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Other Q&A Services, Most Available For Free!
The new Yahoo Answers joins a long list of other answer-providing services. Here’s a recap of some prominent services that offer online Q&A. Like all answers found on…
Google Once Again Looking for Ad Quality Raters
We’ve blogged numerous times about Google and their quality rater program. A quick note to let you know that once again Google…
Survey: Google Earns Top Corporate Reputation in Only Seven Years
A Wall Street Journal article (free): Ranking Corporate Reputations, reports that Google placed third this year in the annual Reputation Quotient ranking,…
Local Search from Promising Upstarts
Local search is emerging as an important vertical service for Google, Yahoo and the other major players. But local search is still…
Exploring the Googleverse on SiliconValley.com’s Roundtable
This week the team at SiliconValley.com are running on online roundtable discussion titled: The Googleverse: Intelligently designed and evolving. Topics range from…
Latest on Insider Sales at the Googleplex
Via Nathan over at InsideGoogle, this AP article about insiders at Google selling shares of Goog shares titled: Google insiders cash in…
People Search Engine, Zoom Info, Adds New Services and Features
ZoomInfo, the Boston-based, privately-held “people search” company that we’ve blogged about several times and Chris wrote a SearchDay overview about, is adding…
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?…
Public Domain Books: More than 25,000 Full Text Books in a Single Database
Talk about online books seem to be a very frequent topic of conversation in the search world today. In the past few…
A Flaw Could Cause Problems for Google Desktop Users Who Use Internet Explorer
Google Spokesperson, Sonya Boralv, has told News.com that Google has just learned about and is looking into a possible flaw with Internet…
MSN Using Human Quality Raters to Review Results
Via Threadwatch (and its new man in charge, Aaron Wall), word that MSN Search is also using quality raters to revew and…
December Begins With Plug-In-Palooza for Google Desktop and Sidebar
The first of December has given us a bunch of new plug-ins for the Google Desktop and Sidebar. Here’s a quick list.…
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…
After Product Pitch, Google Won’t Call Back But Still Tests The Product
Spotted via Threadwatch, search tech start-up Kozoru finds that after presenting to Google, they won’t return emails or phone calls — but…
Google Brings Anti-Virus Scanning to Gmail
Word from Gmail team at Google this afternoon that they’ve just launches anti-virus scanning to the service for all incoming and outgoing…
Official Google Talk Blog Launches & All-In-One Official Google Blog Posts Page
Yet another official blog from Google, this one for Google Talk. When we gained the Google Base blog, I wished for Google…
Complaints Over Wikipedia Accountability With Bios
Daniel Brandt’s been upset over the accuracy and presence of a page about him at Wikipedia, and now John Seigenthaler, the former…
Humans Still Part Of Google Ad Review Process
Yesterday I posted about concerns over the relevancy of ads at Google and the question of whether human review was still being…
Google Looking For Interactive TV Engineers; Yahoo Needs Search Relevance and Monetization Researcher
Yes, it’s time for another Google TV job posting! This time for engineers. The title of the job is: Software Engineer, Television…
Yahoo Now Default Search Engine on Asian Versions of Firefox 1.5
Yesterday, Firefox launched version 1.5 of its browser and at the same time announced a “stratgic partnership” with Yahoo in China, Japan,…
Another Google UI Experiment, This Time With Google Images
Philipp over at Google Blogoscoped has the story about text snippets seen below each image found via a Google image search (as…
Irrelevant Google Ads, Due To Humans No Longer Checking For Relevancy?
Google, Heal Thyself is a very nice piece from Peter Hershberg at SearchViews that looks at how ads on Google are running…
Microsoft’s “Google Base” is Code Named Fremont & MS Receives Patent For Semi-Auto Annotation of Multimedia Objects
Two items from Redmond today, Microsoft with a classified ads listing service in the works pegged as a rival to Google Base…
CustomizeGoogle Offers New Option to Block Google Analytics Cookies
CustomizeGoogle is a popular Firefox extension that offers numerous (understatement) to change the look of Google pages. One options is being able…
Yahoo Sponsored Search Simulation Job & Google After API Developer Relation Specialist
You know me, I’m always perusing job listings to see if I can spot interesting positions of tnterest to SEW Blog Readers…
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