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Who’s Who in Social Search
Many players, big and small, are working in the social search space. Here's a look at who's doing what to harness the…
Microsoft Attacks Click Spam by Looking at Noisy Behavior
Sites in search results that rank highly while serving visitors only ads are the target of a number of papers by Microsoft,…
More On AOL’s Search Release & Ways To Search The Records
I’ve got some follow-up items about yesterday’s story where AOL released user query records, including how anyone can now easily look at…
MSN Assigns Names To Vertical Search Crawlers
I covered news at my blog this morning that MSN has assigned names to all their robots or crawlers. When MSN Search…
Google Trends Launched In China
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google Labs just posted a link to Google Trends China. Google Trends was launched on May 10th and…
Search Headlines & Links: July 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…
Daily SearchCast, July 25, 2006: Report Says Google’s Click Fraud Practices “Reasonable;” Few Opposed Proposed Google Click Fraud Settlement; Tracking Packages Via Search; Getting Real-Time Traffic Info & More!
Today’s search podcast covers an independent report finding Google’s click fraud practices to be “reasonable,” few object to Google’s proposed click fraud…
Yahoo Invests In Social Search Research
Reuters reports Yahoo hired Dr. Raghu Ramakrishnan as vice president and Yahoo research fellow. Dr. Ramakrishnan is a well-respected database expert who…
Yahoo Reaches Out To U.S. Hispanics Via Deal With Hispanic Digital Network
ClickZ reports that Yahoo has reached a deal with Hispanic Digital Network (HDN) to supply web search and sponsored search listings for…
Weird Results Counts On Google
I’ve written before about Google giving strange results counts and why maybe it’s time for them to go. Yesterday, I came across…