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January 23, 2003

Careerbuilder choose FAST over Google for search technology. "chief technology officer Eric Presley says he wanted a search technology that would automatically return matches from pay-for-position clients rather than only returning results based on traditional search-term relevancy. Fast met Presley's requirements and offered speed far beyond what CareerBuilder had experienced, making it unnecessary to cache pages. "We can peak at up to 130 to 140 searches per second".

Where next for RSS? It's a great idea, just needs a friendly face and tight browser integration.

Innovative search service Kartoo teams up with Overture. "Under this agreement, Overture’s Pay-For-Performance search listings are displayed on the left hand side of kartoo.com search results page".

Better Bayesian filtering for e-mail spam. Perhaps more sophisticated algos are the answer?

And finally, we're stealing this one from Jeffrey Zeldman:

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” — ML King

January 22, 2003

Teoma 2.0 has launched. Claims "Improved Relevance, New Search Tools and Advanced Functionalities".

This thread looks at the PPC scene in Europe.

We had wanted to interview FAST, but unfortunately our interview requests have met with auto-responses. If any FAST people are reading this, and you'd like to join Google and Inktomi in the interview chair, please get in touch.

And finally, ingenious toilet user interface design.

January 21, 2003

Googlert is a Google API query tool. You can use it to keep track of all sorts of things ;)

A tech commentator questions why Google don't charge searchers for searching. Erm...perhaps the writer should consider how important market share is to a company that operates in a competitive space with a fairly low barrier to entry.

And finally, Iconwar.

January 20, 2003

The State Of Search Engine Marketing, 2003. We look back at some of our interviews in 2002, and draw a few conclusions.

"I added 1000's of new subscribers, had bumper sales this month and a right SEM laugh". Mike Grehan had a largely positive experience after his encounter with "the first chat-show host of blog". Death threats go with the territory, especially when you dare to mention cloaki...(ducks).

New additional to Google home page: Google Tour.

Yahoo! and ACNielsen Release Seventh Quarterly Wave of Internet Confidence Index. Projected spending for Q1 2003 remains strong .

Christina Buu-Hoan, who we linked to last week, sent us a nice thank-you note. Christina has had a lot of feedback about her article, some of which she has published on her site (see reader comments at the bottom of her artcle).

Chris Ridings laments the fact that "a dog ate our interview" last week. There's still some very interesting people we have lined up - be sure to keep your dial pointing to the searchengineblog.com internet chat show. Perhaps "we" should change our name to Jerry. Or Oprah.

And finally, Google sees all. Either Bush is exhibiting "genuine leadership" or the PR machine has kicked into overdrive.