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For some time the only way to get an RSS feed of google news was through third party scrapers. Well, according to The Google Blog. Now there are two flavors of OFFICIAL news feed from Google.    Send article as PDF   

It caught me by surprise at first. I had done a search and got the following… “We’re sorry… … but we can’t process your request right now. A computer virus or spyware application is sending us automated requests, and it appears that your computer or network has been infected. We’ll restore your access as quickly […]

I guess this is a sign that Google has made it, There is a class action suit against Google. According to Yahoo News (Reuters sourcing), a suit is filed that Google charged in excess of the daily budgets that were set for advertising. Google says it will fight the allegations strongly and there is no […]

News.com (cnet) is reporting that Yahoo has surpassed Google in sheer numbers of items indexed in their search engine. Currently Yahoo has 20 billion documents and images, Google claims 11.3 billion. I can vouch from watching the logs at this site that the Googlebot has been trailing in visits compared to MSN and Yahoo both. […]

I’ve just read a great article by Eric Wolfram on Google Search optimization. Well, it’s probably not a new article it’s been around for a while. I saw it referenced at marketingtom.com from February of 2004. He does have some good ideas though. Among other things the main idea is this…. provide good relevant information […]

A short while back, I compared MSN Virtual Earth and Google Maps, one of the things I noted was that the hybrid feature of MSN’s map was somewhat more complete, however I found a few errors. (The hybrid feature has a satellite image with road names and outlines superimposed over top.) I just noticed that […]

According to the tail end of this article, Google has decided they are not talking to CNET new reporters until July 2006. Yet another good example of why it’s a good thing to have competition in the online search market.    Send article as PDF   

Yahoo! has released an Audio search. It not only allows a search of some of the freely available audio on the net, but according to this article, it searches the catalogs of online music services (such as Rhapsody, emusic, Garageband.com, iTunes.)    Send article as PDF   

This article details an announcement from Yahoo about a new advertising network for small and medium size web publishers. The article compares the service lightly to Googles adsense (more details from Yahoo I’m sure to follow.) Also it mentions that in the 2nd quarter of 2005, Google brought in $630 million in “syndicated search revenue” […]

A while back I did an article on using Google search in some slightly more advanced ways, as well as a link to a site of specific Google searches. I’ve come across something in the Handlers diary at Incidents.org that is worth knowing about. The entry in question details that apparently someone made a BIG […]