Shopping Comparison Engine News : Snap, Smarter.com, and Shopping.com A number of stories today about shopping comparison engines. Mylene Mangalindan writes a piece in the WSJ Personal Journal section. The article mentions Smarter.com’s coupons, Vendio’s toolbar, and BuySafe’s antifraud guarantees as services offered by “a new crop of start-ups [that are] pushing the price-comparison concept [...]

Ask Jeeves Launches Blog Search in Japan Ask Jeeves has released a blog search engine into the Japanese market. The service, currently in beta, includes the ability to subscribe to feeds in Bloglines, and currently has over 4 million Japanese blogs in its index. In May of 2005 Japan Today reports that number of blogs [...]

Yahoo Instant Search is Nifty Yahoo is beta testing a new feature called instant search which, when you type in a search term, serves a pop-up balloon with the first search result listed for that term. So, you type the term – wikipedia, and after you finish typing the term and before you push “Search [...]

Google Looking for Search Engine Marketers Google is heavily recruiting established Search Engine Marketers according to Teddie ar Search Engine War who received a call from Google’s recruitment agency on Wednesday. Teddie says he could not believe his ears and was flattered. As Google positions itself as more of a media agency than just a [...]

Yahoo!’s New Mail and Loyalty Yahoo! intitated a beta test with a limited number of users (sadly I’m not among that select group) and is preparing to launch a much-improved Web based email product. Beyond putting pressure on rivals (especially Hotmail), it will seek to cement loyalty among users (and prevent defections to Gmail). Mail [...]