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Special Holiday Goodies, Pages, and Info from a Few of the Major Engines
Several of the large web engines are offering special holiday goodies from smart answers to holiday questions to logos to holiday borders…
Music Searching on the Web
Here are some odds and ends, an opinion or two, and lots of links to a few specialty databases that we didn’t…
Google Adds Music Search Feature
Google has introduced a new feature that provides information about music and musical artists in response to music related search queries.
Nielsen: Search Queries Up, Google Has 48% of All Searches, Ask Jeeves Soars in Search Volume
The MediaWeek article: Nielsen: Google Dominates, Local Grows, reports that new October, Nielsen//NetRatings ratings numbers have been released. Here are some highlights:…
UK: Thomson Directories and Skype Announce Partnership
How about a large local directory provider and a large VoIP service partnering and tossing in a bit of the click to…
Web Search History: Before Google Answers and Yahoo Answers There Was “Answer Point” From Ask Jeeves
How about some web search industry history? Long before two major search engines, Google and Yahoo offered Google Answers and Yahoo Answers,…
Jux2 Returns!
Jux2 the metasearch/comparative search engine that won our Best Meta Search Engine site in the 5th Annual Search Engine Awards, is back…
Answers.com Buys “Answer Extraction” Engine Brainboost for $4 Million in Cash and Some Shares of Restricted Stock
Word from Answers.com that they’ve acquired an “answer extraction” database that utilizes NLP (natural language processing), Brainboost.com for $4 million in cash…
The Fear of Google Continues as a Hot Topic and Popular News Story
What might this holidays season’s most popular item and topic be for grown-ups be? A satellite radio? A new car with GPS?…
A Look at Working at Ask Jeeves
I’m regularly posting about job openings and working life at Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, I don’t think I’ve ever included any…