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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…

By Gary Price · 11 Oct 2004

SEO

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.

By Danny Sullivan · 11 Oct 2004

Industry

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 11 Oct 2004

Industry

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…

By Gary Price · 11 Oct 2004

Industry

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…

By Gary Price · 08 Oct 2004

Industry

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 08 Oct 2004

Social

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…

By Gary Price · 08 Oct 2004

Industry

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 08 Oct 2004

Industry

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 08 Oct 2004

Local

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…

By Gary Price · 08 Oct 2004

PPC

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 08 Oct 2004

Analytics

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 08 Oct 2004

Industry

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 08 Oct 2004

SEO

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…

By Gary Price · 07 Oct 2004

Mobile

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…

By Gary Price · 07 Oct 2004

Industry

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 07 Oct 2004

SEO

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 07 Oct 2004

Industry

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 07 Oct 2004

Industry

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 07 Oct 2004

Industry

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…

By Catherine Seda · 06 Oct 2004