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Yahoo Displaying Checkout Icons In Search Ads
Andrew Goodman spotted Yahoo placing little shopping cart icons in some of the sponsored listings for eBay ads. Just like how Google has implemented…
Google: Banning Books In The US Is Bad; Censorship In China, Not So Much
Google’s blogging (and here) about how it is supporting the 25th anniversary of the American Library Association’s Banned Book Week by posting information about…
Your New Title: The VP of Search
What do the New York Times/About.com, Citicards and Passages drug treatment center have in common? You guessed it, a Vice President of Search, the…
Search Headlines & Links: September 12, 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…
Shakespeare Searched By Clusty
If it’s September it must be Shakespeare. Clusty has released Shakespeare Searched which is designed to provide quick access to the works of the…
The Ten Linking Commandments By LinkMoses
Eric Ward posted a fun but true list of what he calls LinkMoses Linking Commandments. But honestly, number five makes me wonder about practicing…
Search Bugs At Yahoo & Google
In the past twenty-four hours I have discovered and documented four different bugs or weird occurrences at both Yahoo and Google. I will cover…
Big Brands: Do You Know What Wikipedia Saying About You Via Google?
Steve Rubel produced a small study on the top 100 advertisers, according to AdAge, to see where in the Google rankings does the brand’s…
The Search Diggs
I love the idea of trying to combine something like Digg with search news and have been wanted to do this myself for ages.…
Windows Live Local Better, But Still Not There
Windows Live Local (WLL) came out of beta today along with Live.com and Live Search. Chris Sherman covered the full upgrade and release in…
Microsoft Upgrades Live Search Offerings
Microsoft has made a number of changes to its Windows Live offerings, including pushing some services out of beta and adding new features to…
Windows Live Search Enhanced
Microsoft has pushed Windows Live Search out of beta, enhancing a number of features and adding some seriously cool functionality to other services, as…
Search Headlines & Links: September 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…
Google Interesting Items Module: Recommend Searches, Pages & Gadgets
Google has added an Interesting items for you module to the personalized home page interface as noted in the Google Operating System blog. Google…
Ask.com To Open R&D Center in Germany
Ask.com announced a new Germany research and development center to be headed up by Eric Heymann, former head of technology at Seekport, as director…
Track Federal Spending With Government Search Engine
Andy Beal spotted an AP article named Senate backs online search of spending. Yes, the Senate wants to make it easier for normal users…
Google’s Toolbar Anti-Phishing Blacklist
Philipp Lenssen reports on a whitelist of URLs found at sb.google.com which appears to be a whitelist of safe URLs to be used for…
Google GeoTargeted AdWords Preview Tool: See How Ads Look Outside Your Region
Friday, the Inside AdWords blog announced a new feature that allows advertisers to see how their ads appear. So if you want to test…
Windows Live & Live Search Leaves Beta In The UK
It’s official — Windows Live and the Windows Live Search service you’ll find there are out of beta in the UK, plus it’s now…
Looking Back At Search & 9/11
Five years ago, like so many, I was shocked and horrified by the events of September 11. I spent the day uncertain of what…