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Yotophoto For Finding Free Photos Fast

Yotophoto is a fast and easy to use image search engine. There are plenty of image search engines available of course, but that’s no reason why there shouldn’t…

By Phil Bradley · 29 Sep 2006

SEO

Big Brands: Do You Know What Wikipedia Saying About You Via Google?

Steve Rubel produced a small study on the top 100 advertisers, according to AdAge, to see where in the Google rankings does…

By Barry Schwartz · 12 Sep 2006

Industry

Social News Site Digg Adds New Categories, Features

Sites that rely on user generated content are all the rage these days, from online encyclopedia Wikipedia to social bookmark sites like…

By rumo · 28 Jun 2006

Industry

Ballmer On Google And Don’t Be Evil: Laugh & No Comment

When I asked Barry Diller earlier this year if Ask needed some type of "Don’t Be Evil" like Google, his answer got…

By Danny Sullivan · 26 May 2006

Local

Getting More from Google Maps

Google Maps is fundamentally easy to use, but with a bit of extra effort you can create some really interesting, useful “mashups”…

By rumo · 05 Apr 2006

Industry

Google to Partner with Wikipedia?

Garett Rogers reports that Google and the Wikipedia may be in some sort of partnership. March 6th, Google registered “googlereference.net/org/info and googlereferencepages.com/net/org/info“,…

By Barry Schwartz · 09 Mar 2006

Industry

Ask Loses Jeeves, Gains New Features

The butler has gone into retirement, and Ask.com now sports a crisp new look with a number of impressive new features.

By Chris Sherman · 27 Feb 2006

Industry

Yahoo Adds Quick Links to Wikipedia Search Results

Yahoo announced that they now include Yahoo Quick Links for Wikipedia results. What that means is that when you do a search…

By Barry Schwartz · 24 Feb 2006

SEO

Google Sitemaps Stats On Most Common Words In Your Anchor Text & Site Content

Along with the cool new robots.txt checker, Google Sitemaps has also released stats showing the most common words used on pages within…

By Danny Sullivan · 06 Feb 2006

Industry

Searching for a Sense of Place

Whether you're looking for the London in England, Texas or on the atoll of Kiritimati, an online gazetteer can help you locate…

By Chris Sherman · 01 Feb 2006

SEO

The New York Public Library and Answers.com Announce New Homework Service

Lots of news coming from Answers.com in the past 24 hrs. First, the acquisition of Brainboost and this morning, word that Answers.com…

By Gary Price · 07 Dec 2005

Industry

Daily SearchCast, Dec. 1, 2005: Microsoft’s Classifieds Service Shapes Up, Google’s War Chest To Fight Redmond, Yahoo Gets Firefox Win, Upset Over Bios At Wikipedia & More!

Today’s search podcast covers how Microsoft’s classified ads service is shaping up, Google building a war chest to fight Microsoft, Yahoo ousting…

By Danny Sullivan · 01 Dec 2005

SEO

Gollum and Other Wikipedia Search Tools

News.com reports about a new “Wikipedia Browser” named Gollum that comes from German web developer, Harald Hanek. In my opinion the interface…

By Gary Price · 29 Nov 2005

Industry

Google Adds Option to Limit to Creative Commons Licensed Material

Many sources including Philipp, Nathan, and Tara, have reported that Google has made an addition to their advanced search interface and now…

By Gary Price · 09 Nov 2005

Local

China Says No To Wikipedia, Dislikes Taiwan Change On Google Maps & Chinese Activist Takes Yahoo’s Yang To Task For Helping Maintain “Evil System”

Wikipedia is apparently no longer accessible to those in Shanghai and other parts of China, reports say, while Boing Boing reports a…

By Danny Sullivan · 21 Oct 2005

Social

Tips On Tapping Into RSS For Info

Some very nice tips from Steve Rubel today about how to get more out of RSS feeds. He covers ways to make…

By Danny Sullivan · 19 Oct 2005

SEO

Orlowski Talks Quality Problems at Wikipedia

(via Threadwatch) This time Andrew Orlowski is all over Wikipedia in the article: Wikipedia founder admits to serious quality problems. It’s strong…

By Gary Price · 18 Oct 2005

Industry

Daily SearchCast, Oct. 13, 2005: Google Buying Part Of AOL?, Spellchecking With The Google Toolbar, The Google Dentist Hoax, Mixing Google Maps And Wikipedia, Pimping Your Mobile Bookmarks & More!

Today’s search podcast covers Google considering buying a piece of AOL, spellchecking with the Google Toolbar, Google’s onsite dentist being a hoax,…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Oct 2005

Local

Mashing Up Google Maps with Wikipedia Articles

Google Maps, now integrated with Google Local, offers a lot of information about local merchants, but these detailed results typically don’t include…

By rumo · 13 Oct 2005

Industry

Sergey Brin: The Video Lecture

Several weeks ago Danny blogged about Professor Marti Hearst’s “awesome” UC Berkeley class featuring many presentations by some of the biggest names…

By Gary Price · 08 Oct 2005

Industry

Google’s Defintions Operator Goes International

So far this week we’ve posted about Google offering new international versions of Google Print and the introduction of film info to…

By Gary Price · 01 Sep 2005

Industry

Defining Google

From my “not major” but worth mentioning file. I was doing some searching the other day at Google and happened to use…

By Gary Price · 04 Jun 2005

Industry

ODP Forum Closes Status Check Service; Time For The ODP To Close?

Been wondering what’s going on with your Open Directory submission? The Resource Zone site has long offered a way to ask ODP…

By Danny Sullivan · 23 May 2005

Industry

Wikipedia Gets Support from Yahoo

More Yahoo mojo? (-: We read a few weeks ago about how Google might help the Wikipedia by providing server space and…

By Gary Price · 07 Apr 2005

SEO

Wikipedia Plus Dynamic Search Term Suggestions = WikiWax

Surfwax has just launched its LookAhead search term suggestion technology combined with Wikipedia into a new site calledWikiWax. Over 600,000 Wikipedia index…

By Gary Price · 21 Mar 2005

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