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Yahoo Opens Customer Calling Facility in Oregon
About 3 months ago I blogged that Yahoo would be opening a customer service office in suburban Portland, OR. Oregon Public Radio reportsthat the office new facility opened…
Stats: Time Spent With Various Yahoo and Google Services
Bambi Francisco’s article: Why Google may need instant messaging offers a bunch of new and interesting stats from Majestic Research about Yahoo…
Yahoo Shopping API Now Available
News from the Yahoo Developer Network today that they’ve just released an API for Yahoo Shopping. Details and documentation are posted here.…
Search Engines Differ More than You Think
It’s easy to think of search engines as black boxes that are essentially all alike, with Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves and MSN…
Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge
A new study suggests that the overlap between search engine results is less than it was even a few months ago, and…
Yahoo Files For Several Patents
SEW will regularly feature newly awarded search-related patents and just published patent apps, beginning with a look at Yahoo.
Shari Thurow Chats Shopping Search with Become.com’s Jon Glick
In the first part of a two part interview, Shari Thurow chats with search industry veteran (Yahoo, AltaVista) Jon Glick, presently the…
Baidu.com Gets Ready For IPO
Although a specific date hasn’t been set yet, stories about Chinese web search engine Baidu.com, and its upcoming IPO continue to appear.…
Local Paper Profiles InsiderPages.com
The Whittier (CA) Daily News article: Web search engine finds niche in local advertising, provides a profile of local search/social networking tool,…
Revisiting Hijacking & Redirects: Moving To A Solution
Cast your mind back to May, when I wrote about the Google AdSense page getting “hijacked” by another site for searches on…
New Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings Program Launched
The rumors are over. Ask Jeeves has officially announced a new automated paid listings service today, Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings. It will…
New Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings Program Lets More Advertisers Buy Direct
After weeks of rumors, Ask Jeeves unveiled a new automated paid listings service today -- Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings -- that will…
Daily SearchCast, July 29, 2005: Microsoft Wins Restraining Order Over Google Hire, Danish-Canadian Island Dispute Spills Into Google, Google Maps & MSN Virtual Earth Side-By-Side And More
Today’s Daily SearchCast covers the restraining order Microsoft won against an exec who went over to Google, the Danish-Canadian dispute over an…
Goin’ Mobile With Technorati
I’ve been wondering when one of the well-known RSS/XML engines (Feedster, Technorati, Daypop, Bloglines*) was going to be the first to offer…
And More On Search Hiring!
At the end of my post about Yahoo raiding IBM for employees, I originally concluded, "Where have all the engineers gone? Off…
Yahoo Hiring From IBM
We don’t need no stinkin’ Microsoft execs like Google, says Yahoo. We’ll rob IBM! Yahoo Is Wooing I.B.M. Technical Talent from the…
Ruling Soon In Dispute Over Microsoft Exec With “Playbook” At Google
Google: Microsoft Suit Is ‘Charade’ Aimed At Scaring People from Dow Jones covers court arguments in the fast moving tussle between Google…
Technorati Founder and CEO Chats with BusinessWeek
Technorati’s Founder and CEO, David Sifry, chats with BusinessWeek about competition from the “big guys”, system architecture, growing pains, advertising, and a…
AOL Unveils New Mobile Search Services
This morning AOL is online with a mobile web search beta. AOL has offered some mobile services (for example, AOL Instant Messenger,…
Yahoo Acquired VerdiSoft Mobile Sync Company
VerdiSoft acquisition could help Yahoo users stay synched from SiliconBeat notes that Yahoo acquired start-up VerdiSoft in February but news has apparently…
New MSN Screen Saver With Search & RSS Integration
Need a screensaver? The new MSN Screen Saver puts a search box on display, plus shows you RSS feeds, photos from your…
Yahoo and Motorola Announce Partnership
Yahoo and Motorola announced a partnership today that will provide optimized versions of various Yahoo services on Motorola Linux-based mobile devices, broadband-enabled…
SuperPages To Buy Ads For Advertisers On Google & Yahoo
Superpages.com Tries on Agency Hat covers how Verizon SuperPages has advertisers who can’t buy enough inventory on SuperPages itself, so SuperPages plans…
Hispanics Loving Search Sites
In a post titled: Search is HOT for U.S. Hispanics, Nacho Hernandez posts a chart (via Ad Age) that he’s been “waiting…
Yahoo Acquires Konfabulator
Both the AP and News.com report that Yahoo is acquiring Konfabulator, a developer of small javascript tools (aka widgets) that run on…
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