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Google Releases Orkut Social Networking Service
Google has quietly launched a social networking service called orkut, named after Orkut Buyukkokten, a Google employee who developed the project during…
The Search Engine Update – Number 165 – Jan. 21, 2004
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan recap of top search engine stories from early January 2004.
Eurekster Launches Personalized Social Search
Personalized search has long been promised as an important next step for increasing relevancy. Now it comes not from Google or Yahoo…
Day of Reckoning in Search Engine Advertising
Overture's announcement that it plans to separate contextual advertising from regular search results has garnered kudos from the search engine marketing community.…
Local Search: The Hybrid Future
Last year at this time there was really no such thing as 'local search.' Fast forward twelve months and local is one…
2003’s Most Wanted Search Terms
The most popular search terms of the past year reveal as much about the interests of searchers as they do about the…
Super Searchers on Madison Avenue
In the high pressure world of advertising, researchers need to be both good and fast. In the most recent addition to the…
Google’s (and Inktomi’s) Miserable Failure
A search for miserable failure on Google brings up the official George W. Bush biography from the US White House web site.…
Search Engine Milestones for December 2003
Notable news and announcements from the web search world during the past month.
Search Engine Contextual Ads Gain Momentum
A relatively new form of search engine advertising has nothing to do with search engine results. Instead, 'contextual ads' are displayed on…