Search Engine Journal

Google Does Shakespeare
Et tu, Google? Google has added full text of every Shakespeare play as part of Google Book Search, Explore Shakespeare with Google. All plays are nicely divided into Comedy, Tragedy, Romance, and History; in addition, Google Earth is prominently featured with the opportunity to search Shakespeare landmarks such as the Globe Theater. Eventually, […]

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RSS - Things That Make You Go Hmmm
Why doesn’t the new Yahoo Spark Blog publish an RSS feed? Of any kind? Not even an “add to my Yahoo” button?
Why can’t I subscribe to the Technorati Hot Tags widget that’s (supposedly) updated hourly?
How come eBay has RSS feeds enabled on the Announcement Board, the eBay Discussion […]

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“Secret” Google Products
Via Google Operating System, Tony Ruscoe has an interesting post on secret Google stuff. More from GOS:
“Tony Ruscoe has found many interesting Google services, using an automated tool that fetches URL addresses like https://www.google.com/ accounts/ Login?service= [GoogleService].”
“Google LH2, a service that for the moment redirects to http://lh2.google.com/lh/invitationRequired. That means it’s a closed beta. […]

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AOL Inserts Ads Inside Email
First, a bit of background from InfoWorld:
“For the first time in its history, AOL is displaying ads along with e-mail messages to its paying subscribers, to increase the delivery mechanisms of its online ad inventory, an AOL spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday.
This practice is common in free Webmail services but generally […]

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Yahoo buying into GMarket
And no, it’s not a new Google product (but wouldn’t that be a weird news story!). According to ZDNet,”U.S. Internet firm Yahoo is buying a 10 percent stake in South Korea’s No.2 online retailer Gmarket, giving it a foothold in one of Asia’s fastest-growing e-commerce industries.” More from the story:
“Gmarket is fast […]

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Google Spreadsheets
Google Spreadsheets is (semi) up and running today; it’s in a limited beta test at this point, so you can’t actually use it, but you can sign up to be one of the invited few. More about Google Spreadsheets from the official Google Spreadsheets Help Page:
“Google Spreadsheets allows you to create, store and share […]

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New Search Tab at Bloglines
From Bloglines News; there’s a new search tab within the Bloglines interface that’s the “first big mashup with Ask.com.” More from the story:
“Behind that fancy search tab is our all-new “Blog & Feed Search.” We created it by building a search index populated exclusively with Bloglines’ human-selected subscriptions. We then applied […]

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Google TV?
From The Business Online:
“GOOGLE is planning a new ­version of its search engine – designed for TV screens – that the company’s co-founder and its chief executive believe will rival traditional broadcasting.
Chief executive Eric Schmidt told The Business: “At the most people currently have access to only around 500 television channels,” said Schmidt. “They […]

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Net Neutrality and Meg Whitman of eBay
Just in the last five minutes, I’ve received a letter addressed personally to ME from the CEO of eBay, Meg Whitman! W00t! Well, not really personally..it’s to my eBay ID and I guess it went out to like a million other people..but let’s look at it anyway, shall we?
“As […]

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Reasons Why You Should Try Gada.Be
Chris Pirillo has written a lengthy manifesto presentation on why searchers should try Gada.be. He has divided it into Enthusiast, Mobile, Developer, Business, Casual, Researcher, Jobseeker, and Shopper; and given pertinent, compelling arguments for using Gada.be for each category:
“(for the Internet Enthusiast)There’s no quick way to find the feeds for […]

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