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There are several venues for meeting fellow search engine enthusiasts and marketers: Danny Sullivans SMX, Search Engine Strategies, the Webmaster World conference and the PPC Summit. Here are the upcoming events.
» Pandia Search Engine News Wrap-up June 28
Its Sunday and Pandia gives you the most important search engine news headlines of the week.
» The status and challenges of multi media search engine technology
At the end of two and a half years, the EU project CHORUS concluded its work at a conference in Brussels recently. The conference focused on status and challenges of multi media search engine technology, but also addressed the challenges, gaps, commonalities, difficulties, targeted/expected impacts and success criteria related to search initiatives.
» KPMRS helps you track your search engine rankings
Pandia discusses the role of search engine rankings in online marketing and reviews a new tool that helps you keep track of your own results.
» Pandia Search Engine News Wrap-up June 21
Here are some of the search engine news articles we found interesting this week:
China to Google: No porn, or else
Google has acknowledged that the Chinese government asked it to disable a search feature with the goal of censoring pornography (Cnet June 19 2009)
Google’s censorship struggles continue in China
On June 4, 2009, Google.cn blocked all searches [...]
» Ask.com and Ask Jeeves launch database of 300 million answers and questions
Ask and Ask Jeeves goes back to basics and launches an enlarged question and answer database that allows for natural language search queries.
» Social networking for Internet marketers
PickySite is a brand new social networking site for webmasters, internet marketers, web designers, web developers, and SEO experts. Along with PickySite’s editors, they write group and individual blogs and communicate with other members sharing the same goals.
How it works
On PickySite you can start your own personal group, or corporate blog and share information, links, [...]
» Protesting Iranians use search engine Yauba to ensure privacy
t is widely known that dissidents in China have had their blogs deleted and in at least one case a major search engine (Yahoo) have contributed to the arrest of a Chinese journalist. This, along with the Iranian regime’s poor track record when it comes to human rights is why many Iranian protesters use the only search engine that guarantees search privacy.
» Better search for life science, health science and chemistry at Science Direct
Elsevier and NextBio recently signed a partnership to enrich ScienceDirect content. The hope is that this will accelerate life science, health science and chemistry research.
NextBio provides a platform that enables life science researchers to search, discover, and share knowledge within public and proprietary data. Information from NextBio will now be used to enrich the content of ScienceDirect.
Through this agreement NextBio’s ontology-based semantic tools and a compilation of high quality sources of public data will be integrated on ScienceDirect.
» Separate shopping sites from info sites in your search results
If you search the web for information on almost any subject, your search results on Yahoo and Google will be littered with shopping info. Start-up search engine Duck Duck Go now separates shopping sites from information sites in your search results.
After entering a search, you click one of three new search buttons. These buttons produce normal results, mostly info sites, or mostly shopping sites respectively.
This solves a common problem, as many people have trouble finding real information about topics that have lots of shopping results. So instead of struggling to come up with a search phrase that will produce the right results, you just choose the right button.
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