The Curious Engineer

John Battelle's Search Blog

2003–2004

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December 2004

  1. Tech Review: New Form of Advertising
  2. A Look Ahead
  3. A Look Back
  4. “We’ll figure out how to monetize it later”
  5. Yahoo Releases Update to Index
  6. The End of Friends
  7. Pell, Geico, and Paid Search
  8. Google Desktop Security: Welcome to the Software Biz
  9. Cindy – An Appreciation
  10. Comment Spam and Search
  11. WayBack Machine
  12. Froogle’s Product Reviews
  13. Job Search, Indeed
  14. On Desktop Search
  15. Get Yer Traffic Reports Here…
  16. Yahoo Video Search, Second Day
  17. Search Paper Fun: Most Cited
  18. Yahoo Video Search
  19. Google Wins Key Portion of Geico Case
  20. A Blitzkrieg of Zeitgiestian Data
  21. Rosenberg Chimes In
  22. Ferguson on Google: Platform? Yes. Single Platform? No.
  23. Print Implications: Google As Builder
  24. Ask Jeeves: Do We Need Another Desktop Search?
  25. Google Library: Talk About a Long Tail…
  26. Levy: Gates On the Search Rampage
  27. Google To Launch Major Pilot Program with Harvard, Stanford, U Mich, Others
  28. The Market At Work…
  29. It’s Only Me, Dave Pell
  30. MSFT Announces Desktop Search, Ask Will Make It a Trifecta
  31. Google TM Trial Begins Today
  32. PubSub InfoP*rn
  33. TiVo It
  34. IBM Searching for Profit
  35. Google Sued Over Scholar
  36. More On Google, Yahoo, Media, Technology
  37. Pell On Google Suggest: Po = Poetry?
  38. And Then Google Announces “Google Suggest….”
  39. Friday Sketching: Tangential Ramblings on the Roles of Google and Yahoo in Search, Media and Beyond
  40. Update to Yahoo Desktop Search…
  41. Yahoo Desktop Search to Launch
  42. Le Blog
  43. I Love….Jesus!
  44. Syndicate IQ
  45. Google Datacenter
  46. Yahoo Local: Who Needs the Yellow Pages?
  47. Social Search
  48. I Got A Dog or Two In This Fight…
  49. Majestic on GOOG: Brother, Can You Share a Dime?
  50. New: AdMarketplace
  51. Next Up For AdSense: Dancing Monkeys
  52. Free Prize Inside (Sometimes)
  53. Firefox Users: Less Ad Clicks
  54. Joining the Architecture of Participation Party
  55. Bharat On Google News Bias
  56. CitySearch Pushes Pay-Per-Call Forward
  57. We Test. No We Don’t!
  58. Longhand Search
  59. GoogleScoop
  60. What Can One Man Learn in Five Years?
  61. Fortune on GOOG
  62. It’s All About Citation
  63. Sony TV: Missing the Point
  64. Failure Becomes a Manageable Event
  65. New Google Groups
  66. Google News Top Story: Bush Arrested
  67. Census: 2003 A Good Year for Movies, Music Even
  68. Several Worth Reviewing…
  69. AOL (Netscape) Tosses Hat Back In Browser Ring
  70. Overture Apparently Settles with Geico
  71. Google Making Marketing Push?

