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Daily SearchCast, Jan. 13, 2006: Barry Diller Keynoting SES NY; MSN Ramps Up Ads; Google Local’s Blue Balloon Ads Pins; Promo Or Ad On Google Homepage?; Business Partnering With Yahoo; Browser Fight Over Search & More!
Today’s search podcast covers IAC chief Barry Diller keynoting Search Engine Strategies NY 2006 next month; MSN making moves with local search ads and regular search ads; Google…
Google Experimenting With Drop-Down Boxes
Google Experiments with Dropdown Navigation over at Google Blogoscoped has Google taking a page from Lycos circa 1998 and putting various search…
PC World Talks Web Mail Betas and Desktop Search
An article in the the January 2006 issue of PC World offers a brief look at web mail betas from Yahoo (I…
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 27, 2005: Ask Drops Jeeves Name In France, YouTube For Finding Video, A9’s Amazon Discounts And MSN’s Possible Pay To Search — Will They Win Searchers & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Ask Jeeves just becoming Ask for its French site, part of future rebranding moves perhaps?; a patent revealing…
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 23, 2005: Google’s Possible Second IPO; Google Promises AOL Won’t Create Compromises; Tag Search Via Wink; Top Searches Of The Year From Ask Jeeves & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google putting its 5 percent share of AOL into a holding company that may go public in the…
MSN Getting Cleaner Look In The Microsoft Three Portal Strategy
I want Microsoft to pick a portal brand and go with it. We’ve had MSN. Then this year, we got the new…
WebmasterWorld Back Among The Spiderable
WebmasterWorld, which banned Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves and other search spiders last month, is now allowing them back in and thus…
Governments Ask Google to Turn a Blind Eye
Some of those incredibly detailed aerial images available using Google Earch are making some governments nervous. In Governments Tremble at Google’s Bird’s-Eye…
Time Warner Investor Works to “Derail” Rumored Google/AOL Deal
Legendary investor, the 24th richest man in America, and a major holder of Time Warner stock, Carl Icahn, is not happy with…
A Brief Look at Mobile Mail Access from Yahoo and MSN
As Chris pointed out late yesterday, an official version of Gmail is now available for mobile devices with a web browser. This…
New Year Will Bring New Look to Yahoo Search Results Pages; Shorter Descriptions for Sponsored Listings
Several people (thank you) have shared with us a copy of an email that was sent to Yahoo Search Marketing customers this…
Search Execs Talk at MIT Forum
Via Searchblog, word of this just released podcast of a forum that took place at MIT about a week ago and featured…
Customize Your MSN Live.com Home Page with Widgets
We’ve posted a couple of items about the new Google Home Page API in the past few days but I’ve mentioned (my…
Yahoo Top Searches Of 2005
Top search terms of 2005 week continues. We’ve had Lycos, AOL, A9 weigh in already on the most popular searches this year.…
Nielsen: Search Queries Up, Google Has 48% of All Searches, Ask Jeeves Soars in Search Volume
The MediaWeek article: Nielsen: Google Dominates, Local Grows, reports that new October, Nielsen//NetRatings ratings numbers have been released. Here are some highlights:…
Vote For Your Favorite Search Blog
Loren Baker over at Search Engine Journal is asking people to vote for their favorite search blogs. Hey, if you like us,…
Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 9, 2005
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…
How Does Ask Jeeves Get Its Advertising Point Across?
Along with the awesome coverage by Barry and Phoenix of SES Chicago, here’s another story from the SES Cconference via DMNews.com. This…
Google and Microsoft Play “The Price is Right” with AOL
According to a Reuters story (via News.com): Microsoft, Google still vying for AOL: that proposals from both Microsoft and Google have been…
Google Once Again Looking for Ad Quality Raters
We’ve blogged numerous times about Google and their quality rater program. A quick note to let you know that once again Google…
IM Info Bots Come to MSN Messenger
BetaNews reports that MSN has release two new IM “bots” (type in a query and get an automated response) for MSN Messenger…
A Look at Working at Ask Jeeves
I’m regularly posting about job openings and working life at Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, I don’t think I’ve ever included any…
Yahoo Impulse & Search Behavioral Ads
Yahoo using online behavior to target ads from Reuters covers briefly the “new, new thing” according to Yahoo executive vice president Greg…
MSN Looking For Search Champs
MSN has had prior rounds of Search Champs, where it has invited people in to give feedback and ideas for directions in…
What’s New in Shopping Search 2005
The second installment of Shopping Search Week 2005 features a rundown of key changes and new services offered by the major players…
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