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May. 2, 2008 at 8:43am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Releases "Renaissance" Version Of Live Search QnA
The Live Search QnA Blog announced a new release of Live Search QnA. Live Search QnA is Microsoft's question and answer engine, similar to Yahoo Answers. This new release was coined the "Renaissance release," and includes the following enhancements:...
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Feb. 4, 2008 at 11:07am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft's Prize: Big Yahoo CPMs, Largest Display Share
On Friday comScore put out ad publisher site rankings. Unsurprisingly, Yahoo ranked as the top site with just under 19 percent of US online display advertising. MediaPost took this data and further analyzed it, finding that Yahoo enjoys the industry's highest CPM rates at $12.65, more than $4 higher than...
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Jan. 14, 2008 at 8:35am by Barry Schwartz
Professor Bans Google & Wikipedia In Class Room
Lecturer bans students from using Google and Wikipedia from The Argus reports that Professor Tara Brabazon from the University of Brighton has banned the use of Google and Wikipedia in her classroom. She said using Google and Wikipedia doesn't encourage students to use their "own brains" enough. She added: I...
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Jan. 11, 2008 at 9:15am by Barry Schwartz
Get A Free Link From Wired
Some SEOs were saddened when Wikipedia added nofollows to external links. Perhaps they'll perk up to discover that Wired's semi-Wikipedia challenger has no such blocking. NOTE FROM DANNY: We've talked with Wired about the situation, and they are putting a robots.txt block on links coming out of the wiki so...
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Nov. 12, 2007 at 8:20am by Greg Sterling
AOL Buys Q&A Provider Yedda
AOL announced that it has acquired Israeli Q&A provider Yedda for an undisclosed sum. Comparable in many respects to Yahoo Answers, Yedda bills itself as a next generation "semantic" Q&A service. AOL will more broadly integrate the functionality into a number of its sites and properties, as Yahoo has with...
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Aug. 3, 2007 at 8:32am by Danny Sullivan
Answers.com Loses Significant Google Traffic Despite Google Definition Links
Pretty amazing -- Answers.com has issued a press release to warn that its search traffic is down 28 percent due to "a search engine algorithmic adjustment by Google." It raises lots of issues -- how dependent should you be on search traffic; how the "definitions" links that Answers.com has from...
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Jul. 16, 2007 at 5:29pm by Barry Schwartz
Answers.com To Buy Dictionary.com For $100 Million
Answers Corp has reached an agreement to buy Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com from Lexico Publishing Group, LLC for $100 million. These properties attracted 11.5 million unique monthly users in the U.S. during the month of June 2007 according to comScore. They generated revenues of $7 million, EBITDA of $2.9 million...
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Jul. 11, 2007 at 10:16am by Danny Sullivan
Search Spam Fight - Mahalo: 1; Squidoo: 0
Last week, Jason Calacanis of Mahalo renewed his campaign from earlier this year against Squidoo as a source of search spam. This time, he appears to have gotten a result. Despite Squidoo's belated plea that it would clean things up, Google seems to have penalized Squidoo. Below, a timeline...
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Jun. 29, 2007 at 9:58am by Barry Schwartz
Google Launches "Question and Answers" In Russia
Googling Google reports Google Russia has launched a Questions & Answers service in Russia. Although Google closed down Google Answers late last year, this launch of Questions & Answers is a new flavor of such an application. To me, it looks more like a Google Groups approach than anything else....
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Jun. 13, 2007 at 8:49am by Barry Schwartz
Mahalo Greenhouse: Get Paid For Writing Search Results
Jason Calacanis has announced Mahalo Greenhouse, a way for users to get paid for writing their own search results for the Mahalo people-powered search engine. The Greenhouse FAQ gives more details on the program, where if accepted, you can earn $10 to $15 per submission....
