Search Engine Journal

Answers.com and IceRocket Partner for Blog Search
Answers.com, a Gurunet owned answer-based search engine, and IceRocket.com have partnered to direct IceRocket.com visitors to Answers.com for reference content, and Answers.com will send its “blog search” traffic to IceRocket. Answers.com/GuruNet will receive a share of any revenues generated by its referral traffic to IceRocket. IceRocket Blog Search has […]

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Microsoft Avalanche to Challenge BitTorrent
BitTorrent has proven itself as a useful technology for both file downloading and even downsizing the costing of hosting huge files for companies. The darkside of file sharing seems to always include controversy since “BitTorrents are also being used to share pirated digital content inviting the wrath of associations like MPAA […]

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Coverage of Webmaster World Conference on Search Engine Roundtable
Barry Schwartz, of the award winning blog Search Engine Roundtable, will be covering the Webmaster World Conference in New Orleans this week (which I couldn’t attend).Barry has set up a category for this specific conference named WebmasterWorld 2005 New Orleans on his Search Engine Roundtable blog.
From Barry’s […]

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Contextual Advertising Firm ContextWeb Secures More Funding
ContextWeb, an ad link in site text contestual targeting network similar (but not the same as) Intellitxt, today announced that it has closed a $9 million Series B round of funding, led by Updata Partners. This round of funding, combined with an initial round brings ContextWeb’s total equity investment […]

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Yahoo Allows for Personal Spam Filtering
I just noticed that Yahoo is allowing users to block search results. You click the “block” link and this prevents the result from showing up in future searches.
I can see Yahoo using this data to implement Bayesian filtering for personalized web searches. As people continue to block and save sites […]

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Google Wallet Sign of Relief for PayPal Users
News broke yesterday that Google is releasing an online payment system dubbed as Google Wallet. This will be one of the first major steps by Google to diversify its offerings beyond search and Greg Sterling of the Kelsey Group writes that “the market will soon demand this to […]

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ZoomInfo -Meta People Search Engine
Wanna find out about someone you’re dating, hiring, or working with? Try out ZoomInfo, a meta search engine of sorts which looks up the history of people’s names you search for. Googling someone only goes so far, ZoomInfo brings alot of public information to its users in one or two easy […]

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Infosearch Media (ArticleInsider) Battles Click Fraud
InfoSearch Media today announced it has integrated two new click fraud-prevention offerings which are dubbed Dynamic Traffic Distribution, a traffic delivery system, and Dynamic Monitoring, a real-time fraud-detection tool.
According to the InfoSearch Media release, Dynamic Traffic Distribution displays anonymous text ads across InfoSearch Media’s content network in an indiscernible pattern, […]

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Google Wallet Service to Rival PayPal
According to a WSJ article, Google plans to offer an online payment system similar to eBay’s PayPal. “For Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., a payment service could represent a significant expansion beyond online advertising, which generated 99 percent of its $3.2 billion in revenue last year, the Journal said. […]

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Yahoo Search to Update Index Tonight
Tim Mayer from Yahoo! blogged today an entry named Second Weather Report: Yahoo! Launching New Search Index Tonight. The first weather report was named Tim Update because Tim announced it, I wonder what this one will be named… I am pretty sure they rushed this new index out before the […]

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