Second-tier search engine IceRocket added a blog searching feature that reads through the web diaries' syndicated text feeds to separate out blog content from other search listings. The service provides results that would otherwise only be had at one of...
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eMarketer stuck its neck out and predicted 28 percent growth in this quarter's online retail sales, excluding travel and auction sites. The research firm, analyzing estimates from the government and private firms, pegged online sales for Q4 at $22.3 billion,...
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DoubleClick's Abacus division released a study on catalogs showing that people are increasingly turning to the web to make their catalog purchases. Already accounting for 30 percent of transactions in 2003, Abacus expects this year to see 36 percent web...
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Social network ZeroDegrees is publishing versions of user profiles linked together in a way designed to provide search engines with highly reliable, relevant relationship information. ZeroDegrees users may find their linked homepages moving higher up among search engine results. The...
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Google launched a Short Message Service SMS application allowing mobile phone users to get instant access to Google's local search functions. But it expects a lot out of phone users, requiring them to learn a new syntax ("46645 pizza 94043,"...
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SearchEngineLowdown reports on the buzz around the new SEMPO campaign on search engine-related bulletin boards. The search engine trade group's new ad campaign appeared to link viewers to a page that allowed them to search only a subset of SEMPO...
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The New York Times reports that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lodged the first case against a spyware firm, asking for a temporary restraining order against the two companies Seismic Entertainment Productions and Smartbot.Net as well as their owner, Sanford...
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PaidContent points to reports (and a screenshot) that AOL is testing its own browser, one that has many of the new features that the dead-in-the-water-for-two-years Internet Explorer does not. Since Microsoft won the browser war several years ago, garnering an...
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JibJab, the production company that brought online political satire to the general public with its last presidential race parody, launched a new installment, this time at the behest of Jay Leno's Tonight Show. The brief viral video makes fun of...
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They may wear very, very serious facial expressions and talk about methodologies and data integrity, but the way that syndicated research companies measure site traffic is seriously flawed. Wired reports that comScore and Nielsen, using roughly the same sort of...
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