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Google Jet Hosts NASA Quadrantid Meteor Shower Research Over Arctic
Google’s relationship with NASA got even more intimate as the search & technology company hosted NASA scientists yesterday on the Google Jet to witness and...
China To Implement (New) Online Video Regulations
According to AP China has decided to restrict the broadcasting of Internet videos — including those posted on video-sharing Web sites — to sites run...
ChaCha’s Human Powered Search Goes Mobile with TextChaCha
You got to give credit to ChaCha search for trying to compete with the major search engines through its own little ways. Although its human-powered...
Google Tells Us How They Can be Gamed: They Artificially Inflate Recent Web Pages
To kick off the new year, the Google Operating System blog spoke about the downside of their ability to index pages faster: artifically boosting the...
Yahoo Says Goodbye to “Yahoo Picks”
After twelve years of existence, Yahoo finally shut down Yahoo Picks, a service which highlighted new and interesting sites on the web. Yahoo bid the...
Ask.com Offers Voice Activated Mobile Directions
Ask.com today introduced new voice-activated capabilities to its Ask.com Mobile Directions service, dubbed “Click to Speak.” Click to Speak lets Ask.com Mobile users speak their...
Netscape : Strong Brand with No Identity
AOL has done everything it can to mangle the Netscape brand, which it purchased 10 years ago for $4.2 billion, into a disoriented web zombie,...
Paid Link Spending Per Industry by Nielsen
Yesterday Search Engine Watch covered the Nielsen break down of the amount of spending by industry for ‘sponsored links’ and ‘text links’ in online advertising....
The Importance of Research: A 2008 Resolution
Research, Research, Research! Personally, 2007 was the year I spent a few hours a day doing research on branding strategies, traffic strategies, news, etc. A...
EarthFrisk: Another Meta-HyBrid Search Engine Rises
While we all await the opening of Wikia, join me in taking a closer look at another one of ’em “meta-hybrid-social search engine” which just...
New Year’s Resolutions from Search Engine Journal
As I woke up this morning to greet the last day of 2007, I started thinking to myself the things I want to change for...
Google Knol – Looking at Wikipedia’s Rival
There’s a new kid on the online block named Knol and even this early in the development stage, some people are already predicting that it...
Google Services Bugs and Usability Issues That Spoil My Holiday Spirit – Part II
This is the second part of my series about bugs and usability issues with various Google services. My previous post was about Google Picasa and...
Google Services Bugs and Usability Issues That Spoil My Holiday Spirit – Part I
It’s the end of the year and I have a little gift for Google for the year 2008. It’s a summary of issues and bugs...
Introducing SearchSalad: A Healthy Way to Search
Every once in awhile its good to see other metasearch engine come out of the web. While the top five major search engines battle it...
Vote for the Search Blogs Awards of 2007
The nominations for the Search Blogs Awards of 2007 have been compiled and we’re ready to have you vote for your favorite Search Blogs, Communities...
Otavo : The Intention Search Engine
Launched about a year and a half ago, Otavo is famous as the intention engine. Headquartered at Canada, the engine is loosely coupled around search...
Google Adds U.S. Elections Coverage on News Portal
Doug Caverly of WebProNews is reporting that Google News has added coverage of the U.S. 2008 elections. The Official Google News Blog has announcement about...
Google Reader Sharing Feature Raises Privacy Concerns
Google announced a small change to Google Reader back on December 14 which seemed innocent enough, and in line with their goals of making all...
Google Partners with DoCoMo : Japanese Search Market Prepares for iPhone
Google is making a push to expand its reach in the Yahoo owned Japanese market via targeting where the majority of Japanese users spend their...
Sam’s Club Search Marketing : Good or Bad for the Industry?
Sam’s Club, the Wal-Mart owned mega store which is a godsend to small businesses looking to stock locally breaking dependency on wholesale distributors, is now...
Google’s AutoLink Browser Tool in Court on Patent Infringement Charges
The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday that Google’s AdSense program did not infringe on any patents as alleged by Hyperphrase Technologies. However the...
Google Bans AdWords Ads for Being Too Sexy
Google has blocked the serving of AdWords contextual (or AdSense) display ads in the European market of US lingerie company Pampered Passions because the company...
Like.com : Revisiting Visual Search as It Should Be
Riya launched Like.com, a visual search engine in the year 2006. Image search in its true spirit should be about the image only. Most image...
Empire Today : How to Optimize a Badly Branded Google Results Page
Last week was a trying week for me as on top of the normal day to day responsibilities of managing a search blog and a...
Meta Search Engines : Why Use Them? Still Important?
Engines which work on top of search engines has been a growing area ever since Web Search went mainstream. Most meta-search engines use content from...
Google Won’t Just Step Down the Search Rankings, Tops comScore’s November Report
Looks like Google is out to dominate the search engine battle this year. It has consistently topped search engine rankings from various web analytics reports...
WikiaSearch Launches in Private Beta
Michael Arrington is reporting that WikiaSearch, Jimmy Wales’ much anticipated open-source search engine has actually launched, today. The closed announcement (mailed through the WikiaSearch mailing...
Kayak.com Travel Search Engine Merges With SideStep Inc.
Kayak.com announced today the completion of a $196 financing round, which they will use to complete a merger with SideStep Inc. and to pursue a...
Google Granted DoubleClick Acquisition, Big Week for Big Media
In a pro-Big Media trend by government regulatory agencies, Google was just handed a huge Christmas present by the FTC, which voted 4 to 1...