Gtalkr : Google Talk on Web Based Interface Brad at the Unofficial Google Weblog points to Gtalkr, a web based Google Talk interface which “fills in some of the missing pieces of the desktop Google Talk, such as conversation searching, and starring as in Gmail.” Gtalkr runs using Macromedia Flash 8 and offers tools such [...]

Centro Local Site Advertising Network Local Search has been getting a lot of buzz recently with ShopLocal partnering with Google’s Froogle Local and Local.com to help bring more web searchers into local establishments. User reviews are on the rise and mashups are as much of a part of Yahoo, MSN, and Google’s agenda as are [...]

Threadwatch Community is Changing Hands Just a quick post that upon reading Threadwatch this morning I learned that Nick Wilson is leaving Threadwatch to concentrate on his Performancing blog project. Nick has been editing Threadwatch now for 14 months and seeing him, well, his slant on happenings around the web and search, leave was at [...]

Firefox 1.5 Offers Enhanced Navigation, Usability and RSS Discovery Mozilla Firefox, with over 100 million downloads and an estimated 45 million users under its belt, has released the latest version of its Firefox browser; Mozilla Firefox 1.5. One year after its finalized Firefox 1.0 version was launched to much fanfare, Firefox 1.5 brings more stability, [...]

Local.com and ShopLocal Partner for Local Shopping Search On the heels of its recent partnership with Google Froogle, ShopLocal has just added another local search partner, Local.com. ShopLocal and Interchange (who own Local.com) have partnered to enhance Local.com’s index of more than 16 million business listings with information from ShopLocal.com’s geo-targeted Smart Catalog and Smart [...]

Searching the Yahoo Shoposphere One of my pet peeves about the Yahoo Shoposphere was that Yahoo! Shopping hid the search feature at the bottom of the page. Well, that’s changed. There’s now a prominent ’search pick lists’ field on the right side of the page and links to popular searches like digital camera, shoes, and [...]

Commas in Meta Keyword Tags? “Should I separate my keywords in my keywords tag by using commas or just spaces?” This is the koan of the search engine optimization world which has been asked and never completely answered since the meta tag was first developed. Having heard this question for the past 8 years, I [...]

ShopLocal Powers Google Froogle Local Shopping Was sifting through Brian Smith’s Comparison Engines blog today and found this little fact which has not been covered much in the search news arena. Remember Froogle Local, a new way to search for local merchants who carry specific products? Well Brain points out that Froogle Local’s content is [...]