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New Yahoo Home Page Design, Again?
I reported in March on a new Yahoo design for the front page. I was just informed by Mark Angeletti of Search-This.com of a new Yahoo front page…
Your Network Added To del.icio.us – Yahoo My Web Like Features
del.icio.us announced a new feature they call “your network.” You network lets you keep track of your friends most recent bookmarks. You…
Google Second Most Desired Place For MBA Students To Work For
ZDnet reports on a 2006 Universum Survey MBA Edition, that shows Google has jumped from 129th place in 2005 to 2nd place…
AOL’s Financial Blog Network
AOL’s Weblogs Inc. has launched its first blog network, BloggingStocks.com, since it joined the company. The network consists of eight separate blogs…
Revisiting Search Engine Ad Breaks
Originally, the news of Google’s broad matching change had me thinking that Google was adding more ad positions to their search results…
Yahoo Adds Babel Fish
Yahoo has integrated the classic Alta Vista Babel Fish into Yahoo Search. The service should now be available at https://babelfish.yahoo.com/, if it…
Is Google Search More Relevant Or Is There A Brand Factor?
The battle of which search engine is the most relevant has been going on for years. Yesterday at SES Toronto’s Searcher Behavior…
Tapping the Travel Community
Internet Brands, home to Cars Direct, Autos.com and other sites in the real estate and travel space, is bringing aboard Wikitravel and…
Daily SearchCast, April 21, 2006: Google’s Making Money; Will eBayHooSoft Stop Google; Google Local Becomes Google Maps Again; Free Web Analytics; Google’s Logo Trouble & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google’s latest earnings pleasing Wall Street; eBay looking to partner with Yahoo or Microsoft to counter Google as…
eBay Wants To Team Up With Yahoo And/Or Microsoft To Compete Against Google?
A Wall Street Journal article reports that eBay is in talks with both Yahoo and Microsoft to see which one (or possibly…
Searches Per Day
Shows how many searches are performed each day at some major search engines.
Daily SearchCast, April 19, 2006: A Tricorder Patent; Googlebot Gets Indexing Help From AdSense’s Bot; New Site Measures Click Fraud Rates; Yahoo’s Earnings Please Wall Street; Google Australia Needs Women & More!
Today’s search podcast covers new search patents including a tricorder-like device; AdSense’s bot confirmed to be helping Googlebot; a new index aims…
Yahoo Pondering Free & Low-Cost WiFi
OK, Google, we’ll see your free WiFi plans and sort of match you maybe, says Yahoo. Yahoo Testing Free Wifi Product from…
New Search Patents: April 18, 2006 – Is That A Tricorder In Your Pocket?
There were 4251 patents granted on April 18, 2006. Following are five that looked like good candidates for my first post on…
Greetings From Bill Slawski, SEW’s New Patent Correspondent
Before I begin on some new patents that were granted on April 18th, I’d like to thank Danny, and the rest of…
Yahoo Buys Meedio, Gains TiVo-Like Tech
SiliconBeat reports that Yahoo has purchased Meedio, a company that creates home automation software that runs on TVs, PCs, touchscreens, and wireless…
Search Ad Providers Gaze into their Crystal Balls
Is search advertising slowing down, or just getting started? What new distribution channels are likely to open up in the coming months?…
comScore: Google Leads On March 2006 US Search Share
You may have seen some rumblings a couple of weeks ago about Google being up in search traffic compared to competitors, based…
Ask.com Remembers San Francisco’s Great Quake Of 1906
As a native Californian, plus having had my mother and sister live in San Francisco for twenty years, the Great Quake Of…
Divining the Future of Search Engine Advertising
What does the future hold for search advertising? Thousands of people attending the recent Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York packed…
Typo Domain Spotting Tool & Domain Registration Stats
I’ve got some domain name related items I’m throwing into this post: a new typo-domain spotting tool from Microsoft, new stats on…
Yahoo’s Farechase Adds Features
Yahoo has announced that its Farechase travel service is “generally available,” with a number of new features including integration with Yahoo web…
YPN Blog
Though the Yahoo! Publisher Network is still in beta, it’s now got a blog. “We wanted a new forum to interact with…
Yahoo Denies Scandinavia Testing
In a follow-up to last week’s post, Yahoo has said they aren’t testing a new system in Scandinavia. Without giving details about…
Google Hires Orion Search Engine Creator; Gets Extraction Algorithm
Back in September, SEW Forums moderator Edel “Orion” Garcia posted a thread about a new search technology under development. It was coincidentally…
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