Search Engine Journal

Net Neutrality Addressed By Ask A Ninja
Via BoingBoing, a pretty good explanation of net neutrality for those who might not be familiar with it. Plus, the best quote ever: “That’s what the Internet is all about - people in funny hats making things that people like.” Perhaps Terry Semel should have watched this to get […]

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Terry Semel of Yahoo Interview Notes by Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine took some excellent notes of an interview primarily conducted by Ken Auletta of Yahoo’s Terry Semel. Here’s some of my favorite blurbs:
“He says he talked to Google’s founders early on about buying them. Their first offer was $1 billion “and we don’t […]

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.XXX Domains Not Going To Happen
Via the Register:
“Plans for an area of the internet dedicated to pornography were killed last night in a vote by overseeing organisation ICANN.
n a split 9-5 board decision, the organisation acted ruthlessly, against its own previous position, in order to put an end to an increasingly difficult and controversial issue […]

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Google Press Day Today
Via Google Operating System, the highly anticipated Google Press Day is today, May 10, starting at 9 AM for breakfast and then 9:30 to 1 PM for Q and A. More from the Google Press Day info:
“The second annual Google Press Day, is an informal – and we hope informative – session […]

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694 Million People Are Online
That’s probably give or take a few hundred thousand (but who’s counting). This via Son of a Pitch; Comscore reports that “that 694 million people, age 15+, used the Internet worldwide from all locations in March 2006, representing 14 percent of the world’s total population within this age group.” More […]

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“What Day Is…” Feature Compared
This morning I couldn’t for the life of me remember when Mother’s Day was, so I decided to ask a search engine, and then it just snowballed from there. First, Google. You can ask the “what day is…” question of Google up to a point:

What day is mother’s day

what day is […]

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Google Health Coming?
According to a few rumors around the Web today: Inside Google, Google Operating System, Search Engine Watch, etc. - we might be seeing a new rollout from Google next week and that would be Google Health. More from Google Operating System:
“Marissa Mayer told USA TODAY that Google will make some important announcements next […]

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British Searchers Use More Than One Search Engine
Via Pandia, a new study out from Harvest Digital shows that searchers in the UK are not tied down to just one search engine. More from the article:
“According to a study from the British marketing company Harvest Digital only 24 percent of British searchers use only one search […]

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Shopping Search API’s on Yahoo Tech
Just got this from the Yahoo PR team; the new Yahoo Tech Channel is powered by the same shopping web services available to anyone through the Yahoo! Developer Network. More information from the Yahoo Shopping API site:
“The Yahoo! Shopping APIs enable you to use Yahoo! comparison shopping data to power […]

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Windows Live Now Powering a9.com Search Results
I have not noticed this before today - if you do a search at a9.com (Amazon’s search engine), say for cheese, you’re going to see something new: a9’s search results are now powered by Windows Live, dropping Google as their search results provider. Not sure how long this […]

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