November 2004

  1. $55 a day?
  2. Linden Keeps On Truckin’
  3. eBay Pulse
  4. News: Google Motion of Summary Judgment Denied in Geico Case
  5. Stefanie on Video Search
  6. Google Desktop: Too Good For Its Own Good?
  7. Google News And China: More Issues
  8. More AdWords Trademark Suits
  9. Want Music? Go Fish
  10. Xmas Bells and Whistles
  11. EPIC: A Media Future Fantasy
  12. Google Saves The Bubble Fund
  13. Watch This Space
  14. Speaking of Biz Dev…
  15. Babelplex: Search in Two Languages
  16. As Search History Develops, an Implication or Two
  17. First Reports on Google Desktop Downloads
  18. When You Search For Stocks On Google…
  19. Personal Attacks Make Google News
  20. Short Week
  21. Findory Getting More Personal
  22. Grokking Wondir
  23. Google Takes Another Step Toward Becoming Development Environment
  24. Move Over Big G…Here Comes….
  25. PubSub, Blog Search Engine, Relaunched
  26. The Law Embraces the Internet Archive
  27. Orkut Media?
  28. Google Guidance? Some Notes on the 10-Q
  29. MSFT: Thank You, May I Have Another…
  30. Tivo, Don’t Forsake Us…
  31. Google Scholar Launches: A Hint of Things to Come?
  32. RealNames Resurfaces
  33. Dinosaur Disney Threatens to Sue Over Linking
  34. Would you pay $999.99 For One Click?
  35. News: Overture Testing Ads Rolled Into RSS
  36. Jobs In Search
  37. Loads O Search
  38. Perks at Work
  39. First Wave of GOOG Lockups Expire Today
  40. Safa’s First Note on MSN Search: New Engine, Now Where’s the Car?
  41. Blinkx 2.0 Launches
  42. Audience Match
  43. Want to See Leaked Info on MSFT Desktop Search Tool?
  44. CBSMW Sold to Dow Jones
  45. Weekend Reading
  46. Will Google Ban Trade in Trademarks?
  47. AOL Goes For Travel
  48. Google Images: A Clever Fix
  49. Fiddling with Results?
  50. PhotoRank?
  51. Microsoft Launches Search Beta: Platform Ho!
  52. 8 Billion
  53. Loads O News
  54. Can We Please Bury the Netscape Metaphor?
  55. Google Looks to Its Resellers
  56. MSFT Search to Debut This Week
  57. The Transparent (Shopping) Society
  58. You Are What You Index
  59. We Will Never Surrender
  60. Feedburner, More Advertising Feedback
  61. Site Update, Six Apart News
  62. Another Hurricane A-Comin’?
  63. Search Engines and Disclosing Advertising
  64. Fathom: Keyword Prices Keep Going Up
  65. Apple Talks Search
  66. Google Image Search: Updated Only Twice a Year?

October 2004

  1. Searchblog Takes a Vacation
  2. Joho Sez: Could Be a World Browser
  3. JotSpot Finds A Need
  4. Ram Shriram on Google, Mistakes
  5. One Man Decides To Forego The Google Gauntlet
  6. Yang on Search
  7. Search For Contributors In Your (Or Whoever’s) Neighborhood
  8. It’s Hard to Sell Ads to Plumbers
  9. Biz 2 Column: Dave Dorman
  10. KeyGoog Update: Hanke speaks
  11. Yahoo Mobilizes
  12. Google Buys Keyhhole: Mapping Ho
  13. Gary Finds MSN Interface
  14. Meeker on Digital World: Blogs, Yahoo Are Winners
  15. The Rule of Ten
  16. Is The Google IPO Rubbing Off?
  17. The GooBrowser Won’t Die
  18. Yahacrobat
  19. Hey Yahoo: Ours Is Bigger
  20. Playing With Feedburner
  21. MSFT: Oh No, You Don’t…
  22. Friday Sketching: TV and Search Merge
  23. Google Opens In MSFT Backyard
  24. GOOG: Up 24 points and Rising
  25. Yahoo Buys Stata
  26. GOOG Earnings
  27. All Local Is Search
  28. Yahoo Image Search Upgrades
  29. Pattern Recognition
  30. Point-To TV
  31. Implications…
  32. Happy Anniversary To Searchblog
  33. Chronicle Scoop: Google Forecast Leak
  34. Schroeder on Local
  35. WSJ Responds
  36. Kottke Counts Ads: The Revolution Will Be Advertised
  37. Speculation on What’s Next For Google Desktop
  38. How Do You “Celebrate” Firefox? Run An Ad in The New York Times
  39. Hambrecht: Big Banks Low-Balled Google IPO
  40. The More You Search, The More You Buy
  41. Neat: IM Interview
  42. Always Read Markoff Closely
  43. Google Code Jam Winners
  44. Friday InfoPorn
  45. Google’s IM Client
  46. AOL Says: We Play Too
  47. Desktop Search: More and more….
  48. News: Google Drops The Other Shoe – Google Desktop Search Launches
  49. The Browser Wars: Looking at the Wrong Thing
  50. Slate (Well, Steven Johnson) Says: Wise Up, Candidates
  51. A Peek at What’s Coming from MSFT Search Labs
  52. Still Catching Up…
  53. Comments Now Have Permalinks
  54. Google’s Web 2 Demo and the UI Plunge
  55. Jeremy Is Back At It…
  56. Neat
  57. From Pull to Point: How to Save The Economist and The Journal from Irrelevance
  58. At Least They Didn’t Move to the Valley
  59. Some Caution In Web 2.0
  60. But before I drift off to sleep…
  61. Posting to Resume…Tomorrow!
  62. B 2.0 Column: Erik Blachford, CEO of IAC Travel
  63. Google Gets Mobile, Launches “Google SMS”
  64. Thanks, Feedster!
  65. Open Thread
  66. Web 2.0 Day One
  67. Kanoodle Throws Hat Into AdSense Ring
  68. News: Yahoo Bows New Personalized Search
  69. A Googler, Nee PyraHead, Leaves
  70. Searchblog: Tumbleweeds Ho
  71. Yahoo Local Is Live
  72. Good(man) Point
  73. The MS Hegemony Erodes?
  74. Om Finds Another Yahoo/Google Patent?
  75. More News of Note

