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Yahoo Time Capsule Project Launched
Yahoo has created the Yahoo Time Capsule, what it calls the “first-ever electronic anthropology project” to document human life in 2006. You have about…
Sizing Up Search Engine Instant Answers
The major search services have all be increasing their efforts to deliver focused “answers” to many types of queries. They each take a different…
Recapping Coverage Of Google’s Acquisition Of YouTube
I don’t have a ton to say about the Google acquisition of YouTube. That’s because to me, it’s more an eyeball landgrab than a…
A Closer Look at Ask’s Smart Answers
Ask.com has truly differentiated itself with the "Smart Answers" it returns for thousands of queries, offering facts, images and targeted links that respond directly…
Google To Acquire YouTube In Stock Transaction
It’s real and was just confirmed. It’s a stock transaction that will close in Q4 and will enable YouTube to operate independently. See below…
Search Headlines & Links: October 9, 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…
Cingular Wireless Voice-Enabled Mobile Local Search
More and more directory assistance (DA) is starting to morph into voice-enabled mobile (local) search. This piece in the NY Times over the weekend…
Coke Counters Bad PR With Search Ads
Coca-Cola Counters Critics With Search Ads from MediaPost covers how Coke is using search marketing to get the word out about a court victory…
Microsoft Partners With Blinkx On Video Search
Blinkx signs Microsoft pact from Reuters covers how video search company Blinkx is expected to announce today a partnership with Microsoft to power Microsoft’s…
Windows Live Search Mobile PPCall Deal With Ingenio
A few weeks ago Google introduced sponsored listings into mobile search. Yahoo followed last week. Now Microsoft has partnered with Ingenio to deliver pay-per-call…
Official Google Blog Gets Hacked After Message On Security
The Official Google Blog was hacked over the weekend, happening embarrassingly after Google had just posted about how seriously it takes security. It’s also…
Search Headlines & Links: October 6, 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…
Google Calls Operational Pause On Products & Yes, New Rollouts Were Hurting Search
Google Puts Lid on New Products from the Los Angeles Times is great news from Google — Sergey Brin leading an attitude change of…
Google News – Porn Edition?
Barry Schwartz emailed me to take a look at the entertainment section at Google News a little while ago. No, Google’s not gone into…
New Search Patent Applications: October 6, 2006 – Google Takes Over the Patent Office
There were some interesting new patent applications this week from Yahoo, Microsoft, and IBM, but nothing on the scale of the outpouring of intellectual…
Yahoo Messenger Worm Targets Google AdSense Click Fraud
The Register reports that a new malware worm has been discovered that targets Yahoo Messenger, sends those users to pages with Google AdSense ads…
Google Acquisition Of YouTube Rumor
Speculation about a potential acquisition of YouTube by Google is heating up. The Wall Street Journal reports and here’s more coverage and buzz. Previously…
Google Print Helping Book Sales
Despite a skeptical publishing community some publishers are seeing increased sales from Google’s book scanning project. Reuters quotes several publishers as seeing increased sales.…
MySpace: Not Just For The Under 30 Crowd
As a kind of twist on that old 60’s mantra, social networking’s slogan might have been: not for anyone over 30 — or so…
Hitwise: ‘Social Local Search’ Growing Fast
Hitwise’s LeeAnn Prescott, who presented at SES Local, has posted some of the data she showed at the conference. In this particular example, what…