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ChaCha Search: Take Two

When “human-powered” search engine ChaCha launched in September it was a great idea with very flawed execution. The site offers algorithmic search, but also IM-chat based search with…

By Greg Sterling · 06 Nov 2006

Industry

Ask.com Creates Flash Demo To Explain Why Ask.com “Is Better”

Ask.com released a new flash demonstration that goes through all the features of the search engine. The purpose of the demo is…

By Barry Schwartz · 03 Nov 2006

Industry

See And Find With Quintura

Quintura is the latest in the line of visual search engines such as Kartoo, Mooter and WebBrain. Quintura basically takes your search…

By Phil Bradley · 03 Nov 2006

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Nov. 3, 2006

Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…

By rumo · 03 Nov 2006

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: November 2, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…

By Barry Schwartz · 02 Nov 2006

Industry

The Interestingness of Social Networks

Interestingness is a great name for a ranking algorithm. It’s what Yahoo’s photo-based social network Flickr uses to show which images the…

By Bill Slawski · 01 Nov 2006

Industry

Zotspot Wants To Share The Search Wealth

One could plausibly argue that it’s crazy to do anything in the general (“horizontal”) search marketplace. But new engines continue to launch.…

By Greg Sterling · 01 Nov 2006

Industry

Quick Access to Cool Yahoo Features

Today’s SearchDay article, A Closer Look at Yahoo Shortcuts, is the third in our series looking at the special features search engines…

By rumo · 01 Nov 2006

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: October 30, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…

By Barry Schwartz · 30 Oct 2006

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Oct. 27, 2006

Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…

By rumo · 27 Oct 2006

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: October 26, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…

By Barry Schwartz · 26 Oct 2006

Industry

AOL Enhances Search with FullView Results

AOL has rolled out a slick new search interface that automatically integrates Google-powered web search results with multimedia, local or other content…

By Chris Sherman · 25 Oct 2006

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Search Headlines & Links: October 25, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…

By Barry Schwartz · 25 Oct 2006

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: October 24, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…

By Barry Schwartz · 24 Oct 2006

Industry

Google Launches Custom Search Engine Service

Want your own Google-flavored specialized search engine for your web site or blog? With Google's new Custom Search Engine service, it takes…

By Chris Sherman · 23 Oct 2006

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Search Headlines & Links: October 23, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…

By Barry Schwartz · 23 Oct 2006

Industry

Renewing With Incisive On SES

I’m breaking away from my vacation briefly to pass along news that I’ve reached an agreement with Incisive to continue with Search…

By Danny Sullivan · 23 Oct 2006

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: October 20, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…

By Barry Schwartz · 20 Oct 2006

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Oct. 20, 2006

Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…

By rumo · 20 Oct 2006

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: October 19, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…

By Danny Sullivan · 19 Oct 2006

Industry

Searching Via Internet Explorer 7 & The Battle To Be The Default Search Engine

Now that Internet Explorer 7 has been released in final format, I wanted to look at how search is being handled within…

By Danny Sullivan · 19 Oct 2006

SEO

United Press International Selling PageRank

Threadwatch reports that the United Press International is selling links based on PageRank values. If you visit the advertising section, specifically for…

By Barry Schwartz · 19 Oct 2006

Industry

More On Instant Answers, from Microsoft

Part two of our four-part series on “instant answers” provided by Ask’s Smart Answers, Yahoo’s Shortcuts, Google’s OneBox results and Microsoft’s Instant…

By rumo · 19 Oct 2006

SEO

ResultR – One Search Many Useful Results

ResultR is an interesting new search engine for a number of different reasons. However, the basics first – it’s a multi/meta search…

By Phil Bradley · 18 Oct 2006

Industry

Google Testing Cost Per Action (CPA) Model Content Ads?

Threadwatch spotted a IT Pro article that claims some invites have gone out to publishers to test a new content ad system…

By Barry Schwartz · 18 Oct 2006

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