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MapQuest Versus The Mapping Upstarts
Competitors Nip at MapQuest’s Biz from the Associated Press looks at how mapping leader MapQuest, owned by AOL, is being threatened by improved mapping services and mashup features…
Google & Yahoo: The New VCs?
Two articles out this week cover how Google and Yahoo are duking it out not with each other but instead with venture…
Matt Cutts Pokes At SEO Software
Google’s Matt Cutts, clearly irritated at the many worthless SEO software pitches he sees (and many of these are worthless), does some…
Kazaa Ordered By Australian Court To Block Searches
Via Russell Beattie, Search terms on Kazaa to be blocked from ZDNet Australia has the rather disturbing order of an Australian court…
TiVo To Offer TV Ad Search
TiVo Users Soon Can Search for Ads from the Wall Street Journal covers a new "feature" from TiVo planned for next spring…
New Search Shortcuts from Yahoo
The Yahoo Search Blog points out that they’ve added a couple of new search shortcuts (They have about thirty now). What’s new?…
CustomizeGoogle Gains Blog; Pitches New Feature To Override Google Book Search Print Restriction
CustomizeGoogle (CG), the popular and award winning Firefox extension that offers numerous options to customize the search engine (including one option to…
Google: The Print Ad Company Ramps Up Hiring
In the past few months we’ve both posted and read about Google beginning to move into the print advertising biz by purchasing…
Bill Gates: MSN Search Will Soon “More than Match” Google in Terms of Relevance
In an interview with Information Week, Bill Gates talks about Microsoft Research and speaks briefly about search and of course mentions a…
Daily SearchCast, Nov. 23, 2005: Google Testing Click-To-Call, CBS Talking With Google & Yahoo, WebmasterWorld Listings Drop From Google, Preview Of SES Chicago 2005 & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google spotted testing click-to-call ads in its search results, CBS talking video search ideas with Google and Yahoo,…
Google Thinking Flash Ads?
Google Blogoscoped points out an ad spotted on Google that looked like it might have been a placeholder for a test of…
Google Begins Test of “Click-to-Call” Advertising Program
If you wondered when Google might begin offering pay-per-call ads, or at least click-to-call, it looks like the time is now. In…
The Search Engine Update – Number 209 – Nov. 23, 2005
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the first half of November 2005.
Search Marketing Working for Comparison Shopping Sites
The holiday shopping season is in full swing, and aggressive search marketing on the part of comparison shopping sites is paying off.…
Google Mini Security Issue Patched
Via WebProNews, Metasploit explains how it discovered flaws in the Google Mini enterprise search appliance that could be abused to do "cross-site…
Birth Of the Open Content Alliance, The “Un-Google” Project
A Man’s Visition: World Library Online isn’t about the US Library Of Congress & Google-backed World Digital Library program announced today but…
Froogle Offers Local Shopping Feature
Google’s Froogle shopping search engine added a new feature to let people find products and services for sale in bricks-and-mortar stores near…
Library of Congress Announces World Digital Library Project; Google Donates $3 Million To Effort
Google’s involved in another digital library program, this time one being backed by the US Library of Congress. The World Digital Library…
World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed By Library Of Congress & Google
The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library today, a project that's also just received…
Google/Riya Acquisition Update
On Thursday, we posted about a rumor that Riya, an image search company that utilizes face/image recognition technology was about to be…
WebmasterWorld Bans Spiders From Crawling
Wow. Brett Tabke drops the nuclear bomb of banning all spiders from WebmasterWorld. He explains here that heavy rogue spidering is the…
Google Rolls Back Commissions In Europe, Forward With Them In China
I wrote earlier about how Google was phasing out commissions in Europe — well, reducing them and giving them another name at…
Google’s Portable Data Centers & Alternative Internet Speculation
Google-Mart from PBS’s Robert X. Cringely covers Google apparently having developed incredibly compact data centers that can fit into a shipping container,…
Google Separates Bids For Search & Contextual Ads
Separate bidding on content network introduced by AdWords from Jen over at JenSense looks at how Google is now allowing advertisers to…
Google Temporarily Halts New Users from Registering for Analytics Service
Over on the ZDNet.com Blogs, Garrett Rogers reports in the article: Google Analytics stops at 234,725 accounts, that Google is temporarily limiting…
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