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May. 15, 2007 at 9:01am by Greg Sterling
Blinkx And ChaCha Strike Video Search Deal
ChaCha, which combines traditional algorithmic search with human-assisted search, has announced a video distribution deal with Blinkx. ChaCha's new video search will be entirely powered by Blinkx and potentially incorporated into ChaCha's live search sessions. ChaCha uses chat functionality to enable a staff of paid, expert guides to interact with...
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Apr. 19, 2007 at 6:51am by Phil Bradley
QueryCAT - Search FAQs
QueryCat is a search engine that is designed to search frequently asked questions, and they claim to have the largest database of these, by using the Alexa web crawler. They have apparently indexed over 2 million questions and answers (though this information isn't on the website) which is a fair...
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Mar. 27, 2007 at 7:55am by Danny Sullivan
Google's Orkut Gets Polls; Answers Next?
The wisdom of orkut from the Official Google Blog covers how Google's social networking site Orkut now allows people to post polls. No big deal? Perhaps not. But it also makes me wonder if it's a first step toward trying to give Orkut an answer search roll for Google....
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Mar. 8, 2007 at 12:08pm by Chris Sherman
Yahoo Adds Networking Features To Answers
Yahoo has added a social networking feature to its Answers service, allowing you to add Yahoo Answers users to your own personal collection of contacts, providing direct access to the questions they ask, answer, and star on Answers. "This allows you to identify individuals on Answers whose knowledge you value...
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Feb. 16, 2007 at 10:24am by Danny Sullivan
Wikipedia Enters Top Ten Most Visited Sites
Impressive. Scanning the latest top web sites rankings from comScore for January 2007 , Wikipedia sites are highlighted for just entering the top ten most visited. OK, technically -- they're in the top ten for having the most unique visitors. In December 2006, Wikipedia sites were ranked 13th of all...
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Feb. 15, 2007 at 8:45am by Barry Schwartz
Yahoo Launches Suggestion Boards - Digg Community Upset
Yesterday Yahoo announced the launch of their new "suggestion boards." Yahoo says that these new boards enable "you can browse suggestions from other site visitors or post your own. Digg-style voting means we can quickly discover what’s most important to users." In fact, these have been live for a while,...
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Jan. 26, 2007 at 9:11am by Barry Schwartz
Google, YouTube, & Wikipedia All On Top 2006 Brand List
YouTube and Wikipedia storm to top brand ranking by Reuters reports that Google has secures the top spot in the online branding magazine brandchannel.com survey that asks, "Which brand had the most impact on our lives in 2006?". Followed by Google, Apple is second on the brand list. The surprise...
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Jan. 22, 2007 at 9:18am by Barry Schwartz
Wikipedia Nofollows Links Again - Due To SEOs Abusing Wikipedia
Carsten at Search Engine Journal reports that the English Wikipedia has decided to add the nofollow attribute back to the English Wikipedia space. The decision came from the founder, Jimbo Wales, partially, if not completely, based on a discussion of a new SEO contest, where editors are warned of an...
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Jan. 16, 2007 at 5:55pm by Greg Sterling
Vizu Seeking To 'Democratize' Market Research
The Internet is awash in data, so much data in fact that one can find numbers on just about any subject. Yet primary research can be very expensive and cumbersome. There are inexpensive polling tools such as Zoomerang or Survey Monkey, which offer a cost-effective way to survey users. But...
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Jan. 8, 2007 at 5:03pm by Danny Sullivan
Open Letter To Wikipedia Editors: Yes, Matt Cutts Is Notable
Dear Wikipedia Editors: I came back from vacation today to discover that in (some of) your infinite crowd wisdom, apparently the page at Wikipedia about Google's Matt Cutts might get deleted. Wow. It's inept things like this that can instantly reduce any respect I have for Wikipedia that builds up...
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Jan. 8, 2007 at 2:18pm by Danny Sullivan
LinkedIn Answers Launched
Now joining the questions answering game is LinkedIn, with its new LinkedIn Answers service, just two days old. Jason Calacanis pinged me about it just via instant message, saying he loves it. Sequoia Capital is an investor in LinkedIn -- and Jason now works for Sequoia -- so you can...
