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Washington Post Reviews Desktop Search Tools
Seeking a More Intuitive Search Tool from the Washington Post is a round-up of major desktop search apps. Google essentially comes out on top for this reviewer, followed…
NetRatings Search Popularity & Loyalty Figures For Jan. 2005
I’ve posted new, improved search-specific stats from NetRatings painting a picture of search popularity in the US for January 2005. In the…
NetRatings Search Popularity & Loyalty Figures
A look at new search popularity and loyalty figures from NetRatings for January 2005.
Search Forums Roundup: Mar. 18, 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:…
MSN Announces Paid Listings Program Is Coming
The rumors are finally given official confirmation. MSN has announced that it will launch its own self-serve paid listings program similar to…
MSN To Launch Its Own Paid Listings Program
MSN has announced it will enter the paid search arena with a full-blown self-service paid listing program similar to those run by…
Claria Debuts RelevancyRank: Search Ranking By Behavioral Activity
Claria, the company behind the Gator eWallet software, has released new search relevancy ratings today examining how the top search listings on…
Claria Unveils Behaviorial-Based Search Ranking
Claria hopes its new RelevancyRank system will let it improve the results of major search engines or perhaps offer its own improved…
Search Engine Showdown Posts New Items
Greg Notess (also a librarian) has posted a couple of new and interesting items on his Search Engine Showdown site. You’ll find…
Clusty Now Offering Government Info Search and Cluster
Word of something new from Vivisimo’s Clusty.com this afternoon. The company has just launched a new “government tab” that allows you to…
Bush “Miserable Failure” Bio Turns Link-Only On Google
File this under interesting but perhaps nothing, big on the perhaps nothing part. I was checking on the infamous miserable failure search…
Yahoo Execs Talk About the Possible End of Ad Relationship with MSN
Last week I blogged an item about Yahoo CEO Terry Semel predicting that Yahoo’s advertising deal with MSN will end when Microsoft…
Are VoIP Services on the Horizon for Search Providers?
In January, Danny blogged about speculation (at a fever pitch for a few days) about Google launching a VoIP telephone service. Today,…
Search Forums Roundup: Mar. 4, 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:…
New Services from MSN Maps
News of a few new services from MSN Maps this afternoon. + An option to paste a formatted address from a web…
MSN Search’s Viral “MSN Found” Campaign
MSN Search has a new “viral” ad campaign called MSN Found that revolves around some fictional bloggers, as MSN Search Finds Viral…
MSN Search Partners With American Mensa
MSN Search has teamed up with the American Mensa high IQ society to help promote the service. American Mensa now sports an…
Picsearch Powers MSN’s Image Search Database
“Official” word today that Picsearch is powering the image search database at MSN. Again, this is just an official announcement. Picsearch has…
Hotmail Users Defect to Gmail
I just posted about an interview with Bill Gates where he calls Google a “fantastic” competitor. According to this BetaNews article, Google…
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7.0: What About Search?
In the article: IE 7.0: Missing the Search Boat?, Susan Kuchinskas takes comments (or lack thereof) by Bill Gates about the “full”…
Just Map It!
If you’re interested in learning about the companies that provide Google, Yahoo, MSN, Mapquest and many others the data for their digital…
Paid Search Fastest Growing Media Channel in the UK
I came across an article on the Revolution web site, Online adspend increases by 53% in paid search boom, with some new…
Fresh comScore & NetRatings Stats Posted
I’ve updated the long-standing comScore Media Metrix Search Engine Ratings and Nielsen NetRatings Search Engine Ratings pages I maintain with figures that…
Google Maps Not In Google Search; Comparing Services & How Do They Do That?
Nice catch from Tara, finding in Google Maps Not Integrated into Google Search? that the new Google Maps service launched this week…
GooglePedia? Google Wants to Help the Wikipedia
A post at Dirson kicked off a Slashdot discussion about Google offering to host “some” Wikimedia content. What this precisely means is…
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