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Candidates Missing Out On Search Ads
From Business 2.0, an interesting article saying that political campaigns are failing to consider search in their marketing mix: Political Campaigns Are Missing the…
Yahoo Local Officially Launches
After just two months in testing, Yahoo has pushed its local search out of beta and is giving the service prominent exposure on the…
MSN Search Preview Back Online
MSN has just released a new preview of its forthcoming new search engine with more documents and additional features.
Yahoo Local Leaves Beta, Graduates to Yahoo.com
Yahoo Local moved out of beta moments ago, launching with a cleaner look and feel, improved relevance and a significantly expanded database of local…
Yahoo News Results as an RSS Feed
Online about about a month ago, officially online today, Yahoo News has added a link on every search news search results page (right column)…
WebSearch University
A post on the Yahoo Search Blog late Friday by Jon Glick, Sr. Manager of Yahoo Search reports on his visit to WebSearch University…
How Much RSS?
For your stats folder. A post on the Topix.net blog lets us know that the amount of RSS content from news organizations is not…
Gigablast Grows
Gigablast, the useful search tool that searches its own database of web content, has grown. An update on the Gigablast home page today informs…
FyberSearch Launches Blog
Nathan Enns, the developer of FyberSearch, the small but feature-filled engine that I mentioned last Sunday, alerts us to the just launched FyberSearch News…
Keeping Googlers at Google
Lisa Baertlein’s article, Google Challenge: Keeping Wealthy Workers, takes a look at Googler “retention” issues post IPO. Baertlein mentions that more employee “perks” are…
Google Norway & Kenya Up
Via the Google Blog, the company has opened two new sites for Norway and Kenya. And we learn that Google in Norwegian apparently means…
Feedster’s Rafer Not Happy With Clusty
Feedster’s Scott Rafer isn’t happy that the new Clusty search engine is hitting his site without a licensing agreement, in comments he’s left at…
Second MSN Search Tech Preview Online Briefly
A second technology preview of MSN’s new search technology was online briefly for testing today. MSN says that it was run in a small…
MSN Messenger To Gain Search
The beta for MSN Messenger 7, due out Monday, will add search capabilities to its client. Yahoo Messenger has offered this for about a…
A Chat With Findory’s Greg Linden
Searcher magazine (a popular publication in the library and info industry) has just published an interview I did with Findory Chief Executive, Greg Linden.
Comparison Shopping Engines and the Small Retailer
In Comparison Shopping Threatens Smaller Sites, (posted on the WSJ’s StartupJournal site, registration not required), Jeannette Borzo takes a look at comparison shopping databases…
FindWhat Opens AdRevenue Xpress Contextual Ads Program
FindWhat joins Google in offering self-serve contextual ads for publishers. The system also allows publishers to add sponsored search listings to their site, similar…
Microsoft’s “Search Champs”
Next week the MSFT Redmond campus will welcome a group of bloggers, researchers, and others interested in search to a two day event called…
Blink 2.0 Coming Soon
An InternetWeek article, Search Underdog To Take On Google, Microsoft, And Amazon, lets us know that a Blinkx 2.0 beta will be released in…
Ask Google Answers: Is the Googleplex on Fire?
Boy, the folks at Google Answers sure get some oddball questions. Yesterday someone posted a question under the subject google headquarters, flammability of, offering…