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GuruNet Becomes Answers.com and Is Now Available Free!
Some exciting news for the web researcher to begin the year. GuruNet, the very useful and formerly subscription-based ready-reference web database and client app, full of fast facts…
Defining Click Fraud
Sure, concerns are rising about clickfraud — but do we even know how to define what a fraudulent click is? ClickZ gets…
Update: Google on 60 Minutes
The Google story on 60 Minutes just aired and a summary of the story is now available here. This summary was posted…
Search Publishers Not Friends Of Agencies, SEMs
Spotted via SearchEngineGuide.com, Buy Your Own Search Listings from iMediaConnection, Kevin Ryan writes of a concern I’ve heard from many search marketers…
Google Scholar’s New Advanced Search Interface
The Google Scholar team has released an advanced search interface. You can now limit your search by: + Publication Title (No syntax…
Christmas Lights, Hoaxes, and Google Ads
For your, “it’s always something” and your “it’s easy to create a hoax” on the Internet file… According to an AP article:…
New Patents for Google, IBM, Yahoo & Others
I mentioned in a post about IBM yesterday that Big Blue has been racking up plenty of search patents. You’ll see several…
Positive Press for the Butler
The LA Times Chris Gaither looks at Ask Jeeves in the article: Which Search Engine Firm Is Coming Back? The aim for…
Tips For Search Marketers Following The Google-Geico Ruling
Matt Naegar, one of our legal panelists at SES Chicago and general counsel for search marketing firm IMPAQT, looks at the Google-Geico…
Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 23, 2004
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…
Asking Search Engines Who’s The Top Search Engine
It’s been done before, but Gord Hotckiss takes a fresh look at what comes up tops for a search for “search engine”…
Search Year In Review, With A Laugh
Peter Da Vanzo’s 2004: The Search Engine Year in Review article over at SearchEngineBlog.com (soon to gain the rightful tag, The Original…
Google, Yahoo Post 2004 Most Popular Search Terms
The list of most popular search terms from 2004 continues, with Google weighing in today. The 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist gives you:…
A Conversation With MSN’s Justin Osmer
Internetnews.com’s Susan Kuchinskas had a chat with MSN product manager Justin Osmer last week during SES and her report is now available.…
Searching for Joy in All the Wrong Places
Here’s a trick question: When you’re looking up a phone number, would you use a dictionary or an encyclopedia? Neither? Good answer.…
Google Now Blocking Santy Worm
The good news is that Google is now blocking the Santy worm. The the bad news is that people in the antivirus…
Web Worm Uses Google To Spread
News.com reports that a web worm named Santy is utilizing Google to help it spread to web bulletin boards using the PHP…
The Google/Yahoo Rivalry in 2005
The AP’s Michael Liedtke offers a look at what 2005 might bring to the Google/Yahoo rivalry. “We are compiling this collection of…
In Praise of the Skeptical Searcher
We all know that we can’t believe everything we read on the web—but what happens when a reliable search engine (like Google)…
A Search Engine that Talks
BBC Online takes a look at Speegle, a search engine that reads (using synthesized speech) Google results to the searcher. If the…
A Skeptic’s Guide to Internet Research
In this era of drive-by searching, when most people are satisfied with just about any 'information' that surfaces in a top ten…
Poor Relevancy and Automated Search Ads
Greg Linden points to interesting BoingBoing post about some “silly” Adword ads from Amazon and eBay showing up on Google. I’m glad…
Marketing Head Cindy McCaffrey Leaving Google
Forget PageRank. If Google had a secret weapon (or two or three) to count toward its incredible successes, Cindy McCaffrey was a…
Desktop Search Matrix Available
Goebel Group, a systems intergrator, has put together a handy matrix that allows you to compare the easily compare the capabilities of…
Second-Tier Engines Provide Low-Priced Leads
Brian Morrisey at DM News writes that although second-tier engines don’t get the traffic Google and Yahoo offer, they do provide low-priced…
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