Search Engine Journal

Google Calendar Tips
Douglas Bowman, who helped design Google Calendar, has some great tips for getting the most out of Google Calendar.
Since I’ve been an early user of Google Calendar for a few months now, thought I’d share a few tips that may make the jump a little smoother for others. Some tips may seem obvious, […]

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PaperRank Implemented on Google Scholar
Today Google launched a new feature over at Google Scholar - a system that ranks scholarly papers and information based upon criteria Google believes researchers value.
Today we’re launching a feature of Google Scholar which will make it easier for researchers to keep up with recent research. From quantum computing to copper […]

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Google Voice Recognition Search Patent
From ArsTechnica: Patent #7,027,987 issued today by the US Patent and Trademark Office covers a “Voice interface for a search engine,”…Translation: the system listens to your spoken query, does its magic, and returns the results.
Google has not publicly commented on this voice search effort, although the company’s Alexander Franz did co-author […]

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Yahoo Travel, FareChase, and APIs
Yahoo just announced the general availability of FareChase:
Yahoo! FareChase (which is now in general availability) is a travel search engine that searches across many airline sites like AA.com, hotel sites like Sheraton.com, and on-line travel agency websites such as Orbitz.com and Cheaptickets.com, to give searchers a comprehensive set of prices and […]

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Standford Daily Pulls Doorway Page
Yesterday, news spread of the Stanford Daily’s repeated decision to host doorway pages. But if you check the doorway pages today, you’ll notice they are no longer live. (The pages are still viewable in Google’s cache) Back in May of 2005, the Stanford Daily stopped hosting doorway pages, but obviously for […]

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New Google AdSense Layout and Features
From the AdSense blog: You can now access all AdSense products from the AdSense Setup tab within your account — edit your color palettes, get code snippets, access your channels, and more. As we add even more products and features, they’ll all share a consistent style to keep AdSense easy […]

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Yahoo Adds Wikipedia Links
Yahoo recently announced that Yahoo Search will be including additional links for each Wikipedia entry. Now when a search comes back with a Wikipedia entry, you’ll see links to to the main sections of the Wikipedia entry also.
As you can see, the Wikipedia result now has a link to Coffee bean types […]

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