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Your Search, Your Way
A new generation of search services goes beyond simple personalization, and lets you customize both your search topics and how results are presented.
See Ads? Now You Don’t! Google AdWords Rotating Out Top Sponsored Links
Google is now displaying or not displaying the top sponsored links (with the blue background) based on searcher behavior. What I mean…
Google Adds Tabs To Personalized Home Page
Last night Google has added the ability to add and manage tabs on your personalized home page. At the top of the…
Search Forums Roundup: Sept. 15, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…
Google Earth Adds Featured Content Partners
Google just announced that they launched new featured content on Google Earth from the United Nations Environmental Program, Discovery Networks World Tour,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Google News Archive Search Creep
Earlier this week Google released Google News Archive Search, and I just spotted that database being integrated into Google Search results. I…
More On Google & Blocking Privacy Proxies
Yesterday I wrote about how several proxy servers used by those wishing to search and surf anonymously had apparently been blocked by…
Former Google UK Chief Kate Burns Joins AdLink Media Company
Kate Burns, former Google managing director of UK, who has left Google in June for more family time, is reportedly joining a…
Matt Cutts Doll Gets New Clothes
We mentioned in June how there’s an online Matt Cutts doll, where you can put some virtual clothing on Google spam fighter…
Google Adjusts Minimum CPC Rates
I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable this morning that Google has made some “minor” adjustments to their minimum CPC prices. In…
Google Launches Mobile Ads On Google Mobile
ClickZ reports that Google is now testing ads on Google Mobile. The ads are being tested in U.S., U.K. and in Germany…
Google Now Searching 200 Years of News
News search services like those offered by Yahoo, Topix.net and Google are great for contemporary events, but none keep stories around for…
Google Debuts 200 Year News Archive Search
News and history junkies take heart: Google's new News Archive Search lets you search back over twenty decades worth of historical content,…
Google Updates Terminology Of Last Visit Date In Cache Results
Vanessa Fox posted an update at the Google Webmaster Central Blog on what the date and time displayed on the Google Cache…
Netscape Search Inserts Netscape News Above Web Results
What’s this? Netscape Search has changed? So says Netscape’s Jason Calacanis. What’s new? From what Jason says and I can see, the…
Google’s Click To Call In UK
I reported yesterday that Google seems to have launched Click To Call in the UK. A search on jet2 should bring back…
Google Opens Tesseract OCR Software
The Google Code Blog announced that Google has “re-released” the Tesseract OCR software to the open source community. OCR, optical character recognition,…
Bringo Click To Call Service Attempts To Help Consumers Foil Voice Response Systems
If you’re a credit card issuer, a cell phone carrier or an airline you use IVR (interactive voice response) phone trees to…
Google Says They Will Give Brazil Orkut Data
The Washington Post reports that Google will give over the Orkut data of specific users including; IP addresses with time and date…
Google Images Labeler: Google’s Challenge To Flickr?
Google Blogoscoped spotted the Google Image Labeler game, designed to help Google improve its image search results through tagging. It feels like…
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