September 2004

  1. The Kleptones Storm the Web
  2. News of Note
  3. Clusty – I Hear It’s Great, But I Can’t Get It to Load….
  4. Yahoo in 1995
  5. Patriot Act Update: Portions Ruled Unconstitutional
  6. Put On Yer Search Hat
  7. Google Stats
  8. Moving Along to Market Banker
  9. If You Lived Through the Last Bubble….
  10. Even Non Geeks Might Enjoy…
  11. Watch This Space
  12. Google Clarifies On China and News
  13. Bloglines Bows Web Services, Addresses RSS B’width Issue
  14. The Analysts on GOOG
  15. My Yahoo: Big RSS Embrace
  16. Search Volume by Type of User
  17. Fathoming Context: Much More to Come
  18. Short Sellers And The Net
  19. Comcast Signals It’s Hip to the VOI Threat
  20. Google News And China
  21. Your Own Private Island
  22. Light Day Ahead
  23. Google News V. Yahoo News
  24. Joho Does WEF
  25. Furl Sold to Looksmart
  26. Ramesh Jain: The Search Steering Wheel
  27. In No Official Capacity…
  28. Google Going More Transparent
  29. I’m Being Followed By A Goon Shadow, Goon Shadow Goon Shadow…
  30. Web 2.0 Draws Near
  31. InfoWorld Bows Product Guide, Partnerships
  32. News: Jeeves Stretches Out, Gets Personal
  33. He Won’t Go
  34. Raymie Stata on Search
  35. Tim Berners Lee Interviewed
  36. YAAN: Yet Another Ad Network
  37. Online Advertising Marches On, Search Sprints
  38. A Little Insight Into Yahoo’s Thinking On Blogs and Search
  39. How Wrong We Can Be….
  40. Did you mean…
  41. Browsers Matter
  42. Now *That’s* Paid Search…
  43. Jeeves Local Search Coming
  44. Amazon Gives A9 Users a Discount
  45. Search Engine Parody: Aks Jeeves
  46. SEW Blog
  47. Joe Kraus, Blogger
  48. FindWhat Announces Pay Per Call
  49. Quiet Period Over, Hambrecht Speaks
  50. Pluck
  51. Happiness
  52. News: A9 Launches New Version
  53. News Day…
  54. Niche Ad Network: Pointing the Way?
  55. Check The News On GOOG
  56. The Virtual Desktop: Lycos Throws Its Hat In…
  57. Off Fooing
  58. RSS Blender: Interesting Prototype
  59. And They Were In The Head for The Other 8 Percent
  60. Now This Will Drive Em….
  61. Perfect Search
  62. Growing Pains in the SEM Industry
  63. AdSense Update
  64. That Dang Macintosh
  65. My First Day WIth AdSense: Battelle Gets Busted
  66. IDG’s Blunt Instrument
  67. Google Turns Six
  68. Yahoo to Debut FareChase Implementation
  69. Google Starts Pushing Picasa
  70. Searchblog’s New Look, Ad Update
  71. Search, Autism, and the Geek Culture
  72. All Classification Schemes Have Bias
  73. IPO Tick Tock
  74. Judge to Geico: Go Forth, And Sue
  75. Creative Commons Search, Now In Beta
  76. Killer Workshop Lineup & Loads of News at Web 2.0
  77. Grokking Rojo
  78. Andy’s SEM Conference
  79. Hell Bent
  80. The Political Sisters
  81. The China Firewall: Banned Keywords
  82. Paul Ford Strikes Again: The Banality of Google
  83. Tableau: Google for Structured Data?

