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Three Newspaper Publishers Acquire 75% of Topix.net
Congrats to Rich Skrenta and his Topix.net team. Today, the company is announcing that a group of three newspaper publishers (Tribune, Knight-Ridder,…
Tagging Not Likely The Killer Solution For Search
In case you’ve missed it, there’s been an explosion of interest in “tagging,” the idea that if everyone labels photos, blogs and…
NetRatings Search Popularity & Loyalty Figures
A look at new search popularity and loyalty figures from NetRatings for January 2005.
IAC-Ask Jeeves 2005 Vs. IAC-Lycos 1999 & The Need For Being Inclusive
I just listed to the investor webcast about the proposed InterActiveCorp-Ask Jeeves deal. My first thought was how familiar it sounded to…
5th Annual Search Engine Watch Awards – Nomination Form
Nomination form for the 5th Annual Search Engine Watch Awards.
Engine Manipulation, Verticals, and the Library
Adam Penenberg offers a profile of WebGuerrilla’s Greg Boser in the Wired article: Search Rank Easy to Manipulate. While I’m sure many…
Google X: Icons Above Search Box For Specialty Search
Google X is a nifty new interface for hitting Google’s specialized services. Instead of the usual hyperlinks that site above the search…
Claria Unveils Behaviorial-Based Search Ranking
Claria hopes its new RelevancyRank system will let it improve the results of major search engines or perhaps offer its own improved…
Mobile Access to Your My Yahoo RSS Feeds
As Danny pointed out the other day, mobile access to info and search services continue to be of interest to me. Services…
Bush “Miserable Failure” Bio Turns Link-Only On Google
File this under interesting but perhaps nothing, big on the perhaps nothing part. I was checking on the infamous miserable failure search…