John Battelle.
Is the Butler Licensing Some Technology from Looksmart?
Search gumshoe (-: John Battelle has done some url detective work and hypothesizes that Ask Jeeves is licensing some Looksmart technology for their new ad program. Mr. B.…
Improving Image Search With User Rankings
John Battelle points at a post from Thomas Hawk where he argues that image search would be improved through tagging but more…
C:> YubNub For “Command Line” Searching & Search Commands For the Majors
Honestly, I didn’t miss leaving behind the DOS command line and getting all GUI. But there are times when I’ll still dig…
Click Fraud Roundup
A recap of recent stories and news about click fraud over the past few weeks.
Searchblog’s Battelle Launching Blog Ad Network
Wired Co-Founder Nears Launch of Blog Ad Network look at how John Battelle, author of Searchblog and the upcoming book The Search,…
Wall Street Journal On Search-Funded Spam
I’ve written before on the ironic situation of Google AdSense funding some of the spam Google has to eliminate from its indexed.…
Google Factory Tour Recap
So Google’s first Google Factory Tour has ended. Overall, I’d say it was a great success on the PR front — at…
Reactions To My Google Personalized Home Page
So the My Google service — ahem, Google Personalized Home Page — is now out. What’s being said? Here’s a round-up of…
Google Launches “My Google” Style Feature
Note: A more complete story from Search Engine Watch about the new service is now here: Google Launches Personalized Home Page Google…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Google “One-Hit Wonder”
Spotted via John Battelle, The World According to Ballmer at BusinessWeek has Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggesting that Google "may just be…
SEO Inc Tries To Silence Google Blogoscoped Over Rankings
Last month, SEO Inc apparently fell out of the top rankings for the term “search engine optimization” at Google. I felt it…
Google To Open Office In China — New Chinese Domains In Use
Google has the go-ahead from China to open its first office there, and new Google China web sites using the .cn domain…
Missions & Visions & Actions
In Missions and Visions, John Battelle talks with Jeff Weiner, who I’ve introduced at conferences in the past as Yahoo’s search czar,…
American Blind Vs. Google Trademark Case To Go Forward
Google Takes Hit in U.S. Trademark Case from InternetNews.com notes that American Blind’s case against Google over trademark infringement relating to paid…
Searching for People with ZoomInfo
ZoomInfo is a free service that's gathered information about more than 25 million people—including you, if you have even a minimal presence…
Google To Acquire Urchin Web Analytics Firm
Google is to acquired the Urchin web analytics firm, which provides both hosted and log-based tools for understanding how people are interacting…
OpenSearch: Add Your Own Search Engine To A9 (Or Potentially, Anywhere)
A9’s new OpenSearch program out today allows anyone with search results to create their own “button” that can be added to the…
Google Admits To Cloaking; Bans Itself
No, it’s not April Fool’s Day. Google has indeed cloaked pages on its own search engine and now banned those pages from…
Google Satire Times Three
Spotted via John Battelle, Through The Looking Glass Pt. II: The Google Guys is a satirical stream-of-consciousness style look at Larry and…
Google Employee Pulls Critical Blog Posts
"Life @ Google From The Inside" is the subtitle of new blog ninetyninezeros by Mark Jen, who says in the site he’s…
AOL Search Playing with the Big Guns Now
AOL Search is rolling out some new enhancements to both its proprietary client software and to AOL Web Search as part of…
Revisiting Google Censorship In Germany & France
Google Blogoscope updates sites previously identified as censored by Google in Germany and France in its Sites Google Censors post. You can…
My MSN To Gain Feed Reading & Blog Search Features
John Battelle mentioned news that the My MSN service will gain feed reading features and blog search functions, and SiliconBeat provides even…
Google Search Turns Up Possible Prisoner Abuse Photos
Via John Battelle, news of an AP reporter locating new photos through Google of possible abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers…
Google Doesn’t Seek Ad Agency
Ad Age had reported recently in its print edition that Google was seeking an ad agency. John Battelle checked into the rumor…
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