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Yahoo Lowers Ad Deposit To $5

First Yahoo eliminated its $20 per month minimum spend requirement for search ads last month. Now today, the Yahoo Search Blog has announced that the minimum deposit to…

By Danny Sullivan · 07 Nov 2005

Local

Getting the Airfare Buzz from Kayak.com

Kayak Buzz from travel search engine/aggregator Kayak allows the searcher to see what are the “‘best fares'” to the most searched destinations…

By Gary Price · 07 Nov 2005

Mobile

Google Local Goes Mobile

Adding to its various search services for mobile phones, Google has introduced Google Local for mobile, a stripped down version of its…

By rumo · 07 Nov 2005

Industry

Google Launches Local for Mobile

Google's new Local for mobile service is a stripped-down version of the web-based Google Local that puts a heavy emphasis on maps…

By Chris Sherman · 07 Nov 2005

Industry

Google Offers AdSense Referral Fees

Google has introduced a new program that allows AdSense publishers to garner fees for referring users to Google. Publishers add a referral…

By rumo · 04 Nov 2005

Industry

Details Emerge on Google Force One

When Google co-founders Page and Brin purchased a used Boeing 767 earlier this year, details were sketchy. Today the Wall Street Journal…

By rumo · 04 Nov 2005

Industry

Google Desktop 2 Leaves Beta

As Gary noted, Google Desktop 2 has left beta. In addition to several product enhancements, Desktop 2 also has new third-party panels…

By rumo · 03 Nov 2005

Industry

Riffing on GoogleBase

Over at MediaPost, David Berkowitz has some interesting commentary on the potential ramifications of GoogleBase, the sometimes-on but still mostly offline service…

By rumo · 02 Nov 2005

Local

UK: Thomson Directories Now Powering Local Search Results On Tiscali UK

A quick note from the UK search scene. Netimperative reports that Thomson Local listings are now being used for local searches on…

By Gary Price · 01 Nov 2005

Industry

New Research from Stanford on the Truthful Auction Pricing of Keywords

A new research report was just published online from the Stanford InfoLab! that might worthy of your attention. Here are the details.…

By Gary Price · 01 Nov 2005

Industry

Reacteur.com is now Mozbot

Mozbot is a search engine built on top of Google natural and paid search results, with a number of additional features not…

By rumo · 01 Nov 2005

PPC

Major Ad Networks Working on Behavioral Targeting

We already have the ability to target ads in relatively sophisticated ways, with various types of matching schemes, as well as geotargeting,…

By rumo · 01 Nov 2005

Industry

Special Logos From Engines For a “Scary” Halloween

Spooky and scary logos from Ask Jeeves, Google, and Yahoo today for Halloween.

By Gary Price · 31 Oct 2005

Industry

Review: Google and Yahoo Hiring Booms

Those of you who look at our blog regularly know that we try to post interesting and “telling” job openings at Google,…

By Gary Price · 31 Oct 2005

SEO

Is Google Ad-Server Shopping?

The New York Times gave Google about a million miles of ink this weekend with Google Wants to Dominate Madison Avenue, Too…

By rumo · 31 Oct 2005

Industry

Google Working on Open Office, After All

Despite recent articles claiming that a Sun-Google hosted desktop productivity suite and common operating system, ” is way off base,” word comes…

By rumo · 31 Oct 2005

Industry

Searching for Library Books with RedLightGreen

Google Scholar isn't the only online service that can help you track down and read scholarly or academic books and other content.…

By Gary Price · 31 Oct 2005

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Oct. 28, 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:…

By rumo · 28 Oct 2005

Local

Accessing Flight Info on the Web

Since we first blogged about Google offering direct links to online travel databases (Expedia, Travelocity, Orbitz) a few days ago if city pairs…

By Gary Price · 28 Oct 2005

Industry

Cool! 3-D Imagery of the Moon Now Available via NASA’s World Wind

Before Google Earth and Google Satellite began receiving the well deserved attention it receives each day, a similar 3-D open source, imagery…

By Gary Price · 27 Oct 2005

Video

Google Makes Digitized Archive of Interviews with TV Legends Available Online

Can a day go by without Google making an announcement? I’m not so sure. Today’s news from Mountain Viewis that more fully…

By Gary Price · 26 Oct 2005

Industry

Microsoft Announces MSN Book Search; Joins Open Content Alliance

Microsoft, yes good old Gates, Ballmer and crew, are getting in on the online books digitization game and more. I can’t say…

By Gary Price · 25 Oct 2005

Industry

Google’s New “Travel” OneBox

Looks like John “The Search” Battelle has caught yet another Google onebox on web search results pages. This new (I haven’t noticed…

By Gary Price · 25 Oct 2005

Industry

Google Funds Open Source Development Initiative at Two Oregon Universities

A news release from Google (they never slow down) announces that the folks in Mountain View are getting together with the two…

By Gary Price · 25 Oct 2005

Industry

Is Google Print Headed for Congressional Hearings?

The Google Print story (specifically, the Google Print for Libraries aspect of it) continues to make headlines. No, not another lawsuit but…

By Gary Price · 25 Oct 2005

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