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Travel Search Continues to Heat Up
The travel search and booking sector continues to get attention most recently with the purchase of Orbitz to Cendant. InternetNews.com looks at the marketplace…
Feedster Does Job Search
New search services tools are coming fast and furious these days. Feedster is testing a searchable database of job openings culled from thousands of…
GoHook Offers Up a Database of PDF Content
We’ve just learned that GoHook is building a database of Adobe Acrobat (PDF) content. GoHook used to provide an archive of completed eBay auctions.…
Ask Jeeves UK Cuts Sales Staff
Ask Jeeves cuts back UK direct sales department Search engine Ask Jeeves has cut a number of jobs from its UK sales department as…
Vivisimo Launches New Meta Search Engine
Vivisimo, known for its clustering technology that automatically categorizes web search results on the fly, has launched Clusty, a new meta search engine with…
New Tool Blocks Paid Search Engine Listings
I wonder what Google, Yahoo and others will have to say about a new version Super AdBlocker that removes paid listings from about 20…
Dipsie Says Online “Soon”
Along with Microsoft at the MIT conference Danny mentioned was Jason Wiener who continues to say that his Dipsie search engine will be online…
Will Better Search Sabotage The Business Model?
Microsoft search researcher Eric Brill suggests that as search gets better, it will be less a money-maker: Microsoft Researcher Questions Search Engine Business Model…
Froogle UK Quietly Launched
Froogle finally moves outside the US and opens a UK edition: Froogle UK. Being based in the UK, I plan to put Froogle UK…
Microsoft 1995: Search Isn’t A Business!
Another early search history lesson from one of Excite’s founders, Joe Kraus, about when Microsoft considered buying his company. "I remember Nathan Myhrvold nearly…
Reducing Information Overkill
Vivisimo has launched Clusty, a meta search engine with an impressive array of tools that helps you quickly find relevant results from a variety…
Internet Filtering and Censorship Around the Globe
Yes, I realize this isn’t exactly search related but with so much recent attention about Google China not crawling certain news sites this new…
Search Engine Strategies Goes To China
A brief post on Alan Meckler’s blog this afternoon that the Search Engine Strategies “World Tour” will soon be to China. The SES China…
Questions from the Google Labs Aptitude Test
Both G.L. and J.B. point us to this blog post by Adam Rifkin that includes questions from the Google Labs Aptitude Test. UPDATE: Google…
Marvel at IBM’s New Multimedia Search Tool
IBM’s ‘Marvel’ to scour Net for video, audio Source: News.com Michael Kanellos writes about the Marvel project at IBM that’s building a search engine…
And Now We’re Bullish About Google
Google’s now selling for well within the initial price range it had for its offering but was forced to lower from after Wall Street…
Sellling Online? Don’t Overlook Shopping Search Engines
Specialized shopping search engines are rapidly gaining popularity. A recent Forrester survey found that nearly 20% of online users look to shopping search engines…
IBM Releases New Product that Searches Disparate Sources Simultaneously
A couple of items from the enterprise search beat. IBM uncorks Masala special brew Source: Computer Weekly IBM is releasing its DB2 Information Integrator…
Challenges in Running a Commercial Search Engine
A presentation (PowerPoint slides) titled, Challenges in Running a Commercial Search Engine (3.5 MB; PDF) might be of interest to some of you. The…
Feedster Providing Content to New IDG Product Guide
The new IT Product Guide on InfoWorld.com includes news and weblog content via the Feedster database. A bit more in this news release. co