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Is CNET For Sale?
The New York Post dropped a big pebble into the online rumor pond this morning as it reported that CNET was "informally shopping itself to a host of media companies," according to undisclosed sources.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-30
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My Web 2.0: Social Search
You know, life would be a bit less crazy for me if we weren't trying to launch new stuff at work when I'm supposedly out on vacation. Thankfully, the world doesn't revolve my schedule.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-29
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What Makes a Good Guest Blogger?
If ProBlogger was a real estate property, it can probably be likened to a snazzy professional suite in a condo. Top floor - latest furnishings and decor - hip, business-like, but with a comfy feel to it - and a nice view of the world around it.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-29
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What in the World of AdSense
After a couple of non-eventful AdSense weeks earlier this month, the past week or so has seen plenty of new AdSense changes, many coinciding with the WebmasterWorld of Search Conference.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-29
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My Web On Yahoo: Search Engine Socialization
Yahoo cranked out one of its best new features into the SEO struggle for supremacy. Whereas Google and MSN have their strong points, Yahoo continues to keep the same personal touch they're known for In this new My Web 2.0 (beta), Yahoo really makes their case for remaining the pioneer in search engine optimization.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-29
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Google Maps API Now Available
With popularity of Google Maps continuing to increase, due in large part to the inclusion of satellite mapping technology, many users out there have introduced a number of hacks and tricks that take advantage of the mapping technology.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-29
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Amazon Turning Ten
If Amazon.com is ten years old, that brings up a bit of search engine marketing trivia. It must meant that linking campaigns, once thought to be the quintessential form of Internet PR, are now more than ten years old! Eric Ward famously helped Amazon get linked all over the web, which was a big part of its early success.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-28
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Google’s Exciting Ride
Apparently, today is confirmation day for Google. After an impressively product week, results from two studies that were released today indicated what most people all ready know: Google is still king of the search engine heap.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-28
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Yahoo Searches Times Square
In one of the more user-friendly promotional moves, Yahoo is making use of Times Square in order to demonstrate the effectiveness of their search engine by having people from the general public take part in their Top Search Challenge, which is being displayed on the Reuters Sign, which is located in Times Square.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-28
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VCs Cashed In Big On Google Stock
Greg Linden pointed me to Bill Burnham's excellent accounting of the amount of money the two venture capital firms that funded Google in its early days, Kleiner Perkins and Sequoia, earned off the mega-billions Google IPO. Suffice to say, they made out like bandits, earning roughly $4.5 billion and $4.7 billion, respectively.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-27
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Some Folks Like Spyware... Really!
You'll have trouble winning an argument with Eric Goldman, because like any good lawyer, he seizes on logical inconsistencies and factual shortcomings in arguments, and uses them to get spurious charges thrown out of court.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-27
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Yahoo Opens Up 360 Beta
Social networks are peculiar animals. When they first launch, people can't seem to get enough of them, however, it doesn't take long for backlash to these networks as a whole to rear its head.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-27
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Google Video Viewer Goes Live
It was announced earlier today that Google would be releasing an in-browser video player plug-in, designed seemingly to make Google Video a more interactive experience, instead of one that searches video but returns only text (readable instead of watchable) results.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-27
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Google And Univision Focusing On Spanish Search Marketing
As more and more Hispanic users gravitate to the Internet and all that it offers, their exposure to search engines and the marketing associated with them increases as well. However, is there sufficient Spanish language support to provide these users with a seamless Internet shopping experience? Probably not...
