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Microsoft On How To Let MSNBot In, Keep Bad Bots Out
The Live Search Blog described how you can verify if the MSNBot you see crawling your site, is truly the MSNBot from Microsoft or some rogue spider trying…
Search Headlines & Links: Nov. 22, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Search Popularity Stats, Sliced & Diced
Catch up time on search engine popularity stats. comScore and NetRatings put out October 2006 figures this week, plus Hitwise released those…
Google Beats Microsoft, Yahoo As College Grad Choice
Online Recruitment reports on a CollegeGrad.com poll showing Google is the most desired place for technology students to work for. The poll…
Can Developers & API Save Yahoo From Its Peanut Butter Crisis
Danny reported yesterday on the internal Yahoo memo that called for Yahoo to make cut backs due to them spreading out the…
Sprint Launches Mobile Search Relationship With Microsoft
According to the Wall Street Journal, Sprint has launched mobile (local) search has part of a broad new strategic relationship with Microsoft,…
Search Engines Unite On Unified Sitemaps System
In alphabetical order, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to all support a unified system of submitting web pages through feeds to…
Google, Microsoft And The ‘3-D Web’
When Microsoft launched its Live Local/Virtual Earth 3-D platform earlier this week, the memorable quote from Virtual Earth GM Stephen Lawler was,…
Windows Live Local Gets “Virtual Earth” 3-D Cities
Tomorrow Microsoft will bring dramatic 3-D mapping to the browser window. Windows Live is set to launch photorealistic 3-D imagery for the…
Windows Live Product Upload Released
LiveSide.Net reports that Microsoft launched Live Product Upload over the weekend. The tool that allows catalogers to upload their products to the…
Live Search Box Allows You To Add Live Search To Your Site
Microsoft’s Live Search Blog informed us of a new feature where you can add the Windows Live Search box to your site.…
Google Asks Microsoft To Give Users A Choice
Forbes reports that Google meet with the European Union the other day about antitrust issues. They asked Microsoft to give users a…
Yahoo To Buy AOL? Sell To Microsoft? Merge With eBay? Or Keep Status Quo?
Fortune reports that rumors are spreading that Yahoo is in talks with Time Warner about buying AOL. The article says, “FORTUNE has…
Microsoft Online Services Group Losses $136 Million in Q3
The Wall Street Journal reports that Microsoft lost $136 million in the third-quarter within the online-services group. The money is going towards…
Google 3rd Most Valuable Technology Company
Nathan Weinberg, while at a wedding, reports that Google has passed IBM to be ranked the 3rd most valuable technology company, behind…
Customized Search From Optevi And Microsoft
In writing about the launch of Google Custom Search Engine, I neglected to mention a couple of other companies doing similar things.…
Microsoft Partners With Cornell University Library For Live Book Search
The Live Search Blog announced that Microsoft has added Cornell University Library to their book search initiative. With the help of Kirtas…
A Closer Look at Google Docs & Spreadsheets
Google has integrated its online spreadsheet and word processor into a single free service that's now available to anyone with a Google…
Windows Live Search Adds linkfromdomain Command
Windows Live Search has added a new linkfromdomain command designed to show you all the sites that a particular domain links to.…
Forget Elvis, Google Is Everywhere, Says The New York Times
Planet Google Wants You from the New York Times looks at Google being everywhere, as "ubiquitous as brushing your teeth." Actually, the…
Ballmer: YouTube Overvalued & Google Transferring Wealth From Content Owners
The Web According to Ballmer from BusinessWeek has Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer questioning the value of the Google-YouTube deal and oddly warning…
Windows Live Search Mobile PPCall Deal With Ingenio
A few weeks ago Google introduced sponsored listings into mobile search. Yahoo followed last week. Now Microsoft has partnered with Ingenio to…
New Search Patent Filings: October 4, 2006 – Using Google to find the Cable Guy
A few new patent filings from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.com. Microsoft explores the use of self organizing maps in one patent filing,…
Google’s New SearchMash Test Site
Google’s gained a new unbranded site called SearchMash where it plans to test user interface ideas without Google’s brand somehow skewing the…
Amazon’s A9 Becomes, Well, Sort Of Nothing
Amazon’s A9 saw the loss of its driving force Udi Manber to Google earlier this year. Now two years after its launch,…
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