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Search Through US Presidental Debate Transcripts
Want to search the transcripts of the US presidential and vice presidential debates? A new service from askSam makes it possible. Thanks for the…
Overture Opens Ambassador Program To Traditional Ad Agencies
Overture’s long-standing Ambassador program for search engine marketing firms is now allowing interactive and traditional ad agencies to participate. More details from ClickZ in…
Google More Profitable – But Why?
Google’s stock price has been hitting new heights, with some financial analysts speculating it will reach $200 per share. Why the excitement? Google had…
New Shopping Engine: Cairo.com
The Contra Costa Times reports in: Sale item search engine sniffs out local deals, reports on Cairo.com, a new “locally focused” shopping search engine…
Microsoft Desktop Search Beta Coming Soon
News.com reports in the article: Microsoft fixes date for desktop search tool, that the company will offer up a beta release of a desktop…
Blabble Launches Blog Engine
Blabble, a company that offers intelligence mined from weblogs (a fee-based service), has just released a free blog search engine. The results are very…
Nestorov’s Mobissimo
We’ve blogged about travel search sites and tools like Mobissimo, Kayak, Yahoo FareChase, and SideStep in the past. In the new Business Week article:…
Does Google Plan to “Steal” Microsoft Engineers?
Google already has a sales office in Seattle but this Seattle Times business brief let’s us know that the company is opening another office…
New Search Marketing Association in the UK
>From the press release: “A working group of search engine marketing professionals in the UK has come together to plan the formulation of a…
Yahoo Acquires Stata Labs
Yahoo has purchased another email startup, Stata Labs. The acquisition follows Yahoo’s July purchase of Oddpost, a provider of web based email. Stata Labs’…
Goodman on Clickfraud
There is an increasing amount of attention being given to clickfraud these days. Danny linked to a couple of articles in his post: Clickfraud:…
Google Reports Q3 Earnings
Google has reported earnings of $.19/share for Q3 2004. Revenue rose 105 percent from a year ago to $805.9 million. Google-Sites Revenue-Google-owned sites generated…
More SMS Search In the U.S.
Wireless access to information via cell phones and smartphones continues to gain steam here in the U.S. As you know, Google SMS launched a…
Yahoo Announces Size Increase to Image Database
Word from Yahoo this afternoon that they’re announcing a size increase, what they’re calling an upgrade, to Yahoo Image Search database. According to the…
Search Friendly Site Redesign
If you’ve worked hard to get good search engine rankings, it’s understandable if you’re concerned about changing your site, even if it desperately needs…
Retaining Traffic after a Web Site Redesign
Your site gets great traffic from search engines, and yet it needs a new design. How can you freshen up a site without risking…
Google Repairs Security Flaw
In the article: Google fixes security hole, Stefanie Olsen reports that Google has fixed a flaw that was first reported on a Bugtraq list…
Early Web Search Announcements
On the heels of today’s SearchDay article: Search Memories, some of you might enjoy reminsicing about the “early days” by taking a look at…
Google Advertising Forecasts Obtained by the SF Chronicle
Verne Kopytoff at the San Francisco Chronicle has once again gotten access to some internal Google documents. These dccs show that the company is…
Memories of Search Engines of Yore
In the mid 1990s, a couple of Stanford graduate students visited the popular search engines of the day, offering to license new technology they…