Eurekster, a social and personalized search company located in San Francisco, just launched their SearchPublisher platform that provides site publishers with web search unique to their site or group of cites and personalized for each user. Site publishers receive a revenue share for any advertisements selected by its users. SearchPublisher provides sample searches based on recent search activity in your defined activity. If you are too small to create an interesting search sample you can join a SearchParty and receive results from other groups such as the Blogs SearchParty. It's the first interesting search engine I know of with revenue…
BlogPulse profiles are now online as a beta feature. The new tool from Intelliseek displays various information Intelliseek collects about a the top 10,000 blog URLs such as people linking to the blog, sites linked by the blog, most recent blog posts, and common keywords. They also provide a list of 10 blogs that cite similar links and text. My favorite feature is the common keywords identified in recent posts. It would be fun to take a group of keywords and guess the blogger. Tags: blogpulse…
I often receive questions from people about how search engines gather and distribute subscribed search results such as the results provided by Technorati, Feedster, Blogpulse, PubSub, and MSN or Yahoo! Search. It's worth a brief explanation. Caveat lector, I work for Technorati but I will try to deliver an impartial view of the world of ping and search while keeping the post relatively brief. All of the aforementioned sites output search results in the RSS 2.0 feed format. Your feed results will differ between services based on what is indexed, how frequently it is indexed, and what content is made…
eBay has agreed to acquire shopping comparison site Shopping.com for $21 a share in cash, or about $620 million. Shopping.com just went public in October. Bill Cobb, president of eBay North America, told the Wall Street Journal eBay became interested in the comparison shopping sector after they noticed sellers listing on both shopping comparison sites and eBay. I am not sure this acquisition will cause other players such as Yahoo! or Google to acquire a shopping comparison site such as PriceGrabber or NexTag. Epinions was not mentioned in the press release but I am sure eBay would like to provide…
Is it just a coincidence that Google scheduled its "Factory Tour" for press and analysts at the exact same time as Yahoo!'s shareholder meeting? Definitely a strategic PR move. I wonder if anyone will stop covering Yahoo! for the day to attend….
Jim Winstead just announced blo.gs has been sold to an undisclosed buyer and the site will change hands on or after June 13. The new owner will "continue providing the same features that exist now, and will be working on making blo.gs even better." Blo.gs is a pretty large ping beacon, second only to weblogs.com in its level of integration into all the different weblog tools available. My guess is a company wanting to move into the space purchased blo.gs for its ping beacon and its database of posts. There is a small chance the acquirer cares about the site's…
Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna Scott of Nature Publishing Group contributed a long a detailed look at social bookmarking tools in the April 2005 issue of D-Lib Magazine.
According to tonight's Simpsons episode Homer knows his search engines. Marge confronts Homer about his work habits such as Googling his name until lunch and Homer made a note on his Flintstones fun map to use Ask Jeeves to find out more information about Dino.
The New York Times reports that InterActiveCorp is close to an agreement to purchase Ask Jeeves for about $1.9 million: $1.2 billion in cash and $600 million in stock.
James Lamberti, Vice President of Search Solutions at comscore Networks, presented today at the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York. comScore * 18% of searches come from toolbars * 58% of searchers have not installed toolbars * 12% of searchers have uninstalled the toolbar * 20% of the search users constitute 68% of the search volume.
I have been busy this week organizing a Web Spam Squashing Summit to bring together key players involved in publishing and indexing content on the world wide web.
Ask Jeeves officially purchased Bloglines. Mark Fletcher and his team will move to the Ask Jeeves remote office in Los Gatos where Mark will be GM of Bloglines. Teoma will power Bloglines search. Bloglines will gather and monetize users' attention data for contextual advertising. Bloglines launched 18 months ago in June 2003 Official Announcements Ask Jeeves. "Ask Jeeves plans to leverage these technologies across its search and portal brands, and as of today, Bloglines' Web search capability will be powered by Ask Jeeves' search technology." Ask Jeeves Weblog. "There will be no short-term changes to Bloglines that weren't already…
Mary Hodder reports Ask Jeeves is buying Bloglines and Mark Fletcher will be a Jeeves employee on Monday. Is this true? Mark Fletcher is presenting a 20-minute case study this Tuesday on RSS syndication, ad splicing, and blogging at the Media Center event. Perhaps the announcement is meant to coincide with the conference and Mark will use this time to talk about the new Bloglines. Update: Bloglines acquisition is official. Supposedly announced on Friday with an embargo of midnight tonight….
Amazon's A9 search engine added a business directory today with images of the business storefront alongside the address and a clickable telephone number. A search for Starbucks returns Starbucks locations within five miles of your Amazon.com default shipping address by default with thumbnail images for the business location and an overlay of a MapQuest map. You can even browse up or down the block to see surrounding storefronts. Very cool technology! In my sample searches I found Starbucks location in a mall or office park setting had an address that did not match the picture on the listing. Business owners…
The world of feed aggregators has been compared to the HTML Internet of 1994 by Scott Rosenberg and others.. We are starting to consume and make sense of this new data, but there are currently no well-defined methods or implementations of selective consumption. If I publish content it is instantly available to feed aggregators and search companies with no restraints on its usage regardless of licensing and robot preferences. If a Major League Baseball launched a weblog for the private, non-commercial use of their audience there is nothing stopping companies from adding or supplementing the content without the consent of…
PubSub created an events page for the Golden Globe Awards as an extension of their provided sample subscriptions. (via Gary Price) PubSub also has a slick Flash demo of its services linked from the home page. The demo provides usage cases and execution using PubSub's services….
Last week Starbucks announced a new drinkable chocloate beverage called Chantico. Beginning last Saturday consumers could purchase a six-fluid ounce cup, creating many conversations across the blogosphere involving the new drink and the newly formed category of "drinkable chocolate." This new product also provides a perfect opportunity to play the role of the marketing department of a Fortune 500 company tracking the reaction to a new product introduction. How should we measure the reaction to a product that has been on the market only four days? With live search companies of course! I will use search engines Technorati, Feedster, and…
