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MapQuest Versus The Mapping Upstarts
Competitors Nip at MapQuest’s Biz from the Associated Press looks at how mapping leader MapQuest, owned by AOL, is being threatened by improved mapping services and mashup features…
TiVo To Offer TV Ad Search
TiVo Users Soon Can Search for Ads from the Wall Street Journal covers a new "feature" from TiVo planned for next spring…
Bill Gates: MSN Search Will Soon “More than Match” Google in Terms of Relevance
In an interview with Information Week, Bill Gates talks about Microsoft Research and speaks briefly about search and of course mentions a…
WebmasterWorld Out Of Google & MSN
Well, that didn’t take long. I wrote on Monday about how WebmasterWorld head Brett Tabke decided to ban all search spiders including…
MSN Powers UK’s Times Online; Ask UK Scales Back Ads
Two brief items from the UK search scene today. + Revolution Magazine reports that MSN Search (MSN.co.uk) will power web search on…
Yahoo and MSN: New Patent Apps Published
Patent applications from Yahoo and MSN dealing with user annotations, trust networks, and domain specific database creation and searching were published today…
Access Local Gas Prices via SMS with Synfonic
When we chat about SMS-based (text messaging) search we usually include the big players including Google, Yahoo, MSN (their real-time traffic alerts…
Daily SearchCast, Nov. 16, 2005: Google Base Goes Live; Yahoo’s Community Spirit; MSN Desktop Search Comes To Offices & More!
Today’s search podcast covers the new Google Base service that allows anyone to submit any type of content to Google, Yahoo’s collision…
MSN ‘s Live.com and Start.com Offer “Feed” Only Search Tab
It looks like MSN continues to slowly release its feed search tool. In August, Danny and others posted about two “undocumented”* pieces…
MSN Begins Beta Testing New Homepage
MSN officials have posted that they’re now testing a beta version(s) (IE only for now, Firefox support “coming soon”) of the MSN…
Daily SearchCast, Nov. 8, 2005: Google’s Jagger Update, Book Search Developments, Google Base As Database For Everyone, Programming TiVo Via Yahoo, The Google Guys’ 767 & More!
Today’s search podcast covers updates at Google and Yahoo, developments in book search at Google, Amazon and MSN, Google growth into new…
Why We Use Various Search Engines
InternetRetailer has done some nice charts off of a Majestic Research/comScore report looking at why we use particular search engines (for Google,…
MSN & British Library Partner On Book Search Project
We wrote earlier that MSN was getting into the book search game. Last Friday, another piece of the puzzle came out. MSN…
Getting the Airfare Buzz from Kayak.com
Kayak Buzz from travel search engine/aggregator Kayak allows the searcher to see what are the “‘best fares'” to the most searched destinations…
Google Print Now Publishing Out-Of-Copyright Works Gained Through Library Scanning Program
Google Print is now publishing the full-text of public domain/out-of-copyright print works it has acquired through the Google Print library scanning project.…
MapStats Wins MS Virtual Earth Contest
I was just was reading the Via Virtual Earth site and noticed that a winner has been announced in Microsoft’s Virtual Earth…
On Microsoft Live, Live.com and Start.com Personalized Portals
Plenty of coverage of Microsoft’s new Windows Live services today: Live from San Francisco: Bill Gates on Next-Gen Software Gates: We’re entering…
Microsoft Announces MSN Book Search; Joins Open Content Alliance
Microsoft, yes good old Gates, Ballmer and crew, are getting in on the online books digitization game and more. I can’t say…
Ballmer On How They “MSN You” in Holland, Korea & Google Was Curing Cancer
Gary wrote earlier of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer recently denying any chair throwing at a conference, but Good Morning Silicon Valley highlighted…
The MSN PageRank 2 Controversy & Search Engines Needing To Offer Domain Management Tools
As part of the current Google update underway, it’s been noticed that MSN now has a PageRank score of 2. What’s the…
Ted Meisel Leaving Yahoo
Ted Meisel is one of the smartest, far-thinking people I know in the search ads space. He should be, as the last…
Daily SearchCast, Oct. 19, 2005: Another Google Print Lawsuit, Gmail Gets a New Name in the UK, Yahoo Reports Q3 Earnings, New Smart Answers from Ask Jeeves, and More!
Today’s search podcast covers a publishers group suing Google over Google Print, Gmail Now Known as Googlemail in the UK, MSN adCenter…
MSN’s “Invite Only” adCenter Pilot Launches in the U.S.
Word from Redmond that the MSN’s invitation only adCenter pilot that Danny blogged about on October 13th, was officially launched in the…
Google Ready to do Some Lobbying in D.C.
Zachary Rodgers offers some analysis of Google’s new Washington D.C. lobbying office in the article: The Search Engine’s Lobbyist. Some companies do…
Good Clickthroughs Like Getting An Ad Discount
Brand Discounts at the Major Engines has Kevin Lee talking about a brand discount, but don’t get excited that big brands are…
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