Search Engine Journal

Ask Jeeves to Rebrand as Ask
In what should be a very good move for Barry Diller’s IAC, rumors are flying around MarketWatch that IAC will be dropping the Jeeves from Ask Jeeves and rebranding as Ask. In the piece, Biller is quoted as saying “We’re thinking about renaming it,…It probably won’t be called Ask Jeeves.”
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SEO Quiz May Answer Who’s the Most Knowledgeable SEM Person
SEOMoz, aka. Randfish, has put together one nice SEO Quiz which was done as a reaction to a recent thread on Search Engine Watch Forums entitled Vote for the Most Knowledgeable SEW Forum Member. So far, Barry Schwartz of Rusty Brick and SERoundtable is in the […]

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Web Analytics Needs Standards Bad
Is the Web Analytics Association doing anything? I am not being sarcastic, I really do not know. What I do know is that when you install any Web analytics program, each one will report different numbers.
Today, I installed an open source analytics program named AW Stats just to test this. […]

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MSN Virtual Earth Demo
Virtual Earth is MSN’s answer to Google Maps and maybe even Google Earth. So much to cover, but here are some features I noticed that were different than Google Maps.
* Aerial Maps
* More controls - Keyboard navigation, Mouse Scroll Wheel to zoom
* Zoom in all modes - Can zoom in very close
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Mega BizFest Wilmington, DE : Internet Marketing Speaking Engagement
I’ll be speaking on a panel at Wilmington Delaware’s Mega BizFest on June 10th, representing the field of Internet Marketing and Search on behalf of WebAdvantage.net. This is one of my first speaking panel engagements and I’m really looking forward to it - seeing it as a […]

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Exalead Combines Search Features
Found a link to Exalead through Seth Godin’s site. Although Exalead’s results are not as relevant as the top search engines, Exalead is doing some interesting things on the presentation side.
In addition to normal search results, Exalead allows users to filter by related search terms, related categories (clustering), web site location (local […]

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MSN Virtual Earth vs. Google Earth
In the battle of the interactive maps, MSN is seeking to challenge Google’s satellite mapping supremacy with a suite of mapping tools that will seek to combine the best elements of satellite mapping with A9’s Yellow Pages local business photography and Yahoo! Maps’ layered results.
Virtual Earth, to be built on […]

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Yahoo Announces Media RSS 1.0
Back in December 2004, Yahoo first announced Media RSS in conjunction with their Video Search. Last week they announced the completion of the Media RSS 1.0 standard.
From the specification information: “Media RSS extends enclosures to handle other media types, such as short films or TV, as well as provide additional metadata […]

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Bittorent Planning to Launch Search Engine
BitTorrent is planning to launch an advertising-supported search engine allowing users to find live torrent files. The search results will display sponsored links through Ask Jeeves.
The most interesting aspect of BitTorrent’s search engine is their ranking system. Current search engines rank results by relevancy, while BitTorrent’s search engine will rank […]

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Bo Bice Will Win American Idol Says AOL
For those of you that actually watch American Idol, AOL has just released their predictions of who will win the FOX Television talent contest. According to the AOL Search Index, Bo Bice (the hippie) has been a solid AOL Search favorite over the course of the Idol season […]

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