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Is AOL Ready to Launch a Desktop Search App?
The desktop search war continues to heat up. Michael Worthington at Beta News reports that a desktop search app might be added…
An Introduction to Exalead
Eric B. lets us know about a new web engine called Exalead. This Paris-based company has been around since 1999 and continues…
The Next Search Titan: Comcast?
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured a wide-ranging interview with Comcast CEO Brian Roberts. Comcast has grown into the USA’s largest cable-TV operator,…
AOL Testing Listings from Classifieds on Search Results Pages
AuctionBytes reports about a new AOL advertising project. >From the article, “[AOL] appears to be in stealth mode with another ecommerce-related service…
Search Engine Executive Roundtable, Part 2
How do the search engines view search marketing firms? What are the growth drivers of the industry? And Is the search 'bubble'…
Search Engine Executive Roundtable, Part 1
What's happening in search today, and where is it headed? Danny Sullivan grilled top honchos from AOL Search, Ask Jeeves, MSN Search…
New Data On How Paid Ranking Translates Into Traffic
A new study from Atlas DMT tries suggests that top rankings do indeed equal lots of clickthrough and traffic, at least in…
The Paid Inclusion Dinosaur
Why would Yahoo and other search engines do paid inclusion? Money is a big reason -- the ability to earn off what…
Google Offers Banners & Image Ads — But Not On Google Itself
Google has debuted a new graphical ad option for its advertisers -- the ability to run banners, skyscrapers and other image-based ad…
Search Engine Results Chart: April 2004
Chart shows how major search engines get their results from crawlers, human directories or via payments.