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Honda’s New ‘Crave’ Campaign Missing Search?
Honda has redesigned its bestselling CRV sport utility vehicle. There’s a snazzy flash-based site featuring the new car and a user-generated/social media component there…
Free Local Search White Paper From TeleMapics
Consulting firm TeleMapics is offering a free local search white paper, which you can get here. Called “Local Search: Time for a Tune-Up?,” the…
Search Forums Roundup: Oct. 6, 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: Google Gadgets…
Search Headlines & Links: October 5, 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…
Yahoo Gives Update On Site Explorer
Site Explorer Authentication – Some Improvements and Notes from the Yahoo Search Blog gives an update, tips and some bug fixes for those making…
Google To Subpoena Yahoo, Microsoft For Info To Help In It Book Scanning Lawsuit
Just in from Bloomberg, Google to Subpoena Yahoo, Microsoft on Book Scanning covers how Google hopes that gaining information from rival book scanning programs…
Light Posting On Friday, Oct 6, 2006
Barry Schwartz is off for Sukkot tomorrow, Friday, October 6 — and I’m away at the Frankfurt Book Fair. So the SEW Blog might…
LiveDeal Partnership Moves: Vast, SimplyHired
Within the past two days LiveDeal has announced two significant relationships: one with jobs meta search engine SimplyHired and another, today, with general classifieds…
Google Blog Search Adds Ping Support
The Google Blog announced that Google Blog Search now supports the acceptance of pings. So when you add a new blog entry and you…
Google Won Keyword Trademark Lawsuit: Rescuecom v. Google
MercuryNews.com reported last week that Google won a major sponsored keyword trademark case against Rescuecom. Judge Norman Mordue of U.S. District Court, northern district…
Search Competition; Why Can’t Others Catch Up To Google?
BusinessWeek.com has a good article on search competition, explaining how Google’s continued growth amongst all the competition is practically unaffected. In short, the article…
Hello Natural Language Search, My Old Over-Hyped Search Friend
This is a rant. It’s a rant from over 10 years of watching people trot out natural language search as the “killer” solution to…
USA Today Asks Teoma Who?
The other day, Ask.com was featured in a USA Today article named What’s Teoma, you ask? You could ask Jeeves, but he’s become ……
Google Groups Beta 2006 Gets Mixed Reviews
Google announced a new Google Groups Beta with a new design, added features and some shared features from other Google properties. In short, Google…
Google Code Search Live, Offers Code Searching For Programmers
Google Code Search is now live, a new service from Google designed to allow computer programmers and others seek out computer code from across…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Oct. 5, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the web.
New Search Patent Filings: October 4, 2006 – Using Google to find the Cable Guy
A few new patent filings from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.com. Microsoft explores the use of self organizing maps in one patent filing, and shows…
Search Headlines & Links: October 4, 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…
September 2006 Search News Recap Posted
The latest edition of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now online, recapping top stories in search from the past month. You can…
Your Name Here On Google’s Home Page
Via the New York Times Pogue’s Post, Custom Google is a way to get the Google home page showing whatever words you want in…