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Entries from September 2004

Sushubh

Firefox Threatens IE in the Browser Market

September 17th, 2004 by Sushubh | 32 Comments

Firefox Threatens IE in the Browser Market
Mozilla is starting to pose a threat to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer after years of being the darling of a strange mix of AOL enthusiasts and techies. This week Mozilla released the preview of FireFox 1.0, and with more web surfers becoming browser savvy, a range of reasons from security […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Amazon A9 Search Engine Offers Shopping Discount

September 17th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 5 Comments

Amazon A9 Search Engine Offers Shopping Discount
In an effort to boost Amazon’s A9 search engine usage and draw searchers away from Yahoo, Google and MSN, Amazon/A9 is offering a discount plan for A9 searchers on Amazon.com. Amazon is discounting purchases by 1.5% for A9 users as long as they register into A9 with their exisiting […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

American Red Cross and Ask Jeeves Help Hurricane Victims

September 17th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments

American Red Cross and Ask Jeeves Help Hurricane Victims
Ask Jeeves today announced that the Company has teamed with the American Red Cross to aid victims of the recent hurricanes and other disasters. Ask Jeeves has launched redcross.ask.com to offer people an easy way to help the Red Cross. Ask Jeeves will donate 100 percent of […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

2004 Election Candidate Comparison Search by PriceGrabber

September 16th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments

2004 Election Candidate Comparison Search by PriceGrabber
PriceGrabber, a shopping search engine, in conjunction with the University of Southern California’s (USC) Center for E-Government, has employed its shopping comparison technology to create a useful and unique candidate comparison tool to help voters choose between more than 100 candidates in the 2004 U.S. Presidential, Senate and Gubernatorial […]

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Sushubh

Another GMail Notifier: GMNotifier

September 16th, 2004 by Sushubh | 13 Comments

Another GMail Notifier: GMNotifier
Google already released their own version of GMail notifier. However, people find it to be pretty basic. So, the market of unofficial notifiers is still hot. And here is another one of those nifty utilities that makes GMail more fun than it already is! What is different between the official and this […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

FindWhat and BizJournals Ink Search Advertising Deal

September 16th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment

FindWhat and BizJournals Ink Search Advertising Deal
FindWhat.com today announced an exclusive search engine advertising relationship with Bizjournals, the nation’s largest publisher of metropolitan business newspapers and popular business news website publisher.
Under the terms of the exclusive search advertising distribution agreement, FindWhat.com will supply Bizjournals.com and each of its 41 local metropolitan business news websites (like […]

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GuestColumnist

A9 Offers Search Results From Five Sources

September 16th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 2 Comments

A9 Offers Search Results From Five Sources
A9, the search engine from Amazon.com, has relaunched its search engine. It now offers search results from several different sources, including the IMDB and of course, Amazon.com.
I decided to search for Duke Ellington. “Duke Ellington” brought about 156,000 results (less than half the results the same search brings […]

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Loren Baker, Editor

Feedster and Eurekster Mix RSS, Blogs, and Social Search

September 16th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments

Feedster and Eurekster Mix RSS, Blogs, and Social Search
Feedster, Inc., the RSS feed and blog search engine, today announced that it will power RSS and blog search results for Eurekster, the Internet search engine powered by social networking technology. By integrating Feedster’s news search technology and RSS feeds, Eurekster now provides its users and subscribers […]

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GuestColumnist

Google Enhances Google Local Search Engine

September 16th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | No Comments

Google Enhances Google Local Search Engine
Google has announced enhancements to its newish Google Local service at http://local.google.com . When you go to the page you’ll see a space for what you’re looking for and another space for where you’ll looking. The results pages is where you’ll see the real difference.
I decided I wanted to find […]

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Sushubh

First impressions of Firefox 1.0 preview release

September 15th, 2004 by Sushubh | 24 Comments

First impressions of Firefox 1.0 preview release
Firefox is my second choice for a web browser. Opera comes first. No doubts about that. But Firefox in itself is a pretty decent browser. My requirement from a browser has risen with my long time usage of Opera so I just cannot move on to Firefox. Especially when […]

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