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Microsoft Acquires Medical Search Provider
The New York Times reports that Microsoft has agreed to acquire MedStory, Inc., a Foster City based start-up. MedStory has built it’s own search engine focused on the…
Yahoo! Sings The News – Will Investors Sing the Blues
Singing newscasters? Why not just buy the Naked News – or is that next? Is something wrong at Yahoo! ? Have the…
Stats Show Google Dominates the International Search Landscape
What is the most popular search engine in the UK? In Europe? In the world?
Sproose to show ‘subject expert’ information in search results
Bob Pack, CEO for Sproose, a personalized social networking search engine with user-ranked results, spent some time with me in an interview,…
2007: A Search Odyssey? Keynote Conversation with Matt Cutts
At SES London, Google's most famous engineer shared his thoughts on search spam, personalization, and the future of Google.
The Search Engine Report – Number 122
A recap of all the hottest news in the search industry since our last newsletter.
Google’s Ajax Search API
On January 4, 2007, I spoke with Mark Lucovsky, Technical Director of Engineering at Google, about the Google’s Ajax Search API. The…
Loren Baker on the Warpath Against NoFollow
Loren Baker gets on the warpath today with this rant against the NoFollow tag. Loren lists 13 reasons why he is against…
Data Mining: The Heart of Analysis
What do you do when the needle won't move anymore -- when you can't invest another dollar in your paid search program…
New Social Search Features from Eurekster
Eurekster has announced a whole new set of social features in their Swicki search platform. These new features, discussed here last week,…
The Tail that Wags the News Search Dog
Why does Google News get more press and blog mentions than other news search engines, when Yahoo News and AOL News have…
SES New York 2007 Speaking Update
I’ve now posted what speaking openings I have for SES New York 2007 over here. I’ve now also contacted everyone who spoke…
Search Marketing Shows Strength in 2006
SEMPO's annual look at the State of Search Engine Marketing finds that search continues to grow, reaching $9.4 billion in North America…
Think Like a Search Engineer
Understanding the way search engineers think can help you decide whether or not a new idea is worth trying. Knowing when you…
Yahoo Adds Narrow Search Builder Template
Yahoo today made some design enhancements to its Search Builder custom search engine. In response to criticism from bloggers about the options…
Google Enhances Its “Link:” Command at Webmaster Central
As Kevin Newcomb mentioned yesterday, Danny Sullivan had an outstanding write-up yesterday about Google’s enhancement of its “Link:” operator which allows researchers…
Eurekster Adds Community Features
Personalized/social search provider Eurekster has launched several new community-based features to its swicki platform. The new tools enable users to ask and…
KeywordDiscovery offers free search term suggestion tool
Trellian’s KeywordDiscovery.com is offering a free search term suggestion tool. Type in a seed keyword and the free tool generates the top…
Search Headlines & Links: Jan. 31, 2007
A selection of stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW…
Retailers Should Focus on SEO, Shopping Search
Retailers should move beyond their traditional paid search campaigns and pay attention to SEO and shopping search engines, according to a new…
Search Headlines & Links: Jan. 30, 2007
A selection of stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW…
Click Fraud Numbers Up, Content Networks Near 20%
A Click Forensics report found 2006 click fraud numbers reached 14.2% overall and 19.2 for clicks from search engine content networks. While…
Search Headlines & Links: Jan. 29, 2007
A selection of stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW…
Tribune taps news search engine Topix for classified ads
Mark Walsh of MediaPost Publications reports that news search engine “Topix.net has forged a deal to power general merchandise classifieds on Tribune…
Midomi a New Entrant in the Growing Voice Search Market
The just launched Midomi search engine combines voice search with a social network. Anyone with a microphone hooked to their computer can…
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