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Overture Expanding To Brazil, Canada, China
Overture’s sent news that beginning the fourth quarter of this year, it will expand services to cover Brazil, Canada and China (with apparently separate…
Search Spending Continues To Rise — But Contextual Is Lumped In
In the second quarter of this year, paid search advertising was nearly $1 billion — a 29 percent rise from the same period as…
Redirection Problems With Google, Yahoo
A month after it was raised during a session of the Search Engine Strategies show, and even longer since it was raised on various…
Google On Hiring Spree For Nooglers?
Google Picks Gates’ Brains from the New York Post talks about Google being on a hiring spree. It’s unclear to me whether this is…
New SEO Contest: Seraphim Proudleduck
Now that the Nigritude Ultramarine SEO contest is history, it was only a matter of time until copycat contests emerged. Here’s a new one:…
New AOL Comparison Shopping Site Debuts
After about 18 months of development, a new version AOL’s shopping product is online today. The search and product comparison technology at In-Store.com is…
Ask To Release My Jeeves Personal Search Tomorrow
It’s fairly common that we and other news outlets are prebriefed about upcoming search features, agreeing to "embargo" the information until an agreed release…
French SEO Firms Appear Banned By Google
Several major French SEO firms have apparently had their sites and some of their customer sites banned by Google over spam accusations. All are…
New York Company Files Suit Against Google
Rescuecom files trademark suit against Google Source: Central New York Business Journal The Google legal department continues to be a busy place. Another Adwords…
Report: Yahoo Music Service Coming Later This Year
Yahoo to launch its own music player Source: ZDNet >From the article, “…Yahoo is planning to launch its own online music service later this…
Call for Speakers – Search Engine Strategies Stockholm
Do you have a compelling search marketing success story? Here’s an opportunity to tell your story at the upcoming Search Engine Strategies conference in…
Yahoo’s Semel Contender for Disney CEO Job
Yahoo’s Semel emerging as contender for Disney CEO Source: San Jose Mercury Dawn C. Chmielewski and Michael Bazeley report in The Merc that Yahoo…
An Chat with Sir Tim Berners-Lee
A Chat with Sir Tim Berners-Lee Source: InternetNews.com In the interview Sir Tim talks about standards, browsers, and the semantic web. On a related…
Ask Jeeves Local: CitySearch Data Begins Appearing
In early August Jeeves announced a deal that would bring CitySearch local and business data to their database. Content would likely appear as “Smart…
Microsoft Research Gets Serious About Search
Microsoft Plays Up Search in Research Reorganization Source: Microsoft Watch Several new “search oriented” groups have formed after a reorganization at Microsoft Research. The…
Search Forum Roundup: Sept. 17, 2004
Today’s SearchDay article, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, has links to this week’s topics from search engine forums across the web: Amazon Launches A9 Search…
An Interview with Rob Wilk
Web Search Ad Field Finds Itself Changing Source: Investors Business Daily Doug Tsuruoka conducts an interview with Rob Wilk, the director of search engine…
Jeeves: Profits from New Site Will Go to Red Cross
The “good idea” award of the day goes to AJ. Ask Jeeves announced this morning that they’ve teamed up with the Red Cross to…
a9’s Secret Weapon: Discounts For Searching?
What might help Amazon draw users away from Google, Yahoo, MSN and others to its new a9 search engine? How about 1.5 percent off…
SearchStatus Puts SEM Info Into Firefox Toolbar
I just downloaded the Firefox browser yesterday, and now I’ve got a cool new tool to plug into it. SearchStatus lets you see both…