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Is Duplicate Content Killing Your Rankings?
A paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology conference in Munich near the end of March, Indexing Shared…
Trovetopia – Yahoo Shopping Test Bed Site
Gary Price at ResourceShelf noticed that Yahoo registered two trademarks: “Trovetopia” and “THE N9NE,” with Trovetopia also being the name of an…
How Google Is Killing The Internet
Seth Jayson has written an interesting piece “How Google is killing the internet” over at The Motley Fool. It’s a lengthy analysis…
MSN Windows Live Launches News & Local Live Answers
The MSN Search blog announced that MSN Search now supports news specific and local specific “live answers.” What that means is if…
Hitwise: Google Nearing 60% Of Queries In US
Just over a week ago, NetRatings said Google went over the 50 percent mark in powering web searches in the US. New…
New Search Patents: June 8, 2006 – Stanford updates Pagerank Patent
The patent for pagerank has been updated, Hewlett-Packard introduces advanced searching options for searchers, IBM patents a query translation server to help…
Yahoo MyWeb Gets New Look, Easier Browsing & Viewing Features
Yahoo's given its MyWeb bookmarking service a new look and new features, making it easier than before for people to find what…
New Search Patent Applications: June 5, 2006 – Taking Care of Web Decay, Dead Links, and Parked Domains
Yahoo provides an XML based bid management tool, and a way to maintain a persistent link to dynamic information between a browser…
Yahoo’s CEO Terry Semel’s Salary Adjusted To One Dollar
Bloomberg reports that Yahoo CEO Terry Semel will soon be earning a base salary of $1 per year. The rest of his…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: June 5, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.