August 2004

  1. Q: What’s the State of Web Question Answering?
  2. Thinking About Ads on Searchblog
  3. New Copernic Desktop Search
  4. What To Do With All The Money, Part 2: Nothing
  5. Good Overview for the Non-SEM/SEO Person…
  6. Google as Net Hard Drive
  7. What Google (And Alot of Other Companies) Knows About You
  8. Another Yahoo/Google Comparison Site, Jux2 Update
  9. Interesting Data
  10. Gary Finds a Google Patent on Client Side Ads
  11. Skrenta: Intent or Content?
  12. Sell Side Advertising: A New Model?
  13. Craiglist+Adsense
  14. A Clear Sign GOOG Is Drifting….Or…Maybe Focusing on The Right Things….
  15. Google Browser
  16. Search Engine Belt Buckle
  17. Quigo a Go Go
  18. Up and to the Right
  19. Fifteen Minutes…
  20. What to Do with All That Cash, Part 1 of 1mm…
  21. Google Gives Bloggers AdSense Choice
  22. More Playboy Goodness
  23. Do You Care About IM and Search?
  24. Lycos Makes People Search Official, Launches Discussion Search
  25. Money It’s a Flowin’…
  26. Web 2.0: Program Highlights, Your Input Wanted
  27. Google Guy Responds
  28. Whoops.
  29. Google Breaks Into Original Range
  30. This Is Odd
  31. Advice from Gillmor
  32. Broadband Pushes Past 50%
  33. GOOG Opens Up
  34. GOOG To Open Shortly…
  35. Yow. WSJ Tears Google a New One…
  36. Markoff’s Grace Note
  37. Google Prices at $85
  38. Yahoo Launches Search Blog, Battelle Considers Bigfoot Letter
  39. Recall Toolbar
  40. Google IPO Gets Green Light
  41. The Newspapers Try Local Search
  42. Decisions Based on (More) Perfect Market Data
  43. Google Cuts Range, Shares Offered
  44. Filo Makes a Point
  45. Not Yet…
  46. Two Guys From Stanford
  47. Search Survey
  48. A New Jager
  49. Google Quarterly Report
  50. Why Paid Search Is Growing
  51. Compare Search Results With Jux2
  52. RSS Ads: A Matter of Time
  53. EBay Buys Into Craigslist
  54. Search Numbers
  55. Crediting The Blogosphere
  56. The Memex, The Story, and Searchstreams
  57. Full Text of The Interview
  58. If Anyone’s Bidding….
  59. Give an Interview in April…
  60. Kottke on The Platform Web
  61. Claria Latest To Pull…
  62. Yet Another GOOG S1-A
  63. More Adverse Market Conditions
  64. But Will They Be Indexed on the Web?
  65. Kozoru
  66. G-Metrics
  67. A Lunch At Yahoo
  68. Bidding Process Nears End Point
  69. RSS and Business Models: Everyone Is Talking…
  70. Big Brother, Inc.
  71. New Twist on Local Search Engine
  72. Blogs and Business
  73. Future of Search Overview
  74. More on Patent Suit
  75. Holy Sh*t: Google and Yahoo Settle Patent Lawsuit
  76. News: Yahoo Buys FareChase
  77. Good Clean Fun
  78. GOOG Headline Roundup
  79. Report: Google IPO Delayed, Auction “Logistics” Blamed
  80. Sogou: Imitation….
  81. Lycos’ New Owner
  82. “Adverse Market Conditions”
  83. Cnet Updates Search.com
  84. Henry Blodget (!) on the Google IPO
  85. Vanity Lives!
  86. Search Engine Strategies Show
  87. Yahoo Launches Yahoo Local Beta
  88. Cuban Backs IceRocket
  89. Topix Gets Better
  90. Updated Google Valuation Spreadsheet
  91. The TiVo Debate: Missing the Picture

July 2004

  1. Gilgamesh, Search, and Immortality
  2. The Google IPO Site Is Live…
  3. Make Announced
  4. Self-INDUCE
  5. Wiki WriteUp
  6. Interesting Analysis of the Google/Overture Suit
  7. Google Preso at Waldorf: Mixed Reviews
  8. $12.5 Billion to $95 million. Ouch.
  9. Google IPO Headline Roundup: The Press Lashes Back
  10. MSFT Newsbot: Take That, Google News
  11. Which Business Do You Want To Be In?
  12. Overture’s Search Optimizer
  13. Watch the Road Show?
  14. The MyDoom Attack(s)
  15. Search Africa
  16. New S1-A; “GOOG” to Price as Early as Today
  17. Next B 2.0 Column: Henning Kagermann
  18. Back in Business…
  19. Google Hit With Another Suit…
  20. EBay and Search: Just an Example…
  21. Blog Search = Political Analysis
  22. We Should All Have Such Problems….
  23. Blinkx to Launch
  24. Wide Open?
  25. Feedster Hits the Cosmos
  26. MSN Buys Lookout
  27. Classic GoTo Page From Internet Archive
  28. As We May Rant
  29. Is Subscription the Next Thing?
  30. Report: Google Audio/Visual Search Coming
  31. Google Acquires Picasa, Now I Can Say It…
  32. Bitoogle
  33. Why The Archive Matters
  34. July Column: GM (GM!)
  35. Google Files Another S-1A
  36. Huh. I suggest…
  37. Yahoo’s New Search Results Page…
  38. Iowa Electronic Markets Trades In Google IPO Contracts
  39. So That’s Why No One Is Asking to Be My Friend Anymore…
  40. MSFT Drops Paid Inclusion

