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Google Zeitgeist 05: Featuring Press & Bloggers But No Blogging Or Coverage Allowed
So I’m reading a discussion over at Threadwatch about those going to our SEW Forums Live Anaheim event next month, and member eWhisper notes he can’t make it,…
Microsoft Talks To Time Warner About Acquiring a Piece of AOL
Via a post in our forums, we learn of a NY Post article: AOL’s Time May Be Up, about Microsoft talking with…
More on Microsoft’s “Gadgets”
The other day when MSN’s API’s became available I mentioned that developers can now create Gadgets (similar to what others call Widgets)…
Maybe MSN’s API Isn’t “Way Better”
When Microsoft’s Bill Gates declared that MSN’s search API was "way better" than Google’s (and apparently Yahoo’s), I did kind of think,…
Microsoft Email On Employee Loss To Google & Sneaking Lee In The Back Door
Google exodus feared early on, e-mail reveals from the Seattle Times passes along two tidbits out of the recent Google-Microsoft fight for…
Challenges Microsoft Faces
Microsoft’s Midlife Crisis from Forbes looks at challenges ahead for Microsoft as sales for the first time show less than double-digit growth…
Looking At Google Bombs, But Not Very Well
Spotted via Phil Bradley, Deconstructing Google bombs from First Monday tries to analyze two link bombs to determine how much they are…
Daily SearchCast, Sept. 9, 2005: Google Hires Internet Pioneer Vint Cert; Google Dance Vs. Google Update; New Way To Count All Pages In Google; MSN Releasing Developer APIs; Checking Up On Charities & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google hiring internet pioneer Vint Cerf as its chief internet evangelist, defining what a Google "update" is if…
New Technique To Count All Pages In Google Index, Sort Of
Further to my previous post on the Google index update/size increase, there appears to be a new way to count all the…
New MSN APIs To Be Offered
MSN is to offer series of APIs for MSN Search, MSN Virtual Earth, MSN Messenger and MapPoint for developers who wish to…
Squeezing The Search Engine Loaf For Freshness
Phil Bradley points to this research paper, The Freshness Of Web Search Engines’ Databases (PDF), out of Heinrich-Heine-University in Dusseldorf that analyzed…
Post-Katrina Images On Google Maps, Elsewhere, People Finding Project & Wiki Resources
Post-Katrina Images are now up on Google Maps, at least for New Orleans. There’s also a variety of other images you can…
Daily SearchCast, Aug. 31, 2005: Google Selling Print Ads, Yahoo Apologizing For Ad Management Woes, France To Fund Eurosearch, SEO Blogger Sued Over Trade Secrets Allegation, Google Meets South Park & More
Today’s search podcast covers Google selling ads in print, Yahoo apologizing for ad management problems and issuing refunds, an SEO blogger sued…
Google Brings Film Showtimes and Reviews Service to the UK
Google has just introduced their film showtime and review service on the Google UK site. It operates just like the U.S. film…
Daily SearchCast, Aug. 30, 2005: MSN Tests New Home Page, Watching For AOL Beta, Google Being Into Everything & More
Today’s search podcast covers MSN testing a new home page, AOL rising as a news search player, keeping an eye on AOL…
More SMS Services Coming from Google
I was checking out the new service (U.S. only) that allows anyone with SMS access to sign-up for a Gmail account and…
Google As The New Evil Microsoft
I wrote back in May that Google was coming under more and more attacks from those who see it as Microsoft-like, but…
New Google Talk Offers Instant Messaging & Voice Chat
As widely expected, Google waded into the instant messaging space today with the debut of Google Talk, an IM client that also…
Daily SearchCast, Aug. 23, 2005: Google Sidebar Puts Photos, Feeds & More On Your Desktop, Google IM Coming?, Search Popularity Stats And More
Today’s search podcast covers the new Google Desktop Search with Google Sidebar feature to show web feeds, photos, headlines and other things,…
Share Your Search Results with Jeteye
Are you ready for some Jetpaks? Jeteye, a new shared search service, launches in beta today. The company’s founder, David Hayden, told…
Hitwise: Google Also Tops In July 2005 & Awesome Report On US Search Landscape
Similar to the comScore data I just posted, the latest Hitwise stats show Google was the most popular search engine in the…
Google Top Search Engine In July 2005; Toolbar-Based Queries Grow & Yahoo Tops There
I’ve posted the latest comScore search engine ratings for July 2005 on our comScore Media Metrix Search Engine Ratings page. As is…
Ask Jeeves Unleashes More Smart Answers
Long before MSN, Yahoo, or Google began including answers (not just links) for specific types of ready reference questions in web results…
MSN Says We’ll Slow Down The News & Feed Crawling
Yahoo’s Jeremy Zawodny noticed that MSN Search seemed to be overactively hitting his RSS feed, prompting MSN Search to respond via its…
MSN Virtual Earth: The Video
The folks at MSN Virtual Earth have publicly released this very funny video clip that has the MSN Butterfly (as portrayed by…
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