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-27
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WebmasterWorld Conference Wrap-up
As a veteran of last year's San Jose SES, I certainly understand the benefit of conferences when it comes to everything related to search engines including; marketing, optimization, link strategies, and so on. The amount of insider knowledge you are privy to can be incredibly valuable.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-24
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Buckaroo Bill At the MS Ranch Lassos RSS for Longhorn
The Seattle slue up at the MS Ranch in Redmond said they were gonna lasso Really Simple Syndication (RSS) into the Longhorn corral. Those fellas on the Longhorn cattle drive say RSS is gonna be like driving cattle to the stockyards in Kansas City. This is gonna put all the news and info into cattle cars so it'll be ready to load
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-24
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Yahoo Yanks Pedophile Chat After Ads Get Yanked
SEO pioneer Yahoo pulled personal chat rooms from their instant messaging service after advertisers like Pepsi and Georgia Pacific pulled their ads from Yahoo's IM service. A TV report in Texas revealed room names with title that didn't leave much to the imagination.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-24
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Google Sightseeing UK Launches
It's becoming plain to see that one of the best "toys" to hit the Internet in sometime is satellite capability of Google Maps. Since the Keyhole technology has been integrated, a number of sites and hacks have been developed to take advantage of the satellite images.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-24
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MSN Search Introduces More Sports Answers
One of the features being added to search engines is the ability to take a query and provide more than just the standard search results as a response. A number of engines have introduced options that allow users to receive specific answers when they enter a query about a certain subject.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-23
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The Lonely Hearts Use Google As Well
Apparently, the varying methods in which people use search engines are going to continue its evolution until the Sun collapses. Since inception into the mainstream, the way people use search engines has grown from a mere information and fact-finding tool to something many couldn't imagine being without.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-22
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FreeNews is a Winner
Over the past several months I have been playing around with mobile RSS readers. These include Newsgator Mobile Edition, Bloglines Mobile and My Yahoo! Mobile.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-22
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Yahoo Uses Special Logos Too
Changing the company logo to celebrate a particular holiday or otherwise notable event is a mainstay of search engines Ask.com and Google. Every major holiday (and sometimes, events you may not have heard of), these two engines alter their logo to a design that acknowledges the special occasion.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-22
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Ad Revenues & Ulterior Motives
Contrary to what many assume, there remains a lot of useful online ad inventory out there. Those who own good chunks of that inventory are holding tight to it, consolidating it, and trying to grab more of it.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-22
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Will Google Destroy eBay and Amazon?
Battelle again points us to an ever more prescient article (looking forward, looking back) about how "Google beat Amazon and eBay to the Semantic Web" in the year 2009, so I think that automatically means that the rest of us search bloggers are obliged to pick up on it.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-21
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Google Maps Updates, Increases Satellite Coverage
Since the integration of Keyhole's satellite technology into their mapping service, Google Maps has become incredibly popular and quite useful. The use of high-resolution images puts portions of the globe in the palms of their visitors' hands; and it appears as if this ability will only increase.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-21
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All Windows Are Local: Microsoft Adds to MSN Search
MSN took a local leap in their search engine optimization (SEO) efforts yesterday with the launch of the local search. The local search focuses on just that, local businesses and websites. When you go the Local (beta) feature, you also get a map with the option of an aerial view. This is a nice feature added to MSN's optimization efforts gives them a leg up over the competition.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-21
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WordPress vs Movable Type
Its a matter of history that I was a member of the Movable Type diaspora when the house that Mena built decided for better or worse to alienate a large number of their loyal user base with MT 3.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-21
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Yahoo Social Search, Act I
At Supernova 2005, Jeff Weiner, SVP Yahoo! Search crunches the numbers on social search. When regular people can share their knowledge, on subjects like how to buy real estate, and enough of them do...
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-21
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IceRocket And Answers.com Partner Up
In one of the more unique partnerships of the search industry and blogosphere, two seperate search entities are forming a partnership which would direct the appropriate traffic (blog search or questions asked) to the correct search engine.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-21
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Google Site-Targeted Ads Leave Beta
Google has now made its site targeted ads, which appear on specific websites and are sold based on page impressions, available to all AdWords buyers. These ads are very different from the more advanced content specific ads Google usually sells, which change every time a page is reloaded, are based on the words on the page, and are sold on a cost-per-click (CPC) basis.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-20
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Advanced Google Operators
Google has a list of advanced operators popular among the SEO community. However, most web site owners are not aware of these, so I will take the time to explain what they are and how they work.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-20
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Yahoo Launching New Search Index
While the big players in the search industry continue to try and outdo each other by introducing a number of specialty search services, it's important to remember that a search engine is only as good as its search index.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-20
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R|Mail Passes 1000 Subs
Coolz0r informs me the R|Mail has exploded since he posted about it here, increasing its number of users by 113% in just 7 days. R|Mail has now gone from 503 users on June 13 to 1070 right now.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-20
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WordPress Search, Powered by Yahoo!
