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Archive for June 2005

June 24th, 2005

Yahoo’s Adsense Competitor is Behavioral, Not Contextual

Nick over on Threadwatch writes that Yahoo’s proposed Adsense competitor is testing behavioural advertising, not contextual and writes that “From what you can read, i’d say this could be a major killer app for Yahoo!” The example sites given are Dogster and Catster.
I’d welcome some comments from readers on this one: what behavioural ads did […]

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June 24th, 2005

gBay?

The nets buzzing about the move of Louis Monier, ebay’s director of advanced technology group, to Google with some suggestions that Google might be looking to set up an eBay rival.
Others say he’s off to work for Google’s shopping portal Froggle.
I ask: if Sergey Brin craps in the woods does that means that […]

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June 23rd, 2005

Microsoft setting up lifestyle blog network

Looks like Microsoft is getting into the blog content creation game with news that MSN is advertising for blog editors for a number of lifestyle related blogs.
More details at the Blog Herald.

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June 23rd, 2005

Google not launching a Paypal type service - Merchant facilities instead?

Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has confirmed that Google is going into the internet payments business but has ruled out directly challenging Paypal, stating that they won’t be doing person to person tranactions.
Question is: if Google is going into some sort of payments business and it isn’t Paypal-esque then what in the world is […]

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June 23rd, 2005

Yahoo Closes Chat Rooms Over Sex Content

AP reports that Yahoo! has reacted to angry protests from several of its top sponsors and has pulled the plug on perhaps hundreds of chat rooms operating on its site after a media report revealed that some of the rooms were used to promote sex with minors.
Companies such as PepsiCo Inc., State Farm Insurance and […]

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June 23rd, 2005

Answers.com and IceRocket team up for Blog Search

Growing support network Answers.com and search engine IceRocket.com have to teamed up to in a traffic swapping exercise that will see IceRocket.com visitors being directed to Answers.com for reference content, and Answers.com sending blog search traffic to IceRocket.
“IceRocket takes a novel approach to search, providing options for a host of different types of searches,” said […]

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June 23rd, 2005

AOL.com Beta Site Unveiled

America Online has beta launched its new AOL.com portal marking its first major step from paid-private content to public portal player.
My initial thoughts: bubbles, bubbles, bubbles…but done quite tastefully. They are still using Google for search though, and some of the content cant be accessed using Firefox.
The beta site can be accessed via beta.aol.com.

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June 21st, 2005

Mamma.com launches Health Search Site Beta

Search minnow Mamma, the big on name but not very big on results search company that has somehow managed to go on, has announced th the first installment of several deep web search verticals for its metasearch engine. The deep web search is powered by Mamma.com’s search engine technology, and CloserLook Search Services, Inc develops […]

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June 21st, 2005

Yahoo! Launching New Search Index

Yahoo is doing some serious work on their search results with the announcement on the Yahoo! search blog:
“We will be making changes to the index tonight so you should be seeing more of your pages in the index as well as some fluctuations in the rankings of results from previous searches.”
To early yet to assess […]

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June 21st, 2005

Microsoft launches MSN Local Search

Microsoft has unveiled a rival in the localized search market with MSN Local Search.
MSN Local Search delivers listings of local sites and a map that includes virtual pushpins indicating each for each location. At the time of writing the service was live and working, displaying maps for searches such as “Pizza in New York”
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