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Google: Fastest Growing Tech Company in North America
Deloitte and Touche has just released their annual “Fast 500” rankings of the fastest growing technology companies in North America (based on percentage revenue…
Yahoo China Forms Alliances
The China Daily reports that Yahoo China has formed alliances with 12 Chinese companies and will provide them with e-mail, IM, and other services.…
Search Memories
Veterans of AltaVista, Excite and Infoseek reminisce about the early days of web search, and opine about Google, then and now.
Microsoft Search Research
At the Web 2.0 Conference last week, eWeek Senior Editor Peter Galli spent a few minutes chatting with Microsoft’s Rick Rashid, senior vice president…
Searching for Digital Books
Here are a three specialized databases that do a good job providing info about and/or access to thousands of digitized books and texts. +…
New Weblog Search Options at RocketNews
One of my favorite news search tools, Canada’s RocketNews, has added a couple of new features to make searching and limiting to weblog content…
New Blog From Charlene Li at Forrester Research
Steve R. at Micro Persuasion let’s us know (thanks Steve!) that noted search industry analyst Charlene Li at Forrester Research has started blogging. Recent…
AOL Europe and Google Expand Deal
AOL Europe and Google have announced a multi-year agreement that will bring Google AdWords paid search listings to AOL’s European properties in the UK,…
Search Marketing Off the Beaten Track
Opportunities for effective, inexpensive search marketing are abundant when you and 'think outside the (Big Search) box' and look to vertical or specialized content…
LookSmart Names New CEO
David Hills has just been named CEO of LookSmart. He will succeed Damian Smith, who has served as interim CEO since January 2004. Hills…
Copernic Releases New Version of Desktop Search Tool
Copernic Desktop Search (CDS), a product I reviewed (and still like a lot), released version 1.1 today. It includes a couple of new features…
Google’s Q3 Earnings Coming Thursday
Google will release their Q3 2004 earnings this Thursday at 4pm ET/1pm PT. The announcement will be webcast at https://investor.google.com/webcast. Many analysts are predicting…
Ask Jeeves Launches New Sales Division
Ask Jeeves let’s us know about the launch of AJinteractive, a new U.S. advertising products and sales division that integrates the AJ and Interactive…
A Groxis Update
Matt at the Merc reports about the latest goings on at info visualization tool Groxis in the article: Groxis moves up in the world.…
New Metasearch Engine: Info.com
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that a new metasearch engine from Info.com (great domain name) is launching today. Info.com employs 10, mostly Web designers and…
Brin on Personal Search and SEO
Sergey Brin let’s us know that Google is working on a personal search application similar to My Jeeves and My Yahoo Search. “We’ll keep…
Blog Glitches & I’m Away
Apologies for the come-and-gone testing posts, if you saw them. More apologies for the fact that all posts before this one now have new…
A Conversation with Matthew Koll
Gary Price checks in with web search pioneer Matthew Koll, who shares his thoughts on the current and future state of the industry.
The Search Engine Update – Number 183 – October 18, 2004
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan recap of top search engine stories from early October 2004.
New Deep Link Ratio Tool
Nice catch spotted via Tara Calishain’s blog, a Deep Link Ratio tool that will calculate your “deep link ratio.” What’s that? It tells you…