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Topix Increases Local News Sources
As major search engines work to include local searches and news, Topix.com, a site devoted to local news from around the country, has nearly doubled the amount of local news sources it crawls, from 3600 to 6000.
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Date: 2004-03-31
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Google Cannot Find Canada
This week, Google launched its redesigned site that included many new features integrated into the search engine. One such addition is Google's personalized search.
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Date: 2004-03-31
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Digital Envoy Files Suit Against Google
An unfair business practice and misappropriation of trade secrets suit has been filed against search engine giant Google. Digital Envoy, a company that targets ads to consumers, is responsible for the filing.
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Date: 2004-03-30
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Overture Introduces Ads For UK Mobiles
Soon, mobile phones in the UK will be displaying advertiser sponsored search engine-style links. Overture, a Yahoo owned company that sells text link ads, announced a deal with two major mobile phone companies, Vodafone and France Telecom-owned Orange, to bring these ads to mobile phone users.
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Date: 2004-03-30
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Google Launches Redesign
A major salvo has been fired as the fight for search engine traffic rages on. Today, Google has announced the launch of three new search features, as well as a redesigned index and results page.
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Date: 2004-03-29
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Google Personalizes Search
As search engines fight for dominance, search result relevance has become a crucial battleground. Users want search engine returns that relate to the topic being searched.
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Date: 2004-03-29
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Dogpile Updates Toolbar, Features News Feed Search
This week, Dogpile launched an updated version of its search toolbar. The newest version now features an RSS "ticker" designed to give users the ability to track their favorite news source. Atom's news feed service is also available to Dogpile toolbar users.
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Date: 2004-03-29
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Yahoo Acquires Kelkoo
Moving to solidify their position as the web's largest portal, Yahoo announced they would be purchasing European Internet shopping portal Kelkoo.
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Date: 2004-03-26
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InfoSpace Buys Switchboard
InfoSpace, an Internet search and directory company, announced on Friday that it would be acquiring rival Switchboard. The terms of the acquisition are for $160 million, with the deal expected to be complete by the end of 2004.
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Date: 2004-03-26
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MapQuest Tries Out Local Search
AOL owned MapQuest.com has recently introduced a local search engine called MQSearch. Currently in its beta testing stage, MQSearch offers users the ability to seek out local businesses and locations.
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Date: 2004-03-26
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Another Googlebomb Explodes
Googlebombing, the act of compromising search results using external links, has exploded close to its namesake. There have been a few famous Googlebombs recently (weapons of mass destruction, miserable failure, etc). This time, the executives of Google are the targets.
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Date: 2004-03-25
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MediSeeker.com Offers No Frills Medical Search
Well-developed niche search engines offer a more refined search based on a particular topic. MediSeeker.com offers a search engine that not only specializes in medical search results, but also aims to reduce search result clutter.
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Date: 2004-03-25
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The Future Of Google Voice Search
Speech Search, available in pre-beta stages at Google Labs, is an attempt to give users the ability to search Google through a voice interface. Speech Search gives users who are not at a computer the ability to search for driving directions, restaurant information, and even the aisle location of an item in your local supermarket.
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Date: 2004-03-24
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Reuters Fights Content Theft
In a move worthy of the RIAA, news giant Reuters announced it would begin tracking copyright violations of its content using Fast Search & Transfer's (FAST) software. FAST is a developer of enterprise search and real-time alerting technologies.
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Date: 2004-03-24
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Google Faces Stiff Competition
There are many players in the battle for search engine supremacy. Google, Yahoo, and MSN are the biggest, with each company seeking a dominant position in an industry that is considered to be one of the fastest growing ever.
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Date: 2004-03-23
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GuruNet Brings Answers To Your Fingertips
If combing through page after page of search engine results isn't your cup of tea, GuruNet.com may have an answer for you. GuruNet for Windows, one of four products GuruNet.com offers, gives the ability to find answers with a simple ALT-Click.
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Date: 2004-03-23
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Google Sued Over PageRank
A man in Southern California is irate over the results of "Googling" his name. Mark Maughan, certified public accountant of the Brown & Maughan firm, believes the search results for "Mark Maughan" contained "alarming, false, misleading and injurious results."
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Date: 2004-03-22
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Yahoo Launches Enhanced Yahoo Autos
Today, Yahoo launched Yahoo Autos offering consumers a new way to search for comprehensive automotive content online. The site was designed based on consumer and advertiser input.
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Date: 2004-03-22
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Lycos Introduces HotBot Desktop
Today, Lycos announced the launch of the HotBot Desktop search toolbar. The HotBot Desktop allows users to search the web, giving the results in a browser window.
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Date: 2004-03-22
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FindWhat Partners To Expand B2B Search
FindWhat.com, a provider of performance-based marketing and commerce, has announced that it is partnering with Thomas Global Register to provide a marketplace listings service using FindWhat.com's private label service.
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Date: 2004-03-22
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AOL Secures Google Shares
America Online, a major Internet service provider, has been given the right to buy 1.9 million preferred shares of Google stock. This venture comes from a deal made in June 2002 between the two giants, as reported by AOL in a recent SEC filing.
