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Feedster Launches Developer Network
It’s a busy time at Feedster these days. + Over the weekend we told you about their new “blog” only search option. + Two…
New Report: Search Engine Disclosure of Advertising
How search engines disclosed paid advertising was quite the popular topic a couple of years ago when the Federal Trade Commission issued recommendations to…
Stale & Split Image Databases Fuel Google Conspiracy Theories
A post at AnandTech raises concerns that Google Images fails to find pictures of US soldiers involved in the Abu Ghraib prison torture scandal.…
Dulance Offers Price Tracking Via Web Feeds
Silicon Valley-based shopping engine Dulance, whose motto is, “Find Everything and Anything Sold on the Web” has announced a new service today that allows…
Searching For Images
All sorts of talk over the weekend about Google’s image database is only updated twice a year. Yes, it’s true. I’m sure Google will…
More Brin and Page Search Related Publications
It’s very likely that many of you have read, The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine (1998), by Google co-founders, Sergey Brin…
SMA-UK Posts Rules & Membership Rates
The SMA-UK search marketing organization for the UK formed last month has posted information detailing its constitution and a membership application form with rates.…
Keyword Prices Rise, But Only In Some Categories
Fathom Online’s Keyword Price Index showed a 14 percent rise from September, with the average price per keyword jumping from $1.37 to $1.55. The…
Mozilla Firefox: The Searcher’s Browser
Looking for an alternative to Internet Explorer that addresses IE's notorious security flaws and has killer search capabilities to boot? Look no farther: Firefox…
New Stuff From Feedster and Technorati
A couple of items from two of the primary players in the world of RSS and weblog search. + The Merc’s Michael Bazeley let’s…
New Options at Yahoo Shopping
This InternetNews.com story: Yahoo Launches Precision Browsing discusses some new refinement/narrowing options at Yahoo Shopping for some (not all) products. Yahoo Shopping was also…
An Hourly Visualization of the News
Here’s a new and cool info visualization tool (it requires Flash) that we just learned about (thanks J.G.) that comes from Jonathan Harris, the…
Searching Television via Closed-Captioning
Greg Linden posts about a paper by Sergey Brin and others that discusses the use of closed-captioning from television broadcasts as a tool to…
Google “Hack” Prevention
CNETAsia’s: Are you Google hack-proof?, offers several suggestions about how to keep material out of web engines. The author concludes the article with an…
More On SMA-EU and SMA-UK
Threadwatch has comments from both Mikkel deMib Svendsen, interim head of the new SMA-EU European search marketing association, along with news of the SMA-UK…
A Look at Eurekster
The New Zealand Herald article: Hunting what’s hot in social networks, takes a look at Eurekster and its founder, Grant Ryan, who hails from…
Yellow Page Companies To Buy YellowPages.com
BellSouth and SBC Communications are to purchase YellowPages.com, which they apparently hope can be built into an online business index for the United States.…
Google Posts New Ad Guidelines
In September, I wrote that Google was going to finally expand publicly its guidelines covering ads. Those new guidelines have now gone up. The…
Overture Considering Flat Rate Pricing
I’ve written before that we’ll see a move away from bidding on keywords in favor of paying for leads, regardless of the terms used…
Tier Two Alternatives for Search Marketing Campaigns
Google and Overture dominate the paid search marketplace, but there are hundreds of other PPC networks that offer compelling alternatives to the 900 pound…