Search Engine Journal

Yahoo Maps To Add Traffic Updates and Reports
Yahoo is not only becoming the goto place for multimedia search and online entertainment, it’s also now offering a new service for monitoring traffic conditions online. Yahoo’s offering of traffic updates lets users plan their daily travel routes around slowdowns like constructon or perhaps even accidents.
Yahoo users […]

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Google Froogle Adds Product Reviews
Almost at the end of the Holiday online shopping season (unless you’re going overnight delivery) Google has broken the mold of their Froogle shopping comparison search engine (not the Jello mold, but the Beta mold) and added 3rd Party product reviews.
Google said that the product reviews will help users “make more […]

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Google AdWords Content Changes Yield Results
Search Engine Lowdown’s Andy Beal had a chance to speak with Google’s Mike Mayzel regarding the changes Google made to their AdWords (or AdSense) contextual ad network over the past year. Here are some findings from the conversation.
Andy on AdWords:
In partnership with Atlas, Google looked at aggregate data across their […]

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Does Your Copy Look “Fake” To the Search Engines?
From the early days of search engine optimization, keywords and content have always been vital to achieving your goals. Starting back in the days when we used to shove every slightly relevant keyword into our Meta tags, it has been obvious that search engines love text. The […]

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I Want My blinkx TV! Television Search Engine
blinkx today announced the availability of blinkx TV, the first search engine that allows you to search TV across news, sports and entertainment programming. blinkx is the first search engine to make such TV programs fully searchable on demand. Because blinkx captures and indexes the entire video stream […]

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Jon Stewart’s Humiliation of Tucker Carlson the Most Popular Blog Story of 2004
According to Intelliseek’s BlogPulse, the transcript of comedian Jon Stewart’s October debate with CNN “Crossfire” hosts Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala was the No. 1 “blogged” news item of 2004. Bloggers linked to the “Crossfire” transcript in their online commentaries 1,880 times in […]

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Google Planning To Index Entire Libraries
For a long time there have been rumors going around about Project Ocean, a project by Google to index all the pre-1923 content in the Stanford Library. (I’d call it a little stronger than a rumor since it was in the New York Times, but Google wouldn’t comment on it.)
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Ask Jeeves Introduces Yet Another Desktop Search Tool
Ask Jeeves yesterday joined Microsoft in introducing a beta desktop search application. Ask Jeeves states that its Desktop Search makes it easy for people to find information on their computers or the Internet. Upon installation of the small (750K) application, Ask Jeeves Desktop Search creates an index of […]

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Elements of Web Hosting
When you first start out trying to get a site on the Internet everything seems so confusing. Obtuse acronyms flow freely through the ‘Beginner Friendly’ information sites and definitions can be hard to come across. The main reason for this is that the Internet and the process of getting a website online […]

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Job Search Service Finds Careers for Bloggers
Well, I knew all of this blogging, typing, reading and sitting at home for a year learning about blogging would pay off one day! Blogger-Jobs.com, a Web site launched last month by veteran weblogger Jeremy Wright and www.recruiting.com, provides a recruitment service that matches employers with bloggers. Blogger-Jobs.com capitalizes […]

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