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Archive for September 2005

September 26th, 2005

MSN to Debut AdCenter Today

Earlier today, Aaron posted about this article, which claims that Microsoft is going to debut it’s paid ad service today.
Microsoft will unveil on Monday its own system for selling Web advertising as it struggles to compete with Google and Yahoo in the expanding Web search business. The system, to be used by MSN, is meant […]

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September 24th, 2005

Google’s ‘Remove Results’ Reviewed

Matt Cutts discusses on his blog a recent user-interface experiment on Google that adds the ability to remove results.
To activate this feature:
Go sign up for My Search History/Personalized Search. You don’t have to store your searches, but you will need a Google Account.
Once activated, you’ll see the following ‘Remove Results’ link:

If you choose to really […]

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September 23rd, 2005

AOL.com Portal Leaves Beta

After 3 months of beta, AOL’s new portal is officially released.
The new portal is pretty nice, very clean look. It features tabbed searching as well as links to many of AOL’s different services.
Nicely done.
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September 23rd, 2005

Yahoo ‘Quick Links’ Unveils

Yahoo! is introducing this week a couple of new search features, features which aim at make search easier and more ‘user-friendly’.
The first feature is call ‘Quick Links’. This feature provides links to related maps, company’s address, catalog, certain products offered, etc. For example, when searching for ‘Target‘ the links provided include ‘Store Locator - Gift […]

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September 23rd, 2005

AOL is off the Market

For the past week there have been several rumors claiming that AOL’s time is up and that it is up for sale. MSN and Google were also mentioned as potential buyers.
These rumors have come to an end today when
Josh Berger, the managing director of Warner Bros Entertainment UK, has warned against his company selling […]

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September 23rd, 2005

Quick Introduction

Hello and welcome back to Search Engine Herald. My name is Gilad Gafni and I will be taking over the editor’s position here.
As some of you may know, with the recent changes at Weblog Empire and forming of the new b5madia, Duncan had decided to look for a new editor for this site, someone that […]

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September 15th, 2005

Google launches blog search

Blog Herald coverage here and here.

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September 9th, 2005

Microsoft Phishing Filter & Games Add-ins

The MSN Toolbar team have announced two plugins for the MSN Toolbar, the “Microsoft Phishing Filter Add-in” and the the “MSN Games Add-in”.
More details here.

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September 9th, 2005

Vint Cerf joins Google

Google Inc. has announced that it hired Vinton (Vint) Cerf, the longtime technologist who is widely known as a “founding father” of the Internet, as Chief Internet Evangelist.
“Vint Cerf is clearly one of the great technology leaders of our time,” said Google CEO Eric Schmidt of Cerf, who co-designed the TCP/IP protocols that were […]

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September 9th, 2005

Google Settles With Geico

Geico and Google has finally settled the trademark infringement suit thats been carrying on since May of 2004.

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