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A Yahoo Research Labs Workshop
Those of you interested in personalization issues might want to take a look at a couple of interesting presentations (PowerPoint slides) from a Yahoo…
Recall Update
I mentioned on Monday that Recall, the datbase offering keyword access to a portion of The Wayback Machine, is no longer online. Brewster Kahle,…
Jux2 Adds New Features
Jux2, the web tool that allows you to quickly identify search engine overlap, has added a couple of new features. + You’re now able…
Clickfraud: Whose Problem, FTC, Search Engines Or Advertisers?
Adam Penenberg takes the US Federal Trade Commission to task for not doing more to prevent clickfraud in his Wired commentary, Click Fraud Threatens…
Baidu Set to Double Revenue in 2004
According to this Reuters article, Chinese search company Baidu will see their revenues double in 2004. Google holds a minority stake in the company.…
The Search Industry’s Growing Pains
If you’ve ever seen one of Danny Sullivan’s keynote addresses at a Search Engine Strategies conference, you know he is enlightening, provocative and always…
Robin Good’s Search Champs Experience
Last week, I had a roundup of various reports from Microsoft’s Search Champs. Robin Good has just weighed in with a long account of…
Search Marketing 2004: What’s Right, What’s Wrong
Danny Sullivan's wide-ranging keynote address at Search Engine Strategies San Jose prodded several raw nerves in the industry, sparing neither search marketers nor the…
Is AOL Ready to Launch a Desktop Search App?
The desktop search war continues to heat up. Michael Worthington at Beta News reports that a desktop search app might be added to new…
Google Will Expand Operations in India
During a vist to India by Sergey Brin and Larry Page the company has announced plans to expand their operations in the country. “We…
An Introduction to Exalead
Eric B. lets us know about a new web engine called Exalead. This Paris-based company has been around since 1999 and continues enterprise search…
Profits Triple at Yahoo!
Yahoo’s profits for the third-quarter tripled versus the same period last year. >From a the Bloomberg story, “Net income rose to $253.3 million, or…
FeedForAll For Feed Creation
When I wrote my Making An RSS Feed article last year, I had a few people puzzled about why it was even necessary. After…
SEMPO Gets Forum For Members, Wants More Survey Data
Barry Schwartz reports that SEMPO has opened its own forum area for members, a positive move that should help those within the organization better…
Fathom Keyword Price Index Provides Bid Benchmark
Search marketing firm Fathom Online has assembled a Keyword Price Index to show average bid prices for various industries. The index looks at the…
Problems With Searching By Date
InsideGoogle points us to the FirstMonday article: Internet time and the reliability of search engines. >From the article, “A large part of the problem…
Data Mining for Customer Intelligence
While focus groups and market research play an important role in optimizing web sites, SearchDay guest writer Heather Lloyd-Martin calls our attention to an…
Jeremy Zawodny: Yahoo Search Blogvangelist
Jeremy Zawodny is a Yahoo employee who once worked on the search side and now returns to it, as he explains more here: New…
Connecting with Customers through Search Market Research
Want to learn to improve your customers' experience, pinpoint buyers' exact interests and reach prospects at every phase of the buying cycle? Look to…
Online Advertising Will Stay a National Medium
Kevin Newcomb writes, “JupiterResearch reports that despite heavy investments in online classifieds and local search, online advertising will remain a national ad medium for…