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Date: 2004-03-19
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Yahoo Releases Webrank
Yahoo announced that it was releasing a web page ranking tool. Similar to Google's PageRank, Webrank is integrated into Yahoo's newest version of their search toolbar, called Yahoo Companion.
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Date: 2004-03-19
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EU Initiates Project SEKT
The European Commission is spearheading an effort to improve the overall quality of Internet searching. The hope is that search engines will approach the overall depth of information with a more "human" approach.
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Date: 2004-03-19
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MSN Alters Search Ads
MSN has announced that they are going to start labeling their paid search-listings more clearly. MSN is attempting make their ads more search term relevant.
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Date: 2004-03-19
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China Shuts Down Blog Sites
Chinese officials have closed two popular blog sites used by its citizens, citing objectionable blog content. Many of the blogs openly question China's government policies.
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Date: 2004-03-18
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Fast Search Speeds Up Enterprise Research
Fast Search is hitting the search market hard with their software, Fast Enterprise Search Platform (ESP), designed to assist enterprise businesses as they try and sift through mountains of information.
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Date: 2004-03-18
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New NannieBots ''Search'' For Pedophiles
There is new software that can now detect pedophiles attempting to lure children in chatrooms. Called ChatNannies, the software creates thousands of nanniebots that log onto different chatrooms and initiate conversations.
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Date: 2004-03-18
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Introducing Google Local
Today, search engine giant Google announced the integration of local-area search results into Google's own with the launch of Google Local.
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Date: 2004-03-17
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InteractiveCorp Buys TripAdvisor
It was revealed in a recent announcement that InterActiveCorp is buying the travel search engine TripAdvisor. InterActiveCorp, based Manhattan, is using this purchase to increase its growing Internet presence.
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Date: 2004-03-17
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Overture Europe Changes Leadership
Overture Services, an Internet search firm, has promoted Stephen Taylor to the managing director for Overture Europe. The move replaces Nick Hynes, the man responsible for launching Overture in the UK.
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Date: 2004-03-17
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MetaCarta Makes Geographic Search Easier
Geographic Text Search (GTS) makes finding geographic sensitive information much easier. Released by MetaCarta, GTS is designed to find and organize search results based on a region of interest that the user indicates.
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Date: 2004-03-17
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Organize Your Search Results
Keeping track of research done using Internet search engines can be a difficult process. Onfolio, a company located in Cambridge, Mass., has released software designed to simplify this task.
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Date: 2004-03-16
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Google’s Image Database Surpassed?
Internet Security Systems, Inc. is claiming to have passed Google has the largest image database in the world. ISS, a web-content filter company, stated their filtering software recently added the 1 billionth image to its filter database.
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Date: 2004-03-16
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Over 100 Million Americans Use Search Engines
Nielsen//NetRatings recently reported that 1 in 3 Americans use search engines in their daily lives. This means that over 76% of the online population uses one of many available search engines in their day-to-day browsing.
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Date: 2004-03-12
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Email Linking Microsoft to SCO Confirmed
SCO spokesman Blake Stowell has confirmed that a memo indicating Microsoft is funding SCO's attacks on Linux is legitimate. The memo was leaked last week to Eric Raymond by "an anonymous whistleblower."
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Date: 2004-03-12
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FCC Goes After Mobile Phone Spam
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced today its intent to protect cell phones, pagers and other mobile devices from unwanted text messages and emails.
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Date: 2004-03-11
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RSS Proponent Seeks Cooperation with Google
Dave Winer, a major advocate of RSS has proposed a truce with Google and other sites that have partnered with competing syndication format, Atom. RSS is currently the industry leader in syndication and went virtually unchallenged until Google's recent announcement.
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Date: 2004-03-10
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Lycos Founder on Venture Capitalism
Bob Davis, a partner with Highland Capital Partners, offered his insight into the world of investment banking during a presentation at last week's Search Engine Strategies conference.
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Date: 2004-03-08
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SEM Growing Faster Than Projected
Safa Rashtchy was a speaker during the "Swimming with the Sharks: What You'll Get From VCs and Investment Bankers" session at this week's Search Engine Strategies conference.
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Date: 2004-03-05
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The Paid Inclusion Crisis
The debate over whether paid inclusion programs will reduce search result quality is spreading like a wildfire but the search engine getting the blunt of its burden is Yahoo.
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Date: 2004-03-04
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Don't Underestimate Search Advertising
During this week's Search Engine Strategies conference it was stated that search engine marketers currently make up 22% of the people buying online advertisements, often bidding on thousands of search terms with million dollar budgets.
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Date: 2004-03-04
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Site Match Officially Launched
Ever since whispers about Overture's new paid inclusion product were leaked at last week's WebmasterWorld PubConference, e-Business professionals have been wondering when the service would be officially released.
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Date: 2004-03-03
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The Site Match Stink
Apparently, there was a big stink during one session yesterday when Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan pulled Yahoo's Tim Mayer up onstage to discuss Site Match.
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Date: 2004-03-03
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The Google-Yahoo Competition
Today's Search Engine Strategies session titled "the Future of Search" brought representatives from Google, Yahoo, AOL and AskJeeves into the same panel.
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Date: 2004-03-03
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