Search engines.
What’s New at Shopzilla, Froogle, and MSN Shopping
It’s been a busy year for the major shopping search services. BizRate re-engineered its search engine and changed its name to Shopzilla,…
Snap.Com Profiled
The Pasadena Star-News offers has published a profile of Idealab’s Snap.com. [Snap.com] replaces the traditional “pay-per- click’ search model, in which an…
Mamma Has Plans to Acquire Copernic
Mamma.com, the Montreal-based metasearch engine has signed a letter-of-intent to acquire Copernic. Copernic, also a Canadian company, offers several desktop and enterprise…
More on Search Engine Disclosure
In yesterday’s Search Engine Disclosure: Better, but Still Wanting, I wrote about a new report by Consumer WebWatch, which evaluated the current…
Updated Version of Creative Commons Search Engine Now Available
A news release on the Creative Commons site lets us know that an “updated version of their Nutch-based search tool is now…
Keeping Secure When Using Robots.txt
Many know that the robots.txt file is a way to prevent search engines from spidering content. However, using it may also cause…
Short Review Of Shopping Search Engines
From the San Jose Mercury News, Sites tell where to shop on the Web is a nice, short review of shopping search…
Site Building Blocks For SEO Success
Shari Thurow takes a look a key site architecture issues to consider if you’re looking for better performance with search engines. From…
Search Engine Disclosure Improving, says Consumer WebWatch
Back in 2001, consumer watchdog Commercial Alert filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against a number of prominent search…
PremierGuide Profile
The Silicon Valley Business Journal offers a profile of local search player PremierGuide in the article: Alchemy: Local ads good as gold.…