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Former Google Employee Mark Jen Was Fired For Blogging
Yahoo blogvangelist Jeremy Zawodny has confirmation that Mark Jen was fired from Google because of his blogging activities. Until now, this was suspected but not confirmed. A Chat…
Surveying the Search Landscape
Danny Sullivan's keynote address at Search Engine Strategies has become a must-see event for conference attendees. At the Chicago conference he took…
Google and Trademark Infringment Issues Discussed on NPR
For those of you who track trademark infringement issues and search engines, National Public Radio aired a five minute story this morning…
A Few Minutes With Google Maps
I’ve just spent a small amount of time “playing” with the new Google Maps service. + The Google Maps themselves look very…
Mark Jen, Controversial Google Blogger, At Google No More
Mark Jen’s had a short but eventful stay at Google. Google Blogoscope noted earlier today a rumor that he’d left the company,…
Blogging & Breaking Search News
Today, the news is officially out that Ask Jeeves has purchased Bloglines. Some in the media were told about this over the…
Yahoo! Shareholder Meeting Set for May 19
I just received an e-mail alert that the Yahoo! Annual Shareholder meeting will take place on May 19, 2005 at 1pm EST.…
New Video Search Resources from Autonomy and Vodium
Over the past few days I’ve come across announcements about a couple of new video search products. First, Autonomy has released IDOL…
Yahoo!, Google, and AOL Place Bids To Purchase About.com
The New York Times article: About.com, Primedia’s Web Venture, Is for Sale, alerts us to the fact that the About.com property is…
New Google Maps Now Live
Google has released a new Google Maps service via its Google Labs site. Covering the United States, it allows you to drag…
Report: Most Search Marketers are Unsophisticated
The majority of search marketers are unsophisticated, despite having worked in the field for two or more years, according to a study…
Google Images Updates, Expands, Enters Main Results
Google has announced its Google Images database now includes 1.1 billion images. In addition, it confirms what some have been seeing before,…
Google Images In OneBox Display Further Supplant Main Results
We’ve had sporadic reports of Google inserting image matches into web results, and Barbara Coll just sent an example for "united states"…
Overture Says No To Guns, Sort Of
Google’s pretty well known for not allowing gun ads, which can get gun merchants upset that porn ads are allowed but gun…
Ask Jeeves To Buy Bloglines?
Postscript, the rumors are confirmed: It’s Official: Ask Jeeves Acquires Bloglines. Various places are reporting that Ask Jeeves is to acquire the…
Google’s Believers vs. Google’s Doubters
The NY Post article: Googley-Eyed, offers a solid roundup of comments from stock market analysts about Google. One group of comments comes…
A Special Super Bowl Sunday Football Logo from MSN Search
It appears that MSN Search is joining many of the other web engines in offering special logos to celebrate holidays and special…
Google is a Loser in a French Court, Again
For the second time in about two weeks were blogging about Google losing a trademark-infrigement case in France. News.com is reporting that…
Time-Warner Owns More than 5 Million Shares of Google
The Reuters article: Broadband boosts Time-Warner profit discusses the media conglmerates latest earnings and also points out that T-W is a major…
Google Annual Shareholders Meeting On May 12
The Buygoogle blog has news that even though the Google Investors Relations FAQ doesn’t yet have the date of its annual shareholders…
More Google & Yahoo Employee Blogs
I posted earlier about a list of Google and Yahoo employee blogs. Here are two more spotted via Nathan at InsideGoogle, one…
Yahoo Seeks SEM Manager
Nice mention by Barry of Yahoo wanting someone to do search engine marketing for its own properties. It’s not the first search…
Google Local Moves To Home Page But Stays In Beta
News from Google that its Google Local service has now moved to the home pages of the US-based Google site and Google…
Yahoo Testing YQ “Search By Example” Tool
Yahoo is launching a new tool that lets you submit all or part of a web page that you’re viewing as a…
IBM’s WebFountain Takes A Blow
IBM’s WebFountain search engine has gotten some attention in the past as a potential Google killer, though it was never released to…
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