Last week Matt Mullenweg asked me a few questions about the Yahoo! Web Search API and Yahoo! Site Search. It turned out that he was looking for a better way to provide search for WordPress.org and thought we had just what he needed.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-20
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Google Registers A Number Of New Domains
Whenever a big-time company acquires new domains, especially when it comes to something the size of Google, many take notice. So when it was revealed that Google had purchased a number of new domain names, those who cover the search engine industry reacted.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-20
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AdWords Site Targeting Goes Live
After a beta test period proved successful, all Google AdWords advertisers can now access a "site targeting" feature for content-targeted ads, so they can control what partner sites their ads appear on. Placement will be auction-based, with CPM rates starting at $2.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-17
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Tabloid Photos Of Google Trucks?
I find this post funny, in a paparazzi/obsessive kind of way. Silicon Valley Watcher has a photo of the hangar which the Google 3D mapping truck is in. I'm going to take the blogosphere to a very evil level.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-16
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GreaseMonkey Develops Gmail Delete Button Script
The absence of a delete button from Gmail's available action buttons can be puzzling to some. However, Google does not want people to delete their emails and this is made known by the claim "Don't throw anything away. 2297.829967 megabytes (and counting) of free storage so you'll never need to delete another message."
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-15
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Yahoo: Favorite Site, Google: Favorite Search
As the Internet continues its astonishing growth (which is perhaps immeasurable now), users are curious about which site is ranked as the favorite ____. Much like the television medium, there are studies and ranking measurements that attempt to clarify this curiosity.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-15
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blinkx Partners With IFilm
Because a successful video search presence places most, if not all, of its hopes on a comprehensive search index, partnerships and agreements that can increase searchable content are vitally important.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-14
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The GPS Shopping List (seeks participants)
From the SW Minneapolis' Community Newspaper : Fulton resident Pam Ludford is developing a new technology for cell phones equipped with a GPS (global positioning system) device. It's called PlaceMail, and it's a sort of wireless, location-sensitive, to-do list.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-13
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Gmail + Aliases
Some email providers support something called "plus" addressing. Gmail is one of them. It's not a well-known feature; in fact, I don't believe it is even documented in the Gmail help pages.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-13
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A Redesigned Technorati Launches
Technorati, the comprehensive tool for all your blogger needs, has launched a redesigned version of their web site. This new beta edition comes complete with quite a few features, all designed to keep you update on topics going around the blogosphere.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-10
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Google Shuts Down “Google Wallpapers”
Google has shut down (via takedown notice) a website, Google Wallpapers, that allowed users to very easily create saveable images of Google Maps. Google's next move is to sue the makers of the "Print Screen" key, which does the same damn thing with extra steps.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-09
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Microsoft Releases Tabbed Browsing For IE 6
Late yesterday evening, Microsoft let out an updated MSN Search Toolbar for download with the added feature of tabbed browsing for Internet Explorer 6. The echoes of "why didn't we think of this earlier?" were still ripe in the Redmond campus hallways. Mozilla was reported to have snickered.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-09
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AOL Beefing Up Its SingingFish
AOL is serious about its recently acquired audio and video search engine SingingFish. Timer Warner's Internet baby has been very busy on the wheel-and-deal circuit, signing up with some big name A/V feeders.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-09
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MSN Toolbar 1.2 Releases With Tabbed Browsing
MSN released tonight version 1.2 of its search toolbar, which brings tabbed browsing to all compatible versions of IE well ahead of the release of Internet Explorer 7. While the tabbed browsing is very rudimentary, it is also very excellent. running fast and supporting most features you'd want.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-09
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Google Maps In 3-D?
Apparently, search engine mapping services have become all the rage. Since the launch of the Google Maps satellite service, real-time, image-rich maps are in demand.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-09
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Bloglines Doubles Search Index
The importance of having a complete index should never be underestimated when it comes to search. All the relevance algorithms in the world don't mean much if the indexes being searched aren't the least bit comprehensive.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-08
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gMerge Shutdown By Google
Apparently, Google does not like when others make their search features more functional than they already are... or at least ones that don't violate their TOS agreement.
