area. The…
Blogger’s Google’s Third Most Popular Service, Says Founder
I reported earlier that Google says Google Groups is its third most popular service. But not so, says Blogger founder Evan Williams. Williams, who…
Q&A With Technorati’s David Sifry
Technorati is a great site for spying on what people are saying about a particular web page or blog entry. In Tracking the net,…
Google Toolbar NOT For Entertainment
Earlier I’d blogged how a forum poster said they were told by Google support that the Google Toolbar PR values are “for entertainment purposes…
Fighting Spam At Yahoo Through Content Classification
Over on the Yahoo Search Blog, An Interview with Tim Converse touches on some of the things Yahoo does to shape relevancy and fight…
Google Toolbar PageRank Display Just For Entertainment
All too often, I’ve wished the Google Toolbar’s PageRank meter never existed. Site owners obsess over what it says, fixating on PR scores as…
MSN Rank Checker & Other Gadgets
Search engines have generally disliked rank checking tools, so what a surprise to read on the official MSN Search Blog a tip about one.…
Behind The Scenes Of Google’s Tech
The magic that makes Google tick from ZDNet has a look at technical details behind delivering Google searches. But, I’ve got a few quibbles:…
Most Of Google Remains In Beta
Google’s release of a new Google Groups service today ironically causes the majority of features offered via the Google home page to be in…
New Google Groups Opens To Public
The new Google Groups service unveiled in beta form last May has now officially replaced the old Google Groups, exposing more Google users to…