June 2004

  1. A Plea As I Rebuild…
  2. Vacation, not a Moment Too Soon
  3. A Call With Bezos
  4. A Talk With Tim Koogle
  5. Boom! Go Salesforce Shares
  6. Document Compare on Google S1
  7. Amazon Switches to A9 On Home Page…Still Google, In the End
  8. Google Files Amended S-1 (S-1A)
  9. The Ask Package Deal
  10. Google Extends Syndication, Adds Site Flavor
  11. Find.com Launches, Raises My Eyebrows
  12. Om Sees BlinkX
  13. A Morning With Danny Hillis
  14. Ripping off Google?
  15. A New Boing Boing
  16. Huh. Google Buys Into Baidu.
  17. News: Yahoo Says: 2 Gigs to You, Google
  18. A Year Of Predictions, Six Months In
  19. A Year Ahead
  20. Blogory
  21. F*cking Google It
  22. The World Emanating Googly Rays of Light
  23. Oh So Quiet We Leak
  24. Search as a Window
  25. Go Bears, Search Looksmart
  26. Ask Adds Desktop Search: Tukaroo
  27. TiVo: Net Recording Ho!
  28. Safa: The Internet Is Undervalued
  29. Idea Dumb, Guys
  30. Pay Per Call: Bypass the Web, Make the Call
  31. Yahoo Arbitraging RSS Keywords Via Google?
  32. Gates at D: MSFT Will Wear White Hat In Search
  33. Andrew Anker Joins Six Apart
  34. Think Back to 1998…
  35. The Two Garys Talk
  36. USA Today Panel: Very Web 2.0
  37. Sassa To Run F’ster
  38. Like Honey to Spammers: It’s All About Jakob, Baby
  39. Safa On Online Ads, Search: Growth, and More Growth
  40. They Can’t Talk About Their Business…
  41. The Internet is the New Paper

May 2004

  1. Neat: Search just those sites you want to
  2. Google Responds To Gmail Privacy Issues: The Higher Standard
  3. If At First….
  4. Search as Media Gatekeeper
  5. MSFT Hints at Future Search Strategy
  6. Toward the Endemic: What’s missing in PPC/Behavioral/Contextual Ad Nets
  7. June Column: Mary Meeker
  8. Search, Meet Desktop. Desktop, Meet Search. MSFT, Meet Plaxo. Plaxo…
  9. Just in Time for AdTech: Record Q1 Ad Revs
  10. Manber on Search from NYC WWW Conference
  11. Govt Stats: E-Commerce Strong
  12. Google’s Software Principles: How Broadly Shall We Read Them?
  13. Seruku: Another Clickstream/PersonalWeb High Order Bit
  14. Paid Inclusion
  15. The Desktop Search Wars
  16. Forgive my spam, and…Wall St. on the the Big IPO…
  17. Shocker: Google Has an Ethics Committee
  18. NYC Bound
  19. What’s the Value of Brand Advertising?
  20. Govt Panel: Protect Citizen’s Privacy
  21. Spam, Spam. Sigh.
  22. Yow
  23. Search, R.I.P.?
  24. Da Vinci: “Hey Googlio, how the hell do I get to Rome?”
  25. Jeremy on LinkSpam
  26. Zeitgeist: War Beats Britney
  27. Fast and Furious Comes the News
  28. Terms of Service and the Clickstream: A Survey
  29. Google Is A Yugo
  30. Google Launches Blog
  31. More S-1 Grokking: Google Purchases Ignite Logic, Inc.
  32. Blogger Redux
  33. End of Week Newsletter/Conference Plug
  34. Aristotle and the Knowledge Web
  35. Neat PageRank Hack
  36. How Memes Travel
  37. From the Ephemeral to the Eternal
  38. Info Porn
  39. An Aside…But…
  40. Google’s Financials, In .xls Format
  41. Metadata Tagging The Social Grid Via Search
  42. The Incubation Platform
  43. “SuperGoogle”
  44. The Foundation for the Platform
  45. Bad Idea
  46. Lighter Posting Ahead…
  47. Mitch Kapor: Google Wants Its Cake…
  48. Seth Goldstein on What Google Means to Wall Street
  49. Web 2.0, the Conference
  50. Two Bits of News From Looksmart
  51. Tidbits from the S1, continued
  52. Ujiko

