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Google Helping Racism By Refusing To Take Down Hosted Blogs
The Inquirer reports that Google refuses to tackle racist blogs hosted on Google’s Blogger platform. These blogs have racist and neo-Nazi content on them…
Googling Google And Searching Yahoo
There is a strange feeling of deja vue with the Official Google blog entry ‘Do you “Google”?’ as we’re once again looking at the…
AOL Enhances Search with FullView Results
AOL has rolled out a slick new search interface that automatically integrates Google-powered web search results with multimedia, local or other content from AOL…
Search Headlines & Links: October 25, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately: From…
Search Influenced $15.2 Billion In Consumer Electronics Spending Through First Half
As the latest in an ongoing series of studies that capture the evolving and complex nature of consumer behavior today, Yahoo yesterday released findings…
Google Removes Dynamic Parameter Clause From Webmaster Guidelines
The Google Blog notes that they have updated their webmaster guidelines to be more up to date with their crawling and indexing technology. Since…
Customized Search From Optevi And Microsoft
In writing about the launch of Google Custom Search Engine, I neglected to mention a couple of other companies doing similar things. The first…
Face Found On Google Maps
Philipp Lenssen spotted on Digg a link to Google Maps that shows a face outline in the earth. The coordinated for the Google Maps…
Google Maps Adds “More Info” Link & Expand/Collapse Result
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google Maps has added a “more info” link on the Google Maps results. If you do a search for my…
Microsoft Removes Belgian Content Without Court Order
The Register writes Microsoft dodges court in Belgian copyright battle where they say Microsoft decided not to go to court over Belgian newspapers request…
Next Up For Sale, Digg.com
Techcrunch reports that Digg.com is looking to sell the property for $150 million. Digg’s recent discussions to sell included negotiations with News Corp, and…
Yahoo Adds NOODP Support & Weather Report Update
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that Yahoo has finally added support for the NOODP META tag. You can deploy this two ways; META NAME=”ROBOTS”…
Amazon Turns Down Google’s Request For Information On Book Search
Business Week reports that Amazon has turned down Google’s request for information to help in it book scanning lawsuit. Amazon responded to Google’s subpoena…
New Toolbar and Bookmarks from Yahoo
Yahoo has applied a major facelift to its toolbar and bookmarking feature, creating a slick new visual interface and tightly integrating your own bookmarks…
Yahoo Updates Toolbar and Bookmarks
Yahoo is releasing a new version of its toolbar with a powerful new bookmarking feature that integrates seamlessly with Yahoo web search, and features…
Search Headlines & Links: October 24, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately: From…
November Elections Mashups
Maps have long been important in politics, as anyone who works in politics or watches the TV coverage on election night knows. And then…
Google Gains Traction In Japan
InfoWorld reports that Google has “17.4 million users in September, up from 12.1 million in the same period a year earlier.” This gives Google…
President George Bush Uses Google Maps To Get Away
Justin Uberti of Google linked to a Think Progress video where President George Bush said he uses Google Maps. The transcript reads: HOST: I’m…
New Yahoo Publisher Network Home Page
Yahoo has redesigned and reorganized the Yahoo Publisher Network home page. With the redesign comes integration of the most recent YPN Blog entries, public…