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A Look at Last Week’s iMedia Agency Summit
In his new “Search This” column, Kevin Ryan provides an excellent in-depth review of what was discussed at the iMedia Agency Summit…
Yahoo Mindset Demo Allows “Intent Driven” Search Refinement
Michel points out that the Yahoo Research Lab has quietly released a new demo called Mindset. The Mindset Search Demo applies a…
SafeSearch Doesn’t Work On Google Print & Can Full Book Preview Prevention Be Hacked?
I was running a few searches this morning with the new Google Print interface and noticed that Google’s SafeSearch (in strict mode)…
Schmidt to Speak in Seattle
Thanks to Greg for pointing out that Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, will be speaking at the University of Washington on Thursday. His…
Introducing a New Web Search Contender
These days, web search is dominated by giants, and it's rare to see the emergence of a new potentially world-class search engine.…
Ask Buys Excite Europe; To Share Excite.com With Infospace
A Reuters article about 10 days ago mentioned that Ask Jeeves was planning on offering new services throughout Western Europe. These plans…
Yahoo Surveying Web Searchers
Michel from El Telendro dropped me a note about a survey that Yahoo is asking random web search users to complete about…
Google Launches “My Google” Style Feature
Note: A more complete story from Search Engine Watch about the new service is now here: Google Launches Personalized Home Page Google…
Clusty, Snap, and Answers.com Profiled in Fortune
It’s always good to see some of the newer names in web search getting the mainstream notice that they deserve. This is…
A Few More Web-Based Recommendation Tools
Last week Chris wrote a SearchDay article: Searching for a Mother’s Day Gift, about Yahoo’s new Shopping Gift Finder service that uses…