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WebFetchPro UK Metasearch
WebFetch Pro is a multi/meta search engine creted by InfoSpace and it promises to give you the ‘best search results available on the Web’.…
Google Earth Helps Cops In Drug Bust
The Journal Times reports Sheriffs in Racine County used Google Earth to pinpoint the locations of marijuana fields in the County. Officials arrested Dean…
Yahoo Finance Adds New Web 2.0 Stock Charts
Gary Price reports that Yahoo has upgraded their charting software to offer new web 2.0 like charting features. By visiting a stock summary page,…
YouTube Deletes 30,000 Japanese Media Files & Deals With Record Labels
Reuters reports that YouTube erased 29,549 films and media files after receiving a complaint from “Japanese media companies over copyright infringement.” Around the same…
Google Definitions In Dutch?
Threadwatch reported that a search on [what is executive search] in Google brings up a Google web definition result in Dutch. The question is…
Yahoo India’s CTO To Join Google As R&D Lead
Steve Bryant reports that Prasad Bhaarat Ram, Yahoo India’s CTO, has been hired by Google to lead the research and development office in Bangalore.…
Search Forums Roundup: Oct. 20, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: Link Building…
Google Releases 2006 3rd Quarter Results
Google has released their earnings for the third quarter of 2006. You can find the earnings summary at Google’s press center. Bloomberg summarizes the…
Search Headlines & Links: October 19, 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…
Heading On Vacation
After I post the daily search headlines next, I’m officially on vacation for the next two weeks. Barry Schwartz will own the blog, so…
Publishers & Authors Consolidate Lawsuits Against Google
MarketWatch reports that a judge has consolidated two different cases against Google to make the process quicker and more “streamlined.” Book publishers and book…
Searching Via Internet Explorer 7 & The Battle To Be The Default Search Engine
Now that Internet Explorer 7 has been released in final format, I wanted to look at how search is being handled within the browser.…
Google Hires Pizzella Of GSA’s FirstGov
FCW.com reports that Google hired M.J. Pizzella to work at Google’s Herndon, VA office to “help Google better understand and solve the government’s technology…
United Press International Selling PageRank
Threadwatch reports that the United Press International is selling links based on PageRank values. If you visit the advertising section, specifically for text links…
Click Fraud Dropping Amongst Google & Yahoo
News.com reports on a new Click Fraud Index study that shows the click fraud rate dropping from 12.8 percent to 11.9 percent in the…
Display Your adCenter Ads On Microsoft’s Content Ads Network
The adCenter Blog has an open invitation to register for U.S. Content Ads. So if you are an adCenter advertiser and you want your…
Google To Set Up 2nd R&D Office In Israel
Reuters reports that Google is going to open a second research and development office in Israel. This office will be located in Tel Aviv,…
Verizon Announces SuperPages Spin Off, To Be Called “Idearc”
Ending several months of speculation Verizon announced yesterday that its SuperPages unit would be spun off as a separate company, to be called, somewhat…
More On Instant Answers, from Microsoft
Part two of our four-part series on “instant answers” provided by Ask’s Smart Answers, Yahoo’s Shortcuts, Google’s OneBox results and Microsoft’s Instant Answers is…
A Closer Look At Microsoft’s Instant Answers
Continuing our four-part series on the special information sections creeping into general search results, today we take a look at Microsoft's Live.com Instant Answers.