Search Engine War: November 2005

Finally Bidding for Content

Well, some good news, Google have finally released content bidding within adwords, we've been asking for it for years - a hot topic 2 years ago at SES. You can now specify bid amounts for content ad placment at 'ad...

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Google Personalisation Features out of BETA

Finally the Google Personalisation features are out of BETA. I guess that means I can finally consign MySERP our own test search personalisation project to a burnt CD on the back of the software shelf. The new Google service provides...

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Google Space

How cool is this - Google is to launch an "internet cafe" style facility at London Heathrow airport, to be called Google Space. The aim of the temporary installation, which will be manned by Google staff, is not just to...

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eurekster swickis

A swicki is new kind of search engine that allows you and your community to control the results and it uses the power of social search to improve them. Providing a cool tagcloud interface and easy website integration visit http://swicki.eurekster.com/...

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START THE WEEK - Guantanamo Bay, the future of books and Google

'Start the Week' BBC Radio 4's best programme presented by Andrew Marr, discusses the cultural agenda in the UK, but also provided me an extremely welcome break from a terrible drive through thick fog on Monday night. Listen to the...

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MSN Search under the hood

64bit neural networks and all that good stuff. It’s not the most recent news on the planet but finally I found some time to watch the Channel9 interview with Andy Edmonds, lead program manager, and Erik Selberg two of the...

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MSN Desktop search for the enterprise

Obviously it seems like Redmond has been listening, and has rolled out a version of their desktop search tool that can be integrated in an enterprise environment. I did an interview of a major IT magazine just a few weeks...

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Google Analytics - no more signups

In what seems to be a bit of a trend Google has yet again stopped signups for a major product just a short time after launch. Google Analytics has experienced extremely strong demand, and as a result, we have temporarily...

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Google launches web analytics

Google has relaunched Urchin as the free Google Analytics suite and integrated it with the Adwords interface. In our opinion it was always predictable that this would happen from the moment they acquired Urchin, however it's going to have an...

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Who is a Google Approved Professional - whoisaGAP

New website whoisaGAP provides a reference point for finding and verifying Google Approved Professionals. ...wouldn't it be worth knowing just who is a Google Approved Professional (GAP) ? We thought so to, but surprisingly finding out who is GAP qualified...

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