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Yahoo oneSearch Launches to Redefine Mobile Web Search
Yahoo has launched a new mobile search service dubbed Yahoo oneSearch which Yahoo says takes a different tack towards the displaying of search results on...
Yahoo China Evolving into Business Search Engine?
Interesting article from the International Herald Tribune (a fine paper to read while living overseas) about how Jack MA, the CEO of Alibaba; which runs...
WordPress Blog Hosting : Recommendations?
I’m currently looking into a new hosting package for Search Engine Journal and reviewing the recommended WordPress hosting companies as provided by WordPress. Their top...
Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Interviewed on BBC Radio
For those of you who are looking to keep up on the excited world of user generated content, social news, search and Wikipedia; Jimmy Wales,...
ChaCha Search Secures $6 Million in Funding
ChaCha, the real time human-powered search engine which is rapidly growing in popularity, announced today it received $6 million in private funding in 2006.
Yahoo! Local Cranks Up Community
This happened late this past week and it’s already been widely reported but I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention Yahoo!’s new quicker, more open...
Last week in China – No Internet and Google Invests in P2P
Due to an earthquake in Taiwan I have experienced again what it was like before the Internet existed. It’s liberating on the one hand, as...
Digital Point Forums : Best Search Engine Marketing Forum
To round up the Search Blogs Awards of 2006, this year’s bonus award goes to the Search Engine Journal readers’ favorite Search Engine Marketing Forum,...
Yahoo Local Quick Editing for Business Listings
Yahoo Local has announced a new easy service for businesses, or customers of those businesses, which want to edit or add to their Yahoo Local...
Shoemoney : Best Affiliate Marketing Blog of 2006
Affiliate marketing is nothing new, in fact, online affiliate marketing has been around for 10 years and was a part of the online marketing mix...
Winzy : Search & Win Search Engine
Winzy.com launched in April of 2006 and has added a social networking and 2.0 search approach to the ‘search & win’ model. Before looking into...
Awesome Fun and Creative Conclusions On The Last Day Of 2006
I can only imagine the new years eve at Jim “Jester” Kukral castle in the old and infamous darklands of Ohio (or highlands? whatever, a...
NewsTrust Hopes to Digg the Best Online Journalism
Another social news sharing service is in beta testing, NewsTrust, which hopes to use a Digg style format to help users find the best journalism...
Google Pulls ‘Google Tips’
The controversial Google Tips seem to have been pulled after stirring up a bunch of bad press about Google’s use of its search result landscape....
Brazil Wants YouTube to Remove Sex Video or Shut Down
Sure Google and the Brazilian legal system have had their rifts in the past, but this one takes the cake. Daniela Cicarelli, model, opportunist and...
Best Search Engine News Blog of 2006 : Search Engine Watch
Unlike the other SEO and SEM blog categories, this one is a bit more broad, focusing on the blogs which brought us the most search...
Matt Cutts : Best Search Blogger of 2006
This year’s Best Search Blogger is now a three time recipient of a Search Engine Journal Search Blog Award as his blog won Best SEO...
AOL Search : Growth, Technology, Major Player in 2007?
I’ve been spending my mornings over the past two weeks on the local gym’s bike or cross training machines with one eye glued to the...
Yahoo Local & Dash Team for Local Search & GPS Navigation
Dash Navigation, the vehicle navigation provider, and Yahoo Local have teamed up to deliver Yahoo Local content to Dash Express users. * When a user...
Does Digg.com Belong in Google Results?
There is a little back and forth debate between CenterNetwork’s Allen Stern and Techulate’s William Burn on whether or not Digg.com listings deserve ranking in...
Rich Skrenta : Google Has Won Online Search and Advertising Markets
Rich Skrenta, the co-founder & CEO of Topix, has declared Google the winner of search and online advertising in a very provocative post. Here are...
Wall Street Journal 3.0 Redesigns : Where’s the Social Media Optimization?
The Wall Street Journal has gone and redesigned again, in what they are claiming to be WSJ 3.0, and are offering free access to their...
YouTube Anti-Piracy Software Issue Detrimental to Google Entertainment?
MSNBC / Financial Times is running a story on how YouTube’s failure to finish a “key piece of anti-piracy software as promised” may impose an...
GMail Exploit Fixed
Yesterday the New Year brought upon us many global happenings, and bugs here at Search Engine Journal, but the biggest tech problem of January 1st...
Google : Victim of Its Own Success?
One of the persistent complaints for the last year or so about Google is that it’s too powerful now — owning 45% to 60%+ of...
Saddam Hussein Execution : Internet & Wikipedia Coverage
Former Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, is expected to be executed within the day as punishment for crimes against humanity after being convicted by the Iraq...
Yahoo Answers Dominates Answers Sites Market Share
A recent study by Hitwise shows that Yahoo Answers is dominating the Answers Search Market Share by attracting 96.1% of the share of answers sites...
Apple iTunes Traffic Soars from Giftcards & New Ipod Owners
Apple iTunes giftcards and new iPod owners led to a 413% rise in visits at iTunes.com on Christmas Day. Yours truly was an accidental visitor...
How Big is Google’s Index?
Since Google has stopped exposing the size of their indexed web documents on their homepage, it seems that different web users have been performing searches...
Wikiasari : The Answer for Search?
Even as search becomes all-but-synonymous with the Internet for many users, there’s a paradoxical and growing sense that it’s failing. We have incredibly high expectations...