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Google Desktop Download Stats
Searchblog has some early Google Desktop download numbers via Majestic Research. According to their research, about 1.3 million unique users visited Google’s Desktop Search…
Mamma Has Plans to Acquire Copernic
Mamma.com, the Montreal-based metasearch engine has signed a letter-of-intent to acquire Copernic. Copernic, also a Canadian company, offers several desktop and enterprise search apps…
Jeeves Floats Over NYC
A “revamped” Ask Jeeves balloon (remember, he lost some weight and got a makeover earlier this year) floated over the streets of Manhattan today…
Ask Jeeves UK Offers New Features
According to Revolution magazine, Jeeves UK is now offering four search features/tools that, until today, were only available on the U.S. site. Now available…
Shopping Search Services for Advertisers and Merchants
The major shopping search engines typically crawl your site for free, but most offer merchant and advertiser programs that give you more control or…
More on Search Engine Disclosure
In yesterday’s Search Engine Disclosure: Better, but Still Wanting, I wrote about a new report by Consumer WebWatch, which evaluated the current paid placement…
Rating Search Engine Disclosure Practices
Which search engines are adequately disclosing their paid placement and paid inclusion practices? Which ones are failing to do so? A new report offers…
Updated Version of Creative Commons Search Engine Now Available
A news release on the Creative Commons site lets us know that an “updated version of their Nutch-based search tool is now online. CC…
Local Search and Yellow Pages
Kevin Ryan’s: Last Local Search Hang-ups, offers an interesting discussion about the this booming part of the search business. Last in the category of…
Keeping Secure When Using Robots.txt
Many know that the robots.txt file is a way to prevent search engines from spidering content. However, using it may also cause security issues…
Short Review Of Shopping Search Engines
From the San Jose Mercury News, Sites tell where to shop on the Web is a nice, short review of shopping search engines you…
More On SEMPO Board Elections Process
I posted earlier that SEMPO has opened nominations to elect a new board of directors. Here’s some additional information about the process. The original…
New Google Local Sites
Several sites, including Google Blogoscoped, Zorgloob, and IntelligenceCenter.com are reporting that Google Local is now online for several European countries. + Google Local France…
Desktop Search: Google vs. Copernic
Dan Verton offers a review of Google Desktop Search (GDS) and Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) in the article: Are desktop search programs ready for…
Site Building Blocks For SEO Success
Shari Thurow takes a look a key site architecture issues to consider if you’re looking for better performance with search engines. From ClickZ: SEO…
Extend Google Desktop With gdSuite
Want to limit your Google Desktop searches in various ways, such as by date or within certain folders? gdSuite is a new donationware extension…
Search Engine Disclosure Improving, says Consumer WebWatch
Back in 2001, consumer watchdog Commercial Alert filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against a number of prominent search engines over…
More On Google Sues AdSense Affiliate For Clickfraud
Stephanie Olsen has a nice News.com story out about Google taking on one of its own AdSense affiliates in a lawsuit over clickfraud that…
More Insider Sales at Google
Plenty of press attention (and an SEW Blog post) last weekend about Brin, Page, Schmidt, and others selling some shares. We just learned (via…
A Positive Look at the Butler
The USA Today’s Jefferson Graham with a positive look at Ask Jeeves in the article: In search, the butler did it. Jeeves has its…