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• Yellow Pages Publisher Buys Business.com For $350 Million

  Published: July 26, 2007, 9:20 am

  Tags: Search Engines B2b Engines

  RH Donnelley, which acquired SEM firm LocalLaunch in 2006 and owns the local search/online yellow pages site DexKnows, has announced the acquisition of Business.com and its related properties for $350 million. Click to continue reading...

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• Google & Other Search Apps For The iPhone

  Published: July 24, 2007, 10:10 am

  Tags: Search Engines Mobile Search Engines

  It has been almost two weeks since I got my iPhone and I have been playing with it for a while now. I wanted to share with you the various cool search applications I use on my iPhone, including Google's AJAX iPhone search. Click to continue reading...

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• Superpages Adds Video To Local Search Site

  Published: July 24, 2007, 9:51 am

  Tags: Search Engines Maps Amp Local Search Engines

  the second major local search destination to add video advertising after Citysearch did so recently (in partnership with TurnHere). Other local search and yellow pages sites with video include DexKnows (published by RH Donnelley), Smalltown, SavoyNewYork and MojoPages. And there are an increasing number of travel sites that have video as

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• Local Shopping Site Krillion Expands Inventory

  Published: July 23, 2007, 9:26 am

  Tags: Search Engines Maps Amp Local Search Engines

  Development for Yahoo Search. While the Internet continues to rapidly expand its influence over consumer purchase behavior, the overwhelming majority of transactions are made in local stores. Sound like a contradiction? It's not. Click to continue reading...

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• Search Wikia Takes Steps To Crawl

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:30 pm

  Tags: Search Engines Search Wikia

  developing the open source search engine Search Wikia, has acquired Grub, a distributed crawler platform, from LookSmart. Distributed crawler? Crawlers are software programs used by search engines to roam the web to discover pages that are then downloaded and indexed for searching. The crawlers operated by the major search engines are highly

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• Five Practical Reasons for Fighting Plagiarism

  Published: July 25, 2007, 12:43 pm

  Tags: Prevention, Products, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Creative Commons, Google, Marketing, Plagiarism, Reuptation, Scraping, Search Engines, Seo

  from not taking action. Search Engine Penalties: Though disagreements remain about the duplicate content penalty (possible nsfw) as it pertains to scraping, one penalty is certain, increased competition. Even if there is no algorithmic “penalty” placed on your site, the plagiarists will still show up for in your keyword results.

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• Search: Yahoo adds a travel shortcut

  Published: July 29, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Search, Search Engines, Search Techniques, Travel, Yahoo

  shortcut to their arsenal of search tweaks. Just type in your destination to the Yahoo search bar, and you'll get hotels, restaurants, flight information, Flickr slideshows, and more. Probably my favorite aspect of this new search shortcut is the Things to Do addition. For instance, my above search for Paris, France yielded not only the typical

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• What is a Search Engine - Now and Future

  Published: July 30, 2007, 7:39 pm

  Tags: Alt Search Engines

  network blog AltSearchEngines has launched a fascinating series today. It's a 3-part series attempting to define what is a search engine, circa 2007 and also what a search engine might look like in the future. The first part, entitled What is a Search Engine?, is written by Nitin Karandikar. Part II is entitled What is Not a Search

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• In Brief: The folks behind Wikipedia are looking to ...

  Published: July 31, 2007, 8:00 am

  Tags: David Vs Goliath Or Goliath Vs Bigger Goliath, Google, Search Engines, Wikipedia

  The folks behind Wikipedia are looking to put together a web search tool to rival Google. The search engine will be fueled by a community of editors much like Wikipedia. Will the "democratization of information" strategies that worked so well with Wikipedia translate to the web? Looks like we'll find out.

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• Wiki Search Takes On Big Dogs

  Published: July 31, 2007, 10:08 am

  Tags: News, Google, Search Engines, Wikia, Wikipedia, Yahoo

  his own community-developed search service. Just this past week, Whales' commercial startup, named Wikia acquired a company walled Grub. Grub is a web crawler that will allow Wikia to find and index websites. In the tradition of his original project, Wikia, which will launch towards the end of this year, will integrate algorithms and

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• Top 100 Alt Search Engines, August 2007

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:03 pm

  Tags: Alt Search Engines

  network blog AltSearchEngines has just published the August Top 100 Alt Search Engine list. Here is the excel spreadsheet; the full list is on ASE. This week AltSearchEngines also published a 3 part series defining a) What is a Search Engine? (an article by Nitin Karandikar), b) What is Not a Search Engine? (by Kaila Colbin) and

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• LookSmart's CEO, David Hills, Resigns

  Published: August 2, 2007, 8:52 am

  Tags: Search Engines Other Search Engines

  A recent SEC filing shows that LookSmart's CEO, David Hills, has announced his resignation on July 26th to be effective as of yesterday. LookSmart swiftly appointed Edward F. West, the current Chair of the Board of Directors, as the stand in CEO for LookSmart. Click to continue reading...

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• Local Search Gaining, Driving Offline Transactions

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:48 am

  Tags: Search Engines Maps Amp Local Search Engines

  days after Yahoo released research that showed how the Internet is driving offline retail transactions in increasing numbers, ad agency TMP Directional Media conducted an online survey with comScore that showed a parallel phenomenon in the service sector. The survey, which had 3,000 respondents, sought to capture consumer attitudes and behavior

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• In Brief: Google has added sticky search results by ...

  Published: August 3, 2007, 10:20 am

  Tags: Bookmarking, Bookmarks, Search, Search Engines

  Google has added sticky search results by asking users to suggest a better page for some queries, according to Google Operating System. Any time you add a URL, it will appear on top of your results on subsequent searches. Could this be a small reaction to news earlier this week that Wikipedia is planning an editor driven search?

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• Search Wikia Gets Open Source Categorization Software

  Published: August 3, 2007, 2:11 pm

  Tags: Search Engines Search Wikia

  Hot on the heels of last week's acquisition of the Grub open source crawler technology, Wikia announced today that Intellisophic has agreed to make its categorization software available via open source in conjunction with the Search Wikia project. From the press release: Click to continue reading...

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