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Not too long ago, Google Inc seemed little more than a nuisance to Microsoft Corp’s software domination. No more. Read the rest of this entry »

The Internet’s first search engine tracking newly posted content went live today at www.pubsub.com. Developed by Manhattan’s PubSub Concepts, the search engine alerts users every time a search match is produced. Read the rest of this entry »

New Yahoo! Mail Enhancements, Including SearchGreetings from Yahoo! Mail. Today we are rolling out several new enhancements across the globe and thought I’d take a minute to tell you specifically about three of them: improved search, full implementation of DomainKeys and Address AutoComplete. More

Buy.com Partners with Google AdWords

Internet retailer Buy.com announced a partnership with Google to deliver Google AdWords ads to Buy.com customers.

Google’s relevant, targeted ads are now incorporated throughout Buy.com’s online product sections, including books, music and DVDs. Google provides Buy.com customers with AdWords listings on their search results page.

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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Google has opened an office just down the road from rival Microsoft’s headquarters in Seattle’s suburbs as it seeks to lure local engineering talent, the No. 1 search engine company has said. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft search falls far short

NEW YORK — Microsoft Corp. isn’t often an underdog in anything, so when the software powerhouse released its new search engine, I was anxious to give it a whirl. First the good news: MSN Search has a few features that go beyond Google — laudable given Google’s formidable head start. Read the rest of this entry »

Reports are coming in that GoogleBot, the program Google uses to crawl and index the internet, is going wild, visiting some pages over a million times a day, and causing problems not unlike most viruses. Read the rest of this entry »

Spammer Convicted to Nine Years in Prison

Yesterday the first two spammers ever were convicted of a felony for sending fraudulent unsolicited commercial e-mail - spam. Jeremy Jaynes and Jessica DeGroot, a brother and sister team, were convicted in a Virginia court Wednesday of sending AOL users millions of unsolicited commercial e-mail messages while evading AOL’s filters. DMNews report that jurors recommended that Jaynes receive nine years in prison and fined DeGroot $7,500. More

Google investors are learning this week that the company’s stock price can’t defy the laws of gravity. Read the rest of this entry »

FyberSearch Acquires RSS Feed Search Engine

FyberSearch announced the acquisition of the feed archive search engine FeedPlex today in hopes of adding to its collection of useful search tools. FeedPlex is a feed search engine that provides Internet users the ability to find data in XML/RSS format on the web.

“We are very happy to announce this acquisition, and to have such a diligent search engine ‘make something out of it’,” said Sid Yadav, former CEO and co-founder of FeedPlex.

The WebmasterWorld of Search Conference scheduled for November 16-18 in Las Vegas has published a final speaker roster and announced over 24 sessions with more than 70 industry-leading speakers.

The event will feature a Keynote Speech from Noel McMichael, CEO of Marketleap, and a special session hosted by Google. “There are three Super Sessions this time, including ‘Webmaster & Search Engines’, ‘Search Engine Optimization History & Theory’, and ‘Running with the Big Dogs/Are You Master of Your Domain?’” said Brett Tabke, WebmasterWorld’s CEO More

Exalead - new advanced search engine

A French company is testing a new global search engine with some very interesting advanced features

AOL widens the search
Web searches are now at the forefront of AOL’s strategy, with the company laying plans to improve and expand its services and move into personalised search.

A few years ago, AOL considered search important but not critical, but the company now sees it as a priority. “Search is a gigantic part of the company’s focus,” said Gerry Campbell, vice-president and general manager of AOL Search. “There’s lots more to come.”

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Online Bidding Aids Businesses’ Search For Insurance Quotes

With the ongoing scandal over alleged insurance bid rigging, electronic bid-tracking systems might be the answer for corporate insurance buyers.
By Charles Babcock

The ongoing scandal over how bids are obtained for corporate insurance couldn’t happen if the bidding were done through a competitive electronic bid-tracking system, suppliers of software for online insurance quoting say.
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has charged that corporate insurance broker Marsh & McLennan Cos. steered customers to insurers who offered Marsh & McLennan the largest contingency fees, not those offering customers the best deal.