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New Search Patents: June 12, 2006 – More Yahoo Concepts and Google Predictive Searches
Microsoft describes the use of block level analysis to improve mobile browsing, writes of allowing searchers to customize search results, presents a query refinement system which provides concepts…
The Top 100 Companies Searched Most On Hoover’s Web site
Hoover’s released the Hoover’s 100, the top 100 companies searched most on at the Hoover’s web site. The top ten are; Wal-Mart,…
Google Calls On Users To Lobby For Net Neutrality
Google cofounder Sergey Brin might not have been able to lobby all the US senators he wanted earlier this week to stop…
Avvo Ain’t About Guacamole: It’s New Legal Search In Development
Avvo is a new legal, vertical search startup that promises to “better navigate the highly confusing legal industry.” Started by former executives…
Daily SearchCast, June 6, 2006: Yahoo MyWeb Gets New Look, More Features; Google Spreadsheets Want Your Tabular Data; The ODP Rigs The Alaskan Governor Election On Google; Baidu’s Kickin’ Commercial & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Yahoo’s revamped MyWeb bookmarking service; Google’s shot across the Microsoft Excel bow with Google Spreadsheets; Google faces another…
Search Headlines & Links: June 5, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Windows Live Mail’s Active Search: Gmail-Like Contextual Ads Next To Your Mail
Two years ago, Gmail launched with the idea of showing ads contextually based on your email. Soon after, the shit hit the…
Our Video Conference Looks Like A Winner
ClickZ’s Online Video Advertising Forum takes place in New York next week on Friday, June 16th. I must say there’s been a…
MSN adLab Launches With a Variety of Keyword Tools
MSN first announced adLab back in January, but it has now been made available to everyone (in beta) with a wide variety…
Microsoft Patiently Waiting To Advertise
Marketwatch, reporting from the D4 conference, quotes Bill Gates discussing Google as “very much the leader” contrary to Microsoft having made previous…
Google Anti-Phishing Will Be Part Of Firefox 2.0
As rumored, Google is to power the anti-phishing capabilities in Firefox 2.0. Firefox 2.0 Bakes in Anti-Phish Antidote from InternetNews.com has more…
Redfin Gets Funding and Prepares to Go National
Seattle-based Redfin.com was one of the first real estate mashups to employ a map interface as a primary navigation tool for real-estate…
Daily SearchCast, May 30, 2006: Ask’s Memorial Day Link, About Links From Google, WikiMapia, Political Google, Google Powered TV Guide & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Ask, the only major search engine that had a special Memorial Day homepage, a quick heads up on…
Ask Recognizing Memorial Day
The Ask homepage has recognized Memorial Day with an image and link to customized search results. While Memorial Day is specifically an…
Political Actions By Google In Washington Seen As Naive
Threatening everything from net neutrality to regulating companies with operations in China, tech companies must take their cause to Washington. The LA…
Google & Dell Partner: Google Software To Be Installed On Dell PCs
The Wall Street Journal reports that Dell will be installing Google software on “millions of Dell personal computers.” That means software like…
eBay & Yahoo Partner On Graphical Ads, Other Areas
Everyone is talking about the eBay & Yahoo partnership, where Yahoo will be eBay’s exclusive provider of graphical ads and Yahoo will…
MSN Talking Acquisition With Wireless Ad Provider
ThreadWatch links to a Wall Street Journal report that shows MSN is in talks to buy a wireless ad provider, Third Screen…
Windows Live Local Adds Traffic and Sharing
Yesterday some people spotted Microsofts roll out of aerial photography in the UK (and Canada). That was part of a set of…
MySpace In Partnership Talks With Google & Microsoft
The Financial Times reports that MySpace, the huge social networking site, is in talks with Google and Microsoft over partnership opportunities to…
New Search Patents: May 18, 2006 – Yahoo’s Active Abstracts are Calling
Some new patents and patent applications from the last week cover a wide range of search related topics. On Tuesday, I wrote…
Microsoft To Launch Analytics Software Today?
Ben Charny reports that Microsoft may be releasing information about their analytics software today. It is no secret that Microsoft is working…
Microsoft MapCruncher Lets You Mashup Data & Maps
Want to mashup maps and data? Microsoft’s just launched its own way to do this with MapCruncher. The site’s not responding right…
A Closer Look at Google Notebook
Google's new Notebook tool lets you clip text, images or search results and save them in online notebooks that you can share…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: May 15, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
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