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Ask Mobile Search Launches
Ask.com has launched a mobile search product at m.ask.com or mobile.ask.com. Ask Mobile is optimized for mobile devices and uses Skweezer throughout to improve…
Search Headlines & Links: October 11, 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…
Selling Information in a Free Web World
The web has disrupted virtually every business model that relied on packaging and selling information. But is the information found on the web “good…
Google Master Plan Hacked (OK, Erased)
Several Google offices now have "master plans" written on dry erase boards, but the original one at the Googleplex is probably best known. Googlers…
Google Office? How About Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Now Launched
Google’s taken its Writely online word processor, combined it with the Google Spreadsheets product released in June and put the two out in a…
Google’s “False & Deceptive” Search Ads
Ben Edelman’s False and Deceptive Pay-Per-Click Ads analysis looks at specific ads on Google.com that seem to violate Google’s editorial guidelines and perhaps US…
Url.com – Results Ranked By Users
The ability to rank or rate results delivered by search engines is slowly becoming more commonplace, and I’m noticing that one or two multi/meta…
Cool New Real Estate Tools
The real estate vertical is one of the most interesting online segments for several reasons. Among them are the tools that have been developed…
Yahoo Hurting While Google Healthier Than Ever
The NY Times has an article named Yahoo’s Growth Being Eroded by New Rivals (free version available at (IHT.com). The article goes through how…
Weather Reports: Yahoo Search Update & Google Status Report
We received two search “weather reports” last night, the first from the Yahoo Search Blog that announced that an “index update” that has begun…
MySpace Threatens YouTube After Google’s Buyout
A Wall Street Journal article shows how the folks over at News Corp., the owners of MySpace.com, have threatened to cut “off the MySpace…
Yahoo To Support The NOODP Tag; Won’t Prevent Display Of Yahoo Directory Title
Last night, I spoke with Tim Mayer of Yahoo about supporting the NOODP tag at Yahoo. In short, the NOODP tag allows webmasters to…
The Ongoing Struggle of Free vs. Fee
Does information really want to be free? If so, how can traditional information publishers and aggregators deal with shifting value propositions and revenue models…
Search Headlines & Links: October 10, 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…
Will Voice-Enabled Mobile Search Kill Directory Assistance?
Local media research firm The Kelsey Group just forecast “portal-backed wireless voice search [will] reach 1.45 billion queries in 2010″ and cause “a significant…
Google Blog: Please Get Descriptive With Your Headlines!
A public rant, and I’m sorry — but I’ve had it with the Official Google Blog having post headlines that give people no idea…
Justin Uberti, AOL’s Top AIM Developer, Hired By Google
Steve Bryant reports that Justin Uberti, who has been with AOL for about 10 years and working on AIM for almost 9 years, has…
Maharashtra Farmers Fight Government With Google Earth
IBN Live reports that Maharashtra farmers are using Google Earth to fight back against a government ruling that they would take 25,000 acres away…
Google To Set Up R&D Office In South Korea
The Associated Press reports that Google is setting up a research and development center in South Korea. The details of the size of the…
Court Issues Notice To Google For Allegedly Spreading Hate In India Via Orkut
The Times of India reports that Google is in hot water over Orkut once again, this time for allegedly spreading hatred for India. The…