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> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-08
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Google Doodle For Frank Lloyd Wright
Google today has a Doodle celebrating the birthday of celebrated architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Had Wright been immortal (or undead), he would have been 138 today, having been born on June 8, 1867. Instead, he passed on April 9, 1959.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-08
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Local.com: Addressing The Needs Of Local Search
To many who follow the search industry, local search is in a position to be one of the more requested and on demand features available. The ability to locate various points of interest tailored to a local setting (zip code, city, etc.) is quite attractive to visitors and search users.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-07
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Do You Have Your Finger On the BlogPulse?
Have you ever come around the corner to find people in a conversation that abruptly ends upon your arrival? You know they were talking about something, but you're not sure what. The blogosphere can be like that too, but a new feature may help you discover what everybody's talking about.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-07
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New George W. Bush Linkbomb Revealed
Because of the value Google, Yahoo and other search engines place on backlinks, executing a linkbomb in order to position certain websites atop of the search results is not too difficult. Provided you have enough people taking part.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-06
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Improve Your Typing Skills
Being a professional blogger means in most of the cases: publish content, targeted at your audience, structured, and well written.
But the other part is: It has to be typed. And the more you want to publish, the more you have to type, and edit, and retype …
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-06
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Sell on Search
As you can see from the screen shot at left. One of my posts is, as of this writing, #3 on Google for Kensington Locks. What's worse, it's about their recent crisis.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-06
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Google Begins Website Update Reporting Service
Google today unveiled Sitemaps, a program where you can notify Google of any updates to your website so that it crawls your site immediately. Essentially, its like RSS for entire websites, with webmasters creating an XML file that indicates recently changed or new pages that Google subscribes to.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-03
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Google And Yahoo Create Advertising Revenue Void
With the explosion of spending on search engine advertising continuing to alter the marketing realm, have there been any ramifications for traditional information entities? According to a new study, it does in fact look like search engine marketing may be pulling revenue away from those who are used to receiving large advertising returns.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-02
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Search Engines Giving Some Support
SEO Roundtable has a few posts on search engine employees who are giving feedback and advice to webmasters in SEO forums. Rusty points to GoogleGuy, who's been running his own thread at WebmasterWorld where he explains Google Toolbar PageRank and backlink updates and other things webmasters have been wildly speculating.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-02
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Former Google VP Aims For The Stars
It's well known Google likes to go after the best and the brightest when it comes to staffing considerations. To ensure they do get bright applicants, Google's talent recruitment has used a number of innovative methods to attract what is considered a promising prospect.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-02
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Yahoo and Google continue to update SERPs
Google's most recent update is taking longer than usual to complete. As reported here two weeks ago, Google is updating its algorithm and this update is causing volatility in the search engine results under various keywords and keyword phrases.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-02
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GoogleGuy Calls Out AdSense Spam Sites
There are a number of sites that have been developed for the express purpose of receiving ad clicks. These spam sites generate erroneous content (if they aren't scraping it from another source) and place AdSense ads in order to trick visitors into clicking the ads so the spam site developer can benefit financially.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-02
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Want Random Search Results? Shmoogle It
As most of us know, when someone uses Google to search, the results they receive are listed in accordance to Google's algorithm. Although, because most search users don't go past the third page of results, it's rare that users are exposed to the deeper results. Until now.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-01
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Shmoogle Lifts Up The Little Guy
Countless ideologue progenitors have warned against the rule of the mob-Aristotle, Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, to name a few. In the brave new world of the Internet, a new search engine, in philosophic (and satirical?) alliance has popped up in opposition to the masses that control Google results. Shmoogle loftily aims to represent the little guys that often go ignored.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-01
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Word Up. Making Movies From Search Keywords
The Age of Information is yielding some interesting art projects. Take, for example, Swiss "interactive artists" Beat Brogle and Philippe Zimmerman's online search endeavor "OneWordMovie," which marks an intriguing foray into image collections.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-01
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Google Print Draws The Ire Of Protesters
Since the announcement of Google's foray into the printed word industry, Google Print has been followed by controversy. Because of the methods being used to populate the Google Print index, many are worried about copyright issues as well as the ability to view pages in the GP result pages.
Directory:
> Inside Search > Inside Search
Date: 2005-06-01
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