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A Look at Infospace
Pete Barlas at Investors Business Daily, takes a look at Infospace in the article: Search, Mobile Markets Help Internet Firm Bounce Back. The company…
Overcoming The Flash Challenge With Search Engines
Shari Thurow provides some strategies on dealing with Flash and search engine friendliness in ClickZ: Get Flash Sites Ranked in Search Engines.
Client Parameter Makes Google Report Fewer Matches
Using the Firefox Browser? Search for "the" using the built in search box that taps into Google, and you’ll get about half the results…
No More Recall
I just learned that Recall, the search tool that provided full text search access to about 1/3 of The Wayback Machine database (about 11…
Search and Cluster the CIA WMD Report with Clusty
The folks over at Clusty (aka Vivisimo) have just released a search/cluster version of the CIA WMD report that was released on Wednesday. In…
Publisher Reactions To Google Print; What About Authors?
New Google Service May Strain Old Ties in Bookselling from the New York Times today has some nice quotes on how publishers are reacting…
E-Mail Alerts at Feedster, RSS Feeds at Yahoo
+ Scott Johnson has let everyone know that Feedster’s E-Mail search alerts are finally working correctly. He even thanks me for the motivation to…
Web 2.0 Search Wrap-Up
O’Reilly’s put out its official wrap-up of various things discussed that were search-related at its Web 2.0 conference: Search: The Current and Next Big…
Where’s The Privacy Freak Out Over Search Personalization?
Alan Chapell raises a good question in his Amazon.com’s A9 Adventure article. Why haven’t privacy advocates freaked out loudly and in large numbers about…
New Travel Search: Take a Trip with Kayak
Kayak, a new travel search meta site that I’ve mentioned several times on the SEW Blog, has just launched a beta version. Kayak, simultaneously…
FindWhat To Carry Verizon SuperPages Paid Listings
Local paid listings from Verizon’s SuperPages program are now to be distributed though FindWhat’s distribution network. More details from the FindWhat press release. Last…
Top Coders Say Google Is Tops
TopCoder.com polled its 44,000 members worldwide about their favorite search engine. A much smaller number actually voted, 450, and they really like Google. It…
Google Demos Word Clustering
Andy Beal has a nice write-up of Google showing off its word clustering tools at the recent Web 2.0 conference: Web 2.0 – Exclusive…
IceRocket Launches Blog Search
IceRocket, the new search engine that investor Mark Cuban calls his “toy” now offers weblog search. Loren over at Search Engine Journal has the…
Google & Synfonic Both Launch SMS Search Tools
Google has a just launched a new site that allows you to search and access content via SMS (short message service/text messaging) that’s very…
Google PageRank Update Underway
If you’re one who obsesses over Google PageRank scores (you shouldn’t, but people do), you’ll be happy to know that the little PageRank meter…
Thanks For Your Horrible Link Request
As part of my Intro To Search Engine Marketing session at our Search Engine Strategies conferences, I always have a segment on link building…
Some Google Print Follow-Ups
In my article on Google Print yesterday, I noted in the version for SEW members that electronic copies of books aren’t being accepted at…
myGoogle Search Aims To Refine Google Results
myGoogle Search is NOT from Google, and somehow I suspect the letter asking for a name change will be coming from the lawyers at…
Contextual Ads: Vital to a Search Marketing Campaign?
Are you bidding on keywords through Overture's Precision Match, Google's AdWords or another pay-for-placement service? If so, you're eligible to participate in their contextual…