Category: Search Engines
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Google News 1.0(?)
I see Google has announced that its Google News is finally out of Beta – it has been in Beta since it launched in September 2002! Looking at the Google News site, you’d be hard pressed to see any difference but according to the announcement: today we’re adding a way to automatically recommend stories for…
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Web 2.0 to suffer from United States Department of Justice request?
I see Xeni Jardin over at Boing Boing has posted an article on how the US Department of Justice have requested a weeks worth of search data from the major US search engines. Seemingly Yahoo, AOL, and MSN simply handed over the data without any question. Google however held out and is now being taken…
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Kudos to Michele
Serious kudos to Michele Neylon of Blacknight Solutions (an Irish hosting co.) – Michele was quoted in an article in eWeek where he slates Google’s customer service: Michele Neylon was once very happy with Urchin Software Corp., which provides a service to analyze Web site traffic. But ever since search giant Google Inc. bought Urchin…
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"no banner ads on the Google homepage" – Marissa Mayer
I see the post I published earlier this week wondering if Google were now going to have banner ads on their site after their puchase of a stake in AOL has bee answered once and for all by none other than Marissa Mayer (Google’s VP of Search Products & User Experience). In a post on…
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Are Google selling out?
We’ve all heard the reports that Google are buying a chunk of AOL – no doubt to keep their business and probably to stop Microsoft from buying them up! But now, the latest story to hit the wires (New York Times) is that Google are going to start running banner ads in search results! Google…
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Salim Ismail interview podcast II
As promised, here is the second interview with Salim Ismail – Salim is chairman & co-founder of PubSub and he very kindly agreed to come back on the show to follow-up on some of the things we talked about in the last podcast – if you haven’t listened to the first interview I did with…
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Yahoo! purchase of Del.icio.us confirmed – who is flocking next?
Well, the post I made last night about the Yahoo! Del.icio.us rumours was confirmed this evening when Del.icio.us made the announcement of the takeover on its blog and Yahoo! posted the news also. All day today I was doubting my source ‘cos no-one else picked up the story but, no, it came good. It is…
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Salim Ismail interview coming up
I will be interviewing Salim Ismail, chairman & co-founder of PubSub in the next couple of days. Pubsub is a blog search engine or as Salim likes to say a “matching engine”. I was amazed to learn, from talking to Salim here at the les Blogs 2.0 conference, that Salim lived and worked in Cork…