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Highlights from the SEW Blog: Dec 30, 2005
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 28, 2005: Google Base Switches To Jump Pages, Some Publishers Ask Google Book Search To Display Pages From Their Books, Top Search Blogs Get Awards, Maps Make Saturday Night Live & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google Base sending searchers through "jump" pages, Google Book Search NOT being hacked to display books beyond what…
Patents, Google and Acquistions; What About Search Patents from Other Companies?
Loren over at Search Engine Journal points us to a post on SEO by the Sea by Bill Slawski that does an…
Full Text of Complaint Filed in Jews for Jesus v. Google Case
Last week, Danny blogged about a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Jews for Jesus against Google regarding a blog hosted on their…
The Googleshank Redemption Reloaded
Remember me writing about the Googleshank Redemption? If not, it was the story of site owner Allan Dick feeling powerless to get…
Saturday Night Live Skit Mentions MapQuest, Yahoo Maps and Google Maps
The final edition of Saturday Night Live of 2005 about 10 days ago included a hilarious “digital video short” by cast members…
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 27, 2005: Ask Drops Jeeves Name In France, YouTube For Finding Video, A9’s Amazon Discounts And MSN’s Possible Pay To Search — Will They Win Searchers & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Ask Jeeves just becoming Ask for its French site, part of future rebranding moves perhaps?; a patent revealing…
Google Faces Patent Infringement Lawsuit Over Google Talk
While doing some research, I’ve learned that Google is being sued for patent infringement over the VoIP portion of the Google Talk…
Yahoo Begins Offering Online Access to Four Episodes of CBS Sitcoms
News from Yahoo today that they are ending 2005 by providing access to four complete episodes of recently aired CBS sitcoms available…
Transcripts and Video: Authors of Books About Google Interviewed on TV
In the past few days, the authors of both recent books about Google and web search have been interviewed on tv or…
Google To Limit Photo Resolution Of Israeli Military Sites
We reported earlier about a great New York Times article looking at how various governments around the world have been made nervous…
Tracking Santa
Over on my personal blog, I mentioned how I loved to hear Santa tracked over the radio when I was a kid…
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 23, 2005: Google’s Possible Second IPO; Google Promises AOL Won’t Create Compromises; Tag Search Via Wink; Top Searches Of The Year From Ask Jeeves & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google putting its 5 percent share of AOL into a holding company that may go public in the…
Google’s AOL Stake Rolling Into Holding Company It Can Take Public In 2008
I got a research note from Ben Schachter over at UBS Investment Research flagging that Google has now filed an 8-K form…
Meta Search Tagged Content With Wink
Want to meta search across content that has been specifically tagged in various ways? New search engine Wink is now live allowing…
Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 23, 2005
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…
Ending The Year With A Google Sandbox Reexamination
Since everyone else is blogging about our Google Sandbox discussion at the Search Engine Watch Forums, guess I’d better get on it…
Google Not Buying Riya
Just to tidy up loose ends, photo search service Riya quashed recent rumors that it would be bought by Google.
WebmasterWorld Back Among The Spiderable
WebmasterWorld, which banned Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves and other search spiders last month, is now allowing them back in and thus…
What’s A Scraper Site
It’s easy to assume that everyone knows what a scraper site is. Everyone doesn’t — or at least, they know what a…
New Resource Pages About Google’s Content Network Now Available, Includes Optimization Tool
A note on the Inside AdWords blog points to this new page with a bunch of information about the Google Content Network.…
Google/AOL Deal is a Go: AIM and Google Talk To Become Interoperable, White Labelling of Google Ad Technology, and Expansion of Display Ads on Google Network All Part of “What’s New”
Reuters is reporting that the deal $1 billion deal that has Google buying a 5% stake in AOL is a go after…
Answers.com’s New “Find As You Type” Feature
We see to be talking about UI tests at Google all of the time but how about a test from Answers.com? From…
Specialty Databases (Verticals) The Focus Of A Wall Street Journal Article
A few weekends ago Wall Street Journal reporter, Kevin Delaney, gave me a call asking for a few ideas, thoughts, and suggestions…
Google & Yahoo Make Dogpile’s Top Searches Of 2005 List
The week is ending like it began, with the release of a list of Top Searches of 2005 list. Today, we hear…
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