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Xerox’s FactSpotter : Mining Concepts in Text
Xerox’s FactSpotter isn’t a mainstream search tool that will debut as a challenge to present day search engines. But the features packed into it may...
Site Banned in Yahoo Search? Just Pay Yahoo Search Marketing!
Looks like Yahoo Search has an interesting loophole or lack of communication between the quality control at the Search division and the Search Submit sales...
TheFind.com Shopping Search Engine Secures $15 Million in Additional Funding
TheFind.com has secured $15 million in Series C financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. The financing is planned to build new product development, traffic and...
The Ultimate Search for Bourne with Google
That is the title of the new online game that Universal Pictures and Google are releasing to prep up the publicity blitz of the third...
Yahoo & Wayport Partner for Hotel Wi-Fi
Wayport Inc. and Yahoo! have partnered to launch a Wi-Fi portal for the hospitality industry, with localized services provided by Yahoo!. Hotel customers using Wayport’s...
Soon Patients Will Just Google their Sickness and Diagnose Themselves
U.K based analyst firm Wireless Healthcare predicts that Google and Microsoft are on the brink of making their presence felt in the healthcare sector. The...
Lack of Quality & Trust Leads to Google Deindexing
Google seems to be taking steps to assure that ‘Made for AdSense’ sites which are unfocused, decentralized and give no real value to the searcher;...
SenseBot : Summarizing Search Engine Results
Relevancy of results has been the dominant theme in my semantic search posts so far. And in this piece I will be discussing about SenseBot,...
7 Things Yahoo Does Better than Google
They’re an opinion piece from the Marc and Angel Blog which compares Yahoo & Google and appears to be making it to the Digg homepage...
Textonomy : Semantics Based ‘Sense Engine’
Semantics based search is the flavor of my articles and in this one I’ll be focusing on the Textonomy suite of products from Crystal Semantics,...
What’s Next in Social Media For Google? SocialStream.
As the social space keeps developing and growing, you really think Google will just sit in the sidelines and watch? I think not. Besides Orkut,...
Exalead : A Look Into Semantic Image Search
Exalead, the search engine founded by Francois Bourdoncle (earlier involved with AltaVista) has a number of features that makes it a bit of everything. It...
Google Acquires Security and Enterprise Solutions Company – Postini
The latest company to join Google is on-demand communications security and compliance solutions Postini. The deal was sealed today with Google purchasing Postini for a...
Yahoo! Tops Asia-Pacific Internet Usage Study
Based on the comprehensive survey conducted by comScore on the Internet behavior of Asia-Pacific countries, Yahoo emerged as the most visited site in the Asia-Pacific...
Diversify Your Search Marketing Campaign : 11 Alternatives to Google AdWords
During the Search Engine Strategies Miami conference last month, when a representative from Yahoo Search Marketing was taking questions, one attendee asked “Why should I...
MSN adCenter Defines Low Quality, Non-Billable Clicks
MSN adCenter is reporting on and defining low quality clicks and standard quality clicks within their system and taking the extra step to help fight...
Yahoo Search Marketing’s International Advertising Obstacles : Accounts & Currency
Yahoo Search Marketing Panama is currently expanding in the UK, specific EU countries, & Japan while the company plans to launch their new Panama interface...
Google Adwords’ Impression Share: Discovering Your Ad Campaigns Performance
Impression Share is a new Adwords performance metrics which shows the percentage of impressions where your ads were shown out of the total available impressions...
Local.com Stock Explodes After Awarded Text Message & Pay Per Call Advertising Patent
Local.com’s stock value has gone berzerk after the news hit over the holiday week of the local search company being granted a US Patent for...
Yahoo Using Social Media to Enhance Market Share in Phillipines & Abroad
Yahoo is taking an interesting approach to retaining its Filipino users and securing growth of Yahoo Search & other Yahoo services in the Pacific Rim...
eBay’s Kijiji Launches in the US, To Challenge Craigslist
Modeled on Craiglist, eBay has been operating classifieds marketplace Kijiji for some time outside the US. Now the company has entered the competitive and somewhat...
eBay & Firefox Launch eBay Browser
eBay is getting busier and busier partnering with web applications and now has worked together with Firefox to produce an eBay Firefox browser. Yesterday, Search...
Google Makes FeedBurner TotalStats & MyBrand Services Free
Wrapping up some of the news that went on over the Independence Day holidays, Google’s Feedburner announced on the 3rd that its two previously paid...
Google Image Search Spamming in Action : Hawaii Pictures
Received an email today via a private discussion group about some hotlinking and Google Image spamming for the term “hawaii pictures.” If you search for...
Google Targeted with Libel Claim in UK
One English company is trying to take Google to court over its inclusion of sites in the Google database which libel the company dotWORLDS. dotWORLDS...
Defining Google Search URL Parameters
Joost de Valk has been working on defining the URL parameters in Google Search result strings which have been increasing since Google began its personalized...
Hakia’s Semantic Search : The Answer to Poor Keyword Based Relevancy
Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia once said, “Search is part of the fundamental infrastructure of the Internet. And, it is currently broken.” And while...
Yahoo! Steps Up Online Advertising with SmartAds
Yahoo is stepping up its online advertising program with the launch of SmartAds, a behavioral targeting ad campaign which display ads that are tailored for...
Sharing the Sights and Sounds of Europe through YouTube
The European Commission in cooperation with YouTube has launched EUTube, a video portal showcasting the works of the European Union. The EC hopes to disseminate...
SEO & Blogging Success Story : Diabetes Blog Earns $40K per Year
There’s an old golden rule in terms of choosing a career or venture which still applies today, even to blogging; love your work. Being passionate...