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Search Execs Talk at MIT Forum

Via Searchblog, word of this just released podcast of a forum that took place at MIT about a week ago and featured an all-star lineup of search execs…

By Gary Price · 15 Dec 2005

Industry

Vote For Your Favorite Search Blog

Loren Baker over at Search Engine Journal is asking people to vote for their favorite search blogs. Hey, if you like us,…

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Dec 2005

SEO News

Alexa Offers Fee-Based Vertical Search Services

I guess I get to be the underwhelmed one about Alexa announcing a new Alexa Web Search Platform that’s available to anyone…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Dec 2005

SEO

Burn the Spam!

I love how Yahoo!’s beta e-mail interface denotes spam. The icon shows a mail message aflame. Meanwhile “delete” is symbolized by a…

By rumo · 12 Dec 2005

Industry

ZoomInfo Enhances People Search

ZoomInfo, the Boston-based 'people search' company has added several new features that help you search more than 27 million personal profiles.

By Gary Price · 12 Dec 2005

Local

UK: Thomson Directories and Skype Announce Partnership

How about a large local directory provider and a large VoIP service partnering and tossing in a bit of the click to…

By Gary Price · 11 Dec 2005

Social

Create Your Own Collection Of Searchable RSS Feeds With ScoopGo & Blogdigger Groups

A quick post to point out Tara’s recent item (when Tara writes, we read) about ScoopGo, a new tool that allows the…

By Gary Price · 11 Dec 2005

SEO

Web Search History: Before Google Answers and Yahoo Answers There Was “Answer Point” From Ask Jeeves

How about some web search industry history? Long before two major search engines, Google and Yahoo offered Google Answers and Yahoo Answers,…

By Gary Price · 10 Dec 2005

SEO

Jux2 Returns!

Jux2 the metasearch/comparative search engine that won our Best Meta Search Engine site in the 5th Annual Search Engine Awards, is back…

By Gary Price · 09 Dec 2005

Industry

Tag It: Acquisition, Yahoo Acquires del.icio.us

Even developing their own MyWeb 2.0 (tag, save, share service) and the Yahoo 360 set of services, Yahoo still wants more assets…

By Gary Price · 09 Dec 2005

Video

Redesigned Yahoo Video Home Page Now Online

Today, you’ll notice a redesigned Yahoo Video home page that is much more aesthetically pleasing. You’ll see a lot more color and…

By Gary Price · 09 Dec 2005

Industry

New Patent Apps from Yahoo (Data Extraction) and Microsoft (Electronic Yellow Pages) Published

The USPTO published two patent applications yesterday. One from Yahoo and and the other from Microsoft that I think are worthy of…

By Gary Price · 09 Dec 2005

Industry

Tweaks to Gmail Reported

Google Blogscoped with a nice chunk of info about changes and additions to Gmail. You’ll learn that mail attachments from Word, Acrobat…

By Gary Price · 07 Dec 2005

Industry

How Does Ask Jeeves Get Its Advertising Point Across?

Along with the awesome coverage by Barry and Phoenix of SES Chicago, here’s another story from the SES Cconference via DMNews.com. This…

By Gary Price · 07 Dec 2005

Industry

Google Once Again Looking for Ad Quality Raters

We’ve blogged numerous times about Google and their quality rater program. A quick note to let you know that once again Google…

By Gary Price · 07 Dec 2005

Local

Local Search from Promising Upstarts

Local search is emerging as an important vertical service for Google, Yahoo and the other major players. But local search is still…

By rumo · 06 Dec 2005

Social

People Search Engine, Zoom Info, Adds New Services and Features

ZoomInfo, the Boston-based, privately-held “people search” company that we’ve blogged about several times and Chris wrote a SearchDay overview about, is adding…

By Gary Price · 05 Dec 2005

Industry

MSN Using Human Quality Raters to Review Results

Via Threadwatch (and its new man in charge, Aaron Wall), word that MSN Search is also using quality raters to revew and…

By Gary Price · 02 Dec 2005

Industry

Yahoo Adds RSS Alerts Delivered via E-Mail, IM, or SMS

The other day Danny blogged about Yahoo adding an RSS viewing option to the beta version (that I like a lot) of…

By Gary Price · 02 Dec 2005

Industry

A Look at Working at Ask Jeeves

I’m regularly posting about job openings and working life at Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, I don’t think I’ve ever included any…

By Gary Price · 02 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

Industry

Google Builds Anti-Microsoft War Chest, Expect Ads To Keep Booming & Yahoo The Stealth Search Warrior

Three business items I’m throwing into one post, Google explaining it has built up cash to fend of an unnamed big competitor,…

By Danny Sullivan · 01 Dec 2005

Industry

Advertisers Offer Google Kudos for Allowing Separate Bidding

Christine Blank’s article: Agencies Like Bidding Separately for Google Content, offers kudos from advertisers to Google for giving them more flexibility and…

By Gary Price · 30 Nov 2005

Industry

Google Looking For Interactive TV Engineers; Yahoo Needs Search Relevance and Monetization Researcher

Yes, it’s time for another Google TV job posting! This time for engineers. The title of the job is: Software Engineer, Television…

By Gary Price · 30 Nov 2005

Industry

Yahoo Now Default Search Engine on Asian Versions of Firefox 1.5

Yesterday, Firefox launched version 1.5 of its browser and at the same time announced a “stratgic partnership” with Yahoo in China, Japan,…

By Gary Price · 30 Nov 2005

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