HotBot.com Sheds Its Skin and Soaks Some Rays

Hotbot, which has made the transfer from a top search engine to a top metasearch in a quite impressive fashion, recently held a contest for its users to create a new look itself. The entries were quite impressive and Hotbot has annouced its winners of the "Hack Hotbot" Contest.The Grand Prize went to the Tiki Beach Party hack, which gives a new life to the multiple search solution:Runners Up … [Read more...]

Hotbot, which has made the transfer from a top search engine to a top metasearch in a quite impressive fashion, recently held a contest for its users to create a new look itself. The entries were quite impressive and Hotbot has annouced its winners of the “Hack Hotbot” Contest. The Grand Prize went to the [...]

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Let the Spam out of the Can – Hormel Goes to Court to Preserve Spam’s Name and Image

Google may be full of Search Engine Spam, my email reeks of spam, but Hormel fights to make sure that we all keep our bellies full of their wonderful mystery meat. CNN.com – Hormel fights to defend Spam name – Jul. 4, 2003 “AUSTIN, Minnesota (AP) — Hormel Foods has filed two legal challenges with [...]

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Political Search for Watch Dogging- Government Information Awareness

Happy July 4th! Researchers at MIT Media Labs have just unveiled the GIA, Government Information Awareness. It seems to be a “google-esque” way of keeping an open tab on the government. And its about time! Apparently the GIA got its mentorship from the “Terrorism Information Awareness” information solution used to keep track on shadey email [...]

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About.com Adopts Blog Technology for all 450 Guide Sites

We talked to About.com’s Director of Search, Marshall D. Simmons yesterday and here’s what we have to say about this breaking news. About.com has announced that they have changed their entire site of guide driven informational sites into, well, the world’s largest BLOG! About.com is now using blog technology to keep their information updated and [...]

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Site Linking that Makes Sense

Daria Goetsch of Search Innovation writes on the varibles that have taken effect on the simple web building block of site linking. Her article looks at Google Pagerank, choosing who to link to, reciprocal linking fears, and mass linking out of control! Daria writes “When you are building links to increase your link popularity, who [...]

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Are iWon and Lycos up to something?

CBSMarketWatch reports iWon.com may have its sights on Lycos

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UCmore Categorizes the Internet and Makes Searching Simpler

UCmore is a search content and web surf technology company that offers two updated search tools, the UCmore Toolbar and UCmore Search. UCmore Toolbar The UCmore toolbar is a download which helps to optimize your searching experience by suggesting relevant sites to your search queries and the sites that you currently surf. Unlike other toolbars [...]

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