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Should Google Sitemaps Take Pings? How About More General Compatibility Generally?
Jeremy Zawodny says he’s scratching his head over the new Google Sitemaps system and wondering why Google doesn’t adopt a ping-based page updating system instead. And why didn’t…
The Other Local Search: Craigslist
You’ve heard plenty about how general purpose search engines like Google and Yahoo are developing local search. They want good local listings…
Spam Spotted on Yahoo Developer Network Wiki
One of the great things about wikis is that anyone can easily contribute. At the same time, the ability for anyone to…
Defining Google
From my “not major” but worth mentioning file. I was doing some searching the other day at Google and happened to use…
Yahoo and Google Rewrite the Information Industry Playbook, Divert Ad Revenues from Newspapers
Information industry consulting firm Outsell has published a new study about how Google and Yahoo have “rewritten the information industry playbook.” Outsell…
Corrupt Editors? PageRank-less Categories? And Other ODP Problems
Last week, I talked about it perhaps being time for the Open Directory project to close or at least radically change. Some…
Google Press Releases Now Available Via Feed
Spotted via Steve Rubel, Google is now issuing press release notifications via a feed. Non-feed releases are here; feed is here. Steve…
Yahoo Launches Personalized Movie Recommendations
Looking for a film recommendation based on your own personal tastes and interests? Check out Yahoo's new personalized movie recommendations, launched today.
Yahoo Announces a Challenge for Webmasters, Bloggers, and Web Developers
This morning Yahoo launched the YQ Challenge to find the “most innovative” implementations of their YQ contextual search platform. Yahoo launched YQ…
Personalization for the Mobile Web Searcher
TheFeature’s Peggy Ann Salz conducts an interview with search engine personalization expert Barry Smyth about using personalization to improve the online experience…
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…
Google News Study Finds Bias But Not Favoritism — But Study Also Has Flaws
A study has found that Google News results are significantly more likely to have an ideological bias than Yahoo News, though the…
Reactions To My Google Personalized Home Page
So the My Google service — ahem, Google Personalized Home Page — is now out. What’s being said? Here’s a round-up of…
SMS Search Provider Licenses Technology for Use in China
Last October I blogged about a new info service available from a Bay Area company named Synfonic that provides stock quotes, local…
Yahoo Surveying Web Searchers
Michel from El Telendro dropped me a note about a survey that Yahoo is asking random web search users to complete about…
Accoona Now Offering Some D&B Data
The China Daily reports that web engine Accoona is now offering a small amount of company info from the Dun & Bradstreet…
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Google “One-Hit Wonder”
Spotted via John Battelle, The World According to Ballmer at BusinessWeek has Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggesting that Google "may just be…
Yahoo Declares Media RSS 1.0 Official
Yahoo says that the Media RSS 1.0 specification that it launched in December is now officially released. The spec is here.
Allcheckin Travel Search Engine Launched
A new travel search engine especially aimed at the UK market has been launched. Allcheckin is backed by former executives from BT…
New FyberSearch Tool Helps Find Tutorials on the Web
Nathan Enns, the developer and proprietor of FyberSearch has released a new interface that allows the searcher to quickly find tutorials on…
Discussions On Travel Search
Have Search, Will Travel from MediaPost has David Berkowitz looking at travel search, the topic of three separate panels at the recent…
RustySearch Search Relevancy Challenge: Everyone’s Pretty Average, So Far
Barry Schwartz’s Search Engine Relevancy Challenge is still going strong at RustySearch. How’s it going so far? He’s had 5,000 rated search…
Search Marketing Firms On Parade In London
NetImperative is sponsoring a search marketing firm beauty parade in London on May 26. Ten firms each have 25 minutes to pitch…
Issues Facing Search & Search Marketing
Where Do We Go from Here? from Kevin Ryan at iMediaConnection has him surveying members of a panel he’s assembled on the…
Questions Raised On ClickTracks Use Of Alt Text
Over on Threadwatch, Clicktracks Inserting Hidden Links in Customers Pages? has discussion of how ClickTracks tracking code made use of an ALT…
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