Shopping Search Toolbars Now Obsolete?
Brain Smith of Comparison Engines does a rundown on Shopping Search Toolbars and compares their likability to that of Clippy the Paper Clip : “Remember Clippy the Paper Clip? Remember how much you hated Clippy?”. Brian has an inside track on the shopping toolbar scene after working at WhenU where he […]
Entries from October 2005
Shopping Search Toolbars Now Obsolete?
October 26th, 2005 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Yahoo’s Trip Planner
October 26th, 2005 by Greg Sterling | 1 Comment
Yahoo’s Trip Planner
There are three dimensions to local: “where I am,” “where I’m going” and “where can I buy it?” The new Yahoo! Trip Planner seeks to leverage a number of Yahoo!’s locally oriented applications and information, including search, maps and user-generated content (ratings/reviews). The app also lets users share their trips with others (per […]
Yahoo Blog Search Desktop Application
October 26th, 2005 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Yahoo Blog Search Desktop Application
Yahoo integrated Yahoo Blog Search into its Yahoo News results weeks ago, but has not introduced an independent blog search product outisde of its Yahoo News listings. Duncan from BlogHerald found a release about Yahoo possibly licensing its blog search technology to third parties. The following is from a release from […]
Google Video Adds Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Interview Series
October 26th, 2005 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Google Video Adds Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Interview Series
Google and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation are working together to make TASF interviews available for viewing on Google Video. The first 75 of the 284 historic films (which equals to about 240 viewing hours) can be watched on Google Video. […]
Google Updates Jagger 2 & Jagger 3 On The Way
October 26th, 2005 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments
Google Updates Jagger 2 & Jagger 3 On The Way
Who said that the latest Google updates were not a big deal? Instead of conforming its latest algorithm and indexing changes to a big Florida-esque Google Update, Google is releasing a series of three index updates which will result in one overall ranking change for the […]
AOL Feeding Featured Content into Video Search Engine
October 26th, 2005 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
AOL Feeding Featured Content into Video Search Engine
AOL has added new RSS feeds from partners for its video search engines, AOL Video Search and SingingFish. Such video content partners include Blastro.com, EVTV1.com, Forbes.com, GameTrailers.com, PC World and Time4 Media properties.
“We’re thrilled to include these partners in our industry-leading AOL Video Search,” said Kevin Conroy, Executive […]
MSN Book Search Joins Yahoo in Open Content Alliance
October 26th, 2005 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments
MSN Book Search Joins Yahoo in Open Content Alliance
MSN is now getting into the book scanning and indexing game along with Google Print, Yahoo, and a handful of European groups with MSN Book Search. MSN Search will soon be launching MSN Book Search, digitizing the content from books, academic materials, periodicals and other print resources. […]
FastClick Pop Up Boycott Gaining Steam
October 25th, 2005 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
FastClick Pop Up Boycott Gaining Steam
Have a pop up blocker on your browser (most are default now) but those pesky pop ups still finding a way to work around the blocker? It happens to me everyday, even on Firefox and I’m not talking about DHTML ads, but normal browser window pop ups.
Steve at AdRants […]
Google Base Tests Classifieds, Real Estate and Recipes
October 25th, 2005 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
Google Base Tests Classifieds, Real Estate and Recipes
What is Google Base? Is it Google classifieds system, a content upload database driven multi-use tool, a possible auctions area? Google tested their Base.Google.com page for about an hour yesterday and set off a swarm of buzz about the new Google Base program, which is still a mystery.
Hand […]
Holiday Online Shopping - Get Ready for a Big Season
October 25th, 2005 by GuestColumnist | 1 Comment
Holiday Online Shopping - Get Ready for a Big Season
Hope everyone is all geared up for a big holiday shopping season. Growth indicators all point to a nice upward swing in online spending and gift shopping this year. Consumers are also starting to shop online earlier than ever with many starting to shop already this […]
