John Battelle.
Alexa Offers Fee-Based Vertical Search Services
I guess I get to be the underwhelmed one about Alexa announcing a new Alexa Web Search Platform that’s available to anyone willing to pay a fee. Pay…
Upcoming Google Print Debates
Can’t wait for the court fights over Google Print’s library scanning program? Relax, because debates are underway to tide you over! John…
Silicon Valley Search SIG Meets This Week; John Battelle Talks 10 Years Of Search
The Silicon Valley Search SIG is having a retrospective on the last ten years of search, featuring John Battelle as a speaker.…
New Ad Targeting Options May Fuel Privacy Worries
Both MediaPost and AdAge have stories on a session at Ad:Tech yesterday on a panel about how search engines are starting to…
Searching for a Good Searching Book?
Looking for a book to help you sharpen your searching skills? Look no further—here's a compilation of reviews published in SearchDay over…
Craigslist Says No To Oodle’s Scraping
Via John Battelle, news that classified ads search engine Oodle has been asked by Craigslist to stop scraping their listings. Oodle says…
Google’s Omid Kordestani Talks; Larry Page Enjoys Timing Queries
Conversations between John Battelle and search industry officials at Web 2.0 keep pouring out of the Argent Hotel in San Francisco. This…
Barry Diller Chats with Battelle at Web 2.0
Several sources including Red Herring, SearchViews and Clickz all offer highlights of John Battelle’s conversation with the new owner of Ask Jeeves…
News.com Gets Top 100 Blog List
News.com has a new Blog 100 list, including a search and media blogs category. There’s no page for that category I can…
Semel On Yahoo Being New To Search, More Open To Google
Terry Semel at Web 2.0: "We’ll Always Be More Open Than Google" from Yahoo’s Jeffrey McManus is a very nice rundown of…
Robert Scoble Wants What We Had — Better Query Refinement. So Do I!
Robert Scoble’s just finished reading John Battelle’s book The Search and ponders creating a new chapter to follow John’s ending one on…
Google Wins Age Discrimination Suit
Google Prevails in Age Discrimination Suit from the Associated Press covers Google winning in an age discrimination suit that was filed in…
Roundup Of Google Size Announcement Coverage
Yesterday was pretty much spent by me writing my story about Google claiming to be most comprehensive search engine but also dropping…
Google’s Marissa Mayer Profiled
John Battelle called Google’s Marissa Mayer a "hummingbird" of a woman in his new book The Search, which is a great description…
More Transparency Needed On How AdWords Are Ranked?
Google Goes Las Vegas from Robert X. Cringely at PBS looks at the anecdote of someone who was paying $0.10 per ad…
Google Adds Google Print Testimonials Page
Google has added two new pages to the Google Print portion of their site. The first page offers testimonials from users about…
Daily SearchCast, Sept. 15, 2005: MSN Katrina Flyover, John Battelle’s Book ‘The Search,’ Sneaking Kai-Fu Lee In The Backdoor, Elections For SMA-NA, Google Graduates Its Personal Home Page, Yahoo’s New Instant Search & More!
Today’s search podcast covers a new before-and-after aerial photo service from MSN, thumbs up for John Battelle’s new book, a search marketing…
Two Thumbs Up for Battelle’s The Search
John Battelle’s book The Search has finally been published, and it was worth the wait. Combining a history of the search industry…
Search as the New Great Game
In years past, major powers struggled to win the hearts and minds of people by maneuvering in what Kipling called 'the great…
Opening Day In Microsoft-Google Fight Over Kai-Fu Fee
Courtroom showdown for Microsoft and Google from News.com covers the opening arguments in this week’s court fight over whether Google China chief…
Revisiting Technorati’s Blog Finder & Listing Issues
A look at Technorati's new Blog Finder service and how blog owners an improve the odds of being found within it.
“I’m Going To F*king Kill Google” – Alleged Ballmer Temper Tantrum
The Microsoft-Google fight over Dr. Kai-Fu Lee takes another bizarre turn as allegations are levied in court documents that Microsoft CEO Steve…
More On The Index Size Debate
I wrote earlier of the dispute over index size between Google and Yahoo in my Screw Size! I Dare Google & Yahoo…
Daily SearchCast, Aug. 17, 2005: Yahoo Local Upgrades, Finding Classified Ads, Yahoo & Google Tie In Satisfaction And More
Today’s search podcast covers Yahoo Local getting enhanced with new city data and user reviews, using Oodle to find classifed from across…
Battelle Excerpt: Google Goes Public
Second Book Excerpt: Google Goes Public is the latest excerpt from The Search that John Battelle has posted on his blog, from…
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