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Archive for December 2005

December 15th, 2005

Yahoo Top Searches for 2005

The top searches for 2005 is released, and whose on top?

For our non-us readers, here’s some search stats from around the world: Korea, Germany, Italy, Australia, Canada and France!

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December 15th, 2005

Yahoo! Weather Report

Yahoo has a weather report for today (last night),
We will be making changes to the index tonight. You should see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index. This update will be completed tomorrow (Thursday).
I cannot see changes with ranking of my own sites, do […]

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December 15th, 2005

Just Launched: Google Music Search

Google has added today (Thur) some music to the mix. The new search feature would add “additional information” to search results when search for artists / bands is made (Example: britney or britney music).
AP reports:
Among other things, Google’s music section will provide lists of all the songs recorded on a specific album and also will […]

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December 14th, 2005

Google TV Ads

Apparently, Google is starting a TV ad campaign, DPNeal has a copy of it.
[Found via Outer-Court]

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December 13th, 2005

What Do You Tell Your GMail?

If you’re one of those conspiracy theorists, you would love this piece, it seems real to me, and if it is, those who use Gmail may want to re-consider their email provider but the owner of this image claims that gmail read his email, processed it and offered him a link to track his UPS […]

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December 13th, 2005

Want Some Peppermint for Christmas?

Google has it, just search for any Christmas related terms and get some…
Update: Okay, well, not every term. Santa Claus doesn’t get any…

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December 13th, 2005

Google Adwords With New Features

Google Adwords has added a couple of new features over the weekend:
First, they added another variable to the already unknown Quality Score algo: Landing Pages.
In August, we introduced the Quality Score along with the launch of quality-based minimum bids, letting you know that we evaluate many factors, such as your ad text and clickthrough rate […]

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December 12th, 2005

Yahoo!, The Social Kingdom

Yahoo has been working hard to expand their market share. A while back they purchased the popular photo-sharing service flickr and turned it to extra-popular. This time they went for the ‘tag king’ Del.icio.us, a leader in social bookmarking whose services they tried to copy with their My Web2.0.
Official announcements were posted on the Yahoo! […]

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December 8th, 2005

Kanoodle Will Pay You To Spread Their Cookies

A couple of days back, while looking at the different categories of the site, I saw Kanoodle and could not remember how long it has been since the last time I wrote about them. In fact, I do not believe I’ve seen one piece of news about Kanoodle since I started reporting on this site.
Anyways, […]

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December 8th, 2005

Yahoo Wants Your Unanswered Questions

To be honest, I do not use Yahoo as much as I should be (besides email). I like to make fun of Google and their actions at [often] times, but when it comes down to search Google is my first choice (Yahoo is in the respectful 2nd place).
Yahoo has a post written today about their […]

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