Search Engine Journal

Accoona: Time to Worry?
Last Fall general purpose (as opposed to niche) search engine Accoona launched to considerable media fanfare. Yes the name does come from the Swahili phrase “acoona matata,” popularized in the U.S. by the Disney film The Lion King. Though I’m sure everyone already knows, the meaning of the phrase is “no worries.”
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Blogdigger Local: New Twist on Local Search
I missed Blogdigger’s announcement about the addition of local a few days ago. Local.blogdigger.com appears to be a mix of local search, blog/news search and community. The results of my few quick searches weren’t very impressive. But the concept is pretty interesting.
From the press release: “It is well known […]

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Politicial Blogs Cause Bias in Google News Coverage
There was a study conducted by Eric Ulken named Non-traditional sources cloud Google News results. In the study, Eric claims “that the search engine’s selection of online-only news sources to include in Google News skews its search results toward political extremes.”
“When articles from non-traditional sources are omitted from […]

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Ask Jeeves Buys Excite Europe
Ask Jeeves has acquired Excite Europe from Tiscali for EUR 6.1 millions (an apparent pittance). In March of last year, Ask Jeeves bought Excite.com in the U.S.
Also today, Ask Jeeves and InfoSpace announced they had settled litigation associated with the earlier U.S. Excite acquisition and that they would jointly support the […]

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My Google - Personal Google Home Page
My Google is here. Though that’s not the official name, that’s what the new home page personalization features seem to amount to. While the move is not a tremendous surprise—we speculated about My Google when Google News personalization was released—it does appear to be something of a directional change […]

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Google AdWords Adds Account Size Limitation
I haven’t heard this talked about anywhere else, but a client of mine notified me that his AdWords representative told him he needs to reduce the number of keywords within his new campaigns “to ensure that they do not place unnecessary load on our advertising servers.” To be honest, my […]

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eBay on Cable TV, Buys More Int’l Classified Sites
Nothing radical in one sense, but the development is very interesting and another harbinger of—dare I say it—TV-Internet convergence. (Actually there won’t be true convergence, but some mixing of TV and Internet on both mediums).
Separately, eBay bought two classified sites that it will fold into Kijiji.com (outside […]

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Google Homepage Personalized or Portal?
Many of you are already aware of Google’s new lab announcement, Personalize Your Homepage. It is very interesting that Google says nothing about “portal” in this announcement, at least I haven’t seen the word used much. It is more about “personalization” then “portal”. There are tons of opinions on that distinction […]

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New Google Personalized Homepage in Beta - Answer to My Yahoo!
Finally, Google has figured out a way to tie in all of their subscription services into one offering and has also given its users a reason to use Google’s personalized search. Directly from Google Factory Tour live, Luca Conti of Panedemia taken some slides about […]

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Google and MSN Desktop Search Tools Go Corporate
Just when you thought MSN and Google Desktop Search tools were like a link from Fark.com and “not safe for work”, the two companies come out with more secure Enterprise versions of their popular desktop search software. Google yesterday announced Google Desktop Search for Enterprise which is a […]

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