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MSN Toolbar with Desktop Search Officially Launches
After five months in beta, Microsoft has released the final version of its desktop search application, incorporating many new features based on extensive user feedback.
AOL Launching Free Email But Not “Creepy” AdSense Ads
AOL is to offer free web-based email, initially to users of its AIM instant messaging client, then later to anyone. The move…
MSN Employee Who Hacked AltaVista Pleads Guilty
A few eyebrows were raised last year when an MSN employee was accused of hacking into AltaVista. The actions happened before Laurent…
Early Results from Search Engine Relevancy Challenge
Early results from Barry Schwartz’s Search Engine Relevancy Challenge have just been posted. About 3,200 results have been rated so far and…
Study: Don’t Forget About Financial Services Searchers
The DMNews article: Financial Services Searchers Shouldnt Be Ignored from DMNews.com reports on the findings from a Compete/Yahoo Search Marketing study. [The…
Google Faces Customer Satisfaction & Advertiser Trust Issues
Google: biting the hand that feeds it? from CNN Money shows Google slipping in some aspects of customer satisfaction among advertisers. An…
Ask Jeeves Accused Of Pushing Adware
Anti-spyware writer Ben Edelman pokes at Ask Jeeves in his Does Jeeves Ask for Permission? article up today. He finds that the…
Yahoo Bolsters Personal Search
That didn’t take long: Last week, reviewing the new Google My Web Search service, I wrote “don’t expect Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, MSN…
Viewing the Search Landscape
Which search engine appeals most to U.S. searchers? Which service is the most popular elsewhere in the world? It depends on who…
Mobile Access to Info: See The Traffic
Yes, I’m the mobile search/info guy and although what follows isn’t exactly search and might only be of immediate value to those…
Search Marketing In My Kitchen — Or It’s Still Tough To Get The Little Guy Online
We’ve written before of how the search engines want to tap into the local market, those small businesses that aren’t even online.…
NetRatings Search Popularity Stats For March 2005 & MSN’s Share
I’ve posted new search engine popularity statistics from NetRatings for March 2005, and you can now view a line chart showing the…
SEO Criminals
I mentioned the Search Champs are meeting again up at Microsoft. Spotted via Threadwatch, one champ Mary Hodder takes a swing at…
Not Quite A Fair Shopping Comparison Test
Jason Dowell in Comparing Search Engine Results – My Experiment at Search Engine Guide decides to pit shopping search engines against each…
MSN Surveys Web Searchers
While perusing the Sympatico/MSN.ca home page this afternoon I noticed a link to a 19 question “search survey” that MSN is asking…
MSN Results Coming to InfoSpace Sites
InfoSpace is announcing that they’ve just inked a two-year deal with Microsoft to add MSN web search results to both their branded…
Yahoo Acquires TeRespondo Latin American PPC Search Network
Yahoo has acquired TeRespondo, a Brazillan PPC search network that plays in the Latin American market. Clickz’s Kevin Newcomb writes in the…
MSN Steals Head Of Yahoo Labs
MSN tells us it has just hired Dr. Gary Flake as a distinguished engineer, the first such external hire for a distinguished…
Online & Search Spending Rose In First Quarter 2005
Internet Ad Spending Up In First Quarter from MediaPost reports of a new study finding online ad spend continued to grow in…
Ars Technica Reviews Desktop Search Tools
Via Greg Linden’s blog, Ars Technica tests and recaps major desktop search tools in Windows desktop search tools. From the conclusion, MSN…
Google Images Wins Cherry Tomato Challenge For Attribute Indexing
Tim Bray tests whether Google, Yahoo and MSN image search services can find images that make use of keywords only within the…
Better Search Privacy Needs Addressing Overall
What Search Sites Know About You from Wired looks at the issue of search privacy. As usual, Google gets to be the…
MSN Search Champs: The Sequel
Last year, MSN Search generated some initial good buzz for itself — plus gained some product feedback — by inviting a number…
Winners Of 5th Annual Search Engine Watch Awards Announced
The votes have been counted, the editors have deliberated, and Yahoo has won the Outstanding Search Service category in the 5th Annual…
Refining Searches with Contextual Analysis
Most search engines offer refinement tools, suggesting different or additional search terms to try if your current query isn’t doing the job.…
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