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Blog Archives for the week of November 8, 2004

613 - November 12, 2004 - 9.52 AM EST

Google GMail now allows POP3

Google's GMail just added 2 new features in their beta mail feature that includes POP3 support. Also available is email forwarding capability. Downloading the mails only available on GMail website is now possible.

They have made some intelligent options available when you enabled pop support in GMail. You can chose to receive only the new mails to be available for pop download.

Posted on Businessblog™

612 - November 11, 2004 - 11.54 AM EST

Arafat's death boosts Web traffic

In the hours after Yasser Arafat's death on Thursday, the Web reacted with a lot of headlines, speculation and debate.

Arafat's death dominated nearly every major news Web site worldwide, including those of Al-Jazeera, Haaretz, the International Herald Tribune, Le Monde and The New York Times.

Posted on Businessblog™

611 - November 11, 2004 - 8.36 AM EST

There are more than 8 billion pages in Google's index

"Comprehensiveness is not the only important factor in evaluating a search engine, but it's invaluable for queries that only return a few results", says Bill Coughran, V.P. of engineering at Google.

You probably never notice the large number that appears in tiny type at the bottom of the Google home page, but Bill Coughran does.

He says it's a measure of how many pages Google has in its index and gives an indication of how broadly it searches to find the information people are looking for.

Posted on Businessblog™

610 - November 11, 2004 - 6.33 AM EST

Dogpile offers new IntelliFind technology

Dogpile's patented IntelliFind™ technology utilizes sophisticated query intelligence to assess the likely intent behind every entered query, enabling Dogpile to return more relevant results from a wider array of content sources.

IntelliFind builds on Dogpile metasearch's unique ability to search more of the Web by analyzing the likely intent behind every query and intelligently searching the sources most likely to return the best results.

Posted on Businessblog™

609 - November 10, 2004 - 8.41 PM EST

Mozilla won't make a browser for Google

Not only has Google's top executives denied the company is developing a Web browser, but the Mozilla Foundation recently has denied speculation that it is working with the search engine.

In an interview with eWEEK.com ahead of Tuesday's Firefox launch, Mozilla President Mitchell Baker denied rumors that the Mountain View, Calif., foundation was working with Google on a browser based on Firefox or its Gecko rendering engine.

Posted on Businessblog™

608 - November 10, 2004 - 6.15 PM EST

MSN to launch its new search engine tomorrow

MSN will launch its new search engine tomorrow, as it increases its efforts in trying to beat Google in the business of search.

The new search engine will go live on the company's MSN Web site, a representative for the company said. The software giant has made clear its plans to conquer the lucrative search market, teasing industry watchers with Web and desktop search previews.

In June, Microsoft upgraded its MSN Search site and it has been posting new search technology prototypes at its testing site. Meanwhile, company executives have stated their intentions to take Google to the mat.

Posted on Businessblog™

607 - November 10, 2004 - 10.07 AM EST

27 percent of online searching is for local listings

Paid Inclusion

Bizrate and the Kelsey Group studied nearly 4,000 US consumers and found that 27 percent of Internet searching is for local listings.

Ranking types of search sites based on familiarity, frequency of use, and loyalty, the study determined that Internet mapping sites are the most popular, followed by general search engines and Internet Yellow Pages. Kelsey and BizRate surveyed 3,887 consumers whose average age was 44. Roughly 79% of respondents had been online for at least five years and 72% had high-speed Internet connectivity.

Posted on Businessblog™

606 - November 9, 2004 - 3.47 PM EST

A new meta search engine

Netherlands based 4C Software launched a new meta search engine called DonBusca.

A meta search engine gives users the ability to simultaneously search multiple search engines from one interface. Meta search engines benefit users by saving them time and effort from having to individually visit multiple search engines in order to find the desired result.

Posted on Businessblog™

605 - November 9, 2004 - 11.44 AM EST

More criticism on Google's news tool

Google's credibility for its news tool came under fire again, following its use of press releases from far-right UK political group the British National Party.

Infomercials

Web users can sign up to receive Google news alerts on specialist subjects. The aggregator scans around 4,500 sites for selected keywords, and emails relevant stories to the user. But the inclusion of press releases has been criticised by many journalists, who argue that such material is designed to inform a news story and should not be interpreted as news itself.

Posted on Businessblog™

604 - November 9, 2004 - 11.03 AM EST

An open source developer's search engine

Koders launches a beta search engine specifically targeting open source developers and programmers. The new Koders search engine indexes open source code spanning numerous licenses and in a variety of many programming languages.

The verticalization of search has been coming for some time with talk of all manner of specialized search engines that are either free or pay to play.

Posted on Businessblog™

603 - November 8, 2004 - 3.19 PM EST

Pheedo launches ad management tool

Blog and RSS feed ad firm Pheedo launches an ad management tool that will let publishers insert paid ads into their RSS or Atom content feeds, and then track the resulting activity.

Posted on Businessblog™

Domain names

602 - November 8, 2004 - 2.00 PM EST

Spammers convicted to nine years in prison

I sure hope we will see more and more of this!

The first two spammers ever to be convicted of a felony for sending fraudulent and spam e-mail have just been convicted to nine years in jail. Jeremy Jaynes and Jessica DeGroot, a brother and sister team, were convicted in a Virginia court Wednesday of sending AOL users millions of unsolicited commercial e-mail messages while evading AOL’s filters.

DMNews report that jurors recommended that Jaynes receive nine years in prison and fined DeGroot $7,500. DeGroot was convicted because prosecutors proved the domain names used for sending the spam had been purchased on her credit card. A third defendant, Richard Rutkowski, was acquitted of similar charges. Formal sentencing has been set for February next year.

Posted on Businessblog™

601 - November 8, 2004 - 9.10 AM EST

FyberSearch acquires RSS feed search engine

FyberSearch has acquired FeedPlex, in hopes of integrating it to its portfolio of search tools.

FeedPlex is a feed search engine that provides Internet users the ability to find data in XML/RSS format on the web.

“We are very happy to announce this acquisition, and to have such a diligent search engine ‘make something out of it’,” said Sid Yadav, former CEO and co-founder of FeedPlex.

Posted on Businessblog™

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