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Latest Search Patents
Gary’s a search patent watcher extraordinaire, and in yesterday’s SearchDay, he provides a round-up of recent search patents awarded to Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, IBM,…
More About Affiliate Pressures On Paid Ad Relevancy
Earlier, I discussed the pressures that affiliate ads place on the relevancy of paid search listings. Andrew Goodman has just posted an article on…
WebmasterWorld Conference Coverage & More
Search engine marketers have gathered in Las Vegas for WebmasterWorld’s World Of Webmasters Search Conference that runs three days this week. A rundown on…
Managing the Firehose of Real-Time Information
RSS feeds, search alerts and other information monitoring technologies are great, but often end up providing too much of a good thing. PubSub is…
New Personalized Features at RocketNews
RocketNews, the news and blog search engine (about 11,000 sources) is online with a new look (layout and color scheme) and some new features.…
Mobissimo Officially Launches
A press release this morning alerting us to the news that travel search engine, Mobissimo has officially launched. We’ve blogged about this travel metasearch…
Google CEO: The Next Killer Device Is A GooglePod
At a tech summit at Google HQ yesterday, Eric Schmidt talked about a “killer” info tool he’s thinking about, let’s call it the GooglePod.…
Blogger Now Available in Nine Languages
New Versions of Blogger Available Infoworld reports in: Blogger goes multilingual, that Google is now making interfaces and documentation available for Blogger in nine…
Keeping SEO Secrets
Nick from Threadwatch has an interesting post today about how the real "secrets" of SEO never make it onto search forums. I agree, but…
New Robots.txt Tool
The robots.txt file allows you to prevent search engines from indexing documents on your web server, assuming they respect the convention. Most major search…
Yahoo Provides Access To Library Records
Via the Yahoo Search Blog, news that a special version of the Yahoo Toolbar now allows you to search across two million library holdings…
New Search Related Patents
Keeping up with newly issued patents for search-related technology can help you spot emerging trends and potentially new competitors to the existing major web…
Google Publishes Quarterly Report
Although Google’s earnings announcement was a couple of weeks ago, the GOOG 10-Q (quarterly report) was unavaible until today. If you like numbers, here’s…
MSN Search Insider Offers Look At MSN Searches
Ian over in our forums gives a heads-up of a new MSN Search Insider feature that has sprung up. It shows the top 200…
SMA-EU Launches Blog
Threadwatch reports that SMA-EU, the European search marketing organization that’s forming, has launched a blog. The blog has news on the group’s development.
Google Unlikely To Ban Trademark-Linked Ads
John Battelle reports on a rumor out of a WebmasterWorld.com thread that Google might ban affiliates from purchasing ads linked to trademarked terms. But…
MSN Search Blog Comments On Evil & Rumors
If you thought the Yahoo Search Blog was edgy ( I have, compared to the Google Blog), the new MSN Search Blog is even…
SEMPO Posts Revised Governance Documents
Earlier this month, the SEMPO search marketing group approved a variety of new governance documents, such as new bylaws, anti-trust guidelines and articles of…
Moving Forward With Microsites
Running a paid listing campaign but feel maybe your existing site doesn’t work well to convert? Rather than redo the entire thing, consider creating…
Another Cool Firefox Search Tool
In my Firefox series last week, I overlooked one of the browser's most powerful search functions: An 'always on' find as you type feature.