April 2004

  1. Forget RSS. Blow Up Atom. Here Comes….Webfeed?
  2. The Google Easter Egg
  3. Second Day Updates
  4. By the Way…
  5. Now That The Other Shoe Has Dropped
  6. Time Out
  7. Time to Rethink the Adwords Policy
  8. Privacy, Gmail, and Unintended Consequences
  9. Why I Love Craigslist
  10. Lunch With Pierre
  11. Lycos Up For Grabs, Will Diller Re-engage?
  12. Tacoda To Form AudienceMatch
  13. Good God, Let’s Get On WIth It Already
  14. Talk of the Nation
  15. Enterprise Search (Yaawwwwnnn)
  16. Search Engines and the DMCA: Don’t Be Evil
  17. A Tale of Two Googles
  18. Biz Mag Round Up
  19. Google Sued in France: Trademarks
  20. Markoff: Details on Google Filing; Rivlin: Who WIll Get Rich
  21. Why Subscribe to Re-Find?
  22. Simson’s Piece on Akamai and Google: Good Reading
  23. Good Profile of Moritz
  24. More Google News
  25. Good Morning, Your Net IPO Today Is Not Yet Google…
  26. Really..Must…Put…Google…On…Cover
  27. Feed Controversy!
  28. MSN Earnings Are In…
  29. Tickle Searches People
  30. Another Reason I Like Search…
  31. Microsoft: Built From Scratch, The Interface Migrates to the Web
  32. Time Warner: Get Over AOL Already
  33. DIY Search
  34. Nutch Update
  35. Good Evening. More IPOs For You…Including a Mapping Giant…
  36. Good Morning, Your Net IPO Today Is….
  37. Taking the Day Off, Headed to MSFT
  38. Double Your Money In Two Months
  39. Want to Grok The Google File System?
  40. Good Day, Your Net IPO Today Is…
  41. Grokking Furl: Storage, Search, and the PersonalWeb
  42. Broadband: More than Half Have It…
  43. MSFT’s Sandbox
  44. Hey, Napster’s back, why not Netscape?
  45. Google Filing Watch: Many Say April 30 Is Deadline
  46. O’Reilly on Gmail and the Net
  47. Loads O’ News
  48. Search Engine Loyalty, A9 Prognostications…
  49. Super, Man
  50. At Yahoo, A Sense of Humor Emerges…
  51. China Internet Conference At Berkeley
  52. Google Innovates for Advertisers
  53. Good Morning, Your New Net IPO For The Day Is…
  54. Interview with A9’s Manber up on B2.0
  55. Searching Is Getting More Complicated
  56. More on A9
  57. NEWS: A9, Amazon’s Search Portal, Goes Live: Reverberations Felt in Valley
  58. F*cking Spam
  59. The Web Time Axis
  60. Gmail update: CA Legislation, Timeline, et al
  61. The Politics of SERPs
  62. What Does Google Know Trademark Lawyers Don’t?
  63. More Open Source Search: Mozdex
  64. Cramer: Google IPO Proves System Is Corrupt
  65. Findory Featured…
  66. Search Radio
  67. Microsoft: Fat around the Middle?
  68. Good Morning, Your New Net IPO Today Is….
  69. The Font of Tragedy
  70. I’ll Take Mesothelioma for $100
  71. The Web As Platform
  72. IntelliTXT: Your Advertising Peanut Butter Is In My Editorial Chocolate….
  73. Re-Find
  74. Claria Clarified
  75. Claria Files For IPO
  76. Google and Online Currency?
  77. Yahoo Earnings Jump, Stock Does the Splits
  78. Privacy Advocates: Suspend Plans For Gmail
  79. The Google Platform Meme Grows
  80. The Trademark Lawsuit That Won’t Go Away…
  81. Yahoo Launches Soul Search
  82. Referrals and the Yahoo Switchover
  83. The Future of Search
  84. Phillip Blogs Blow by Blow on Gmail Testing
  85. Spymac?
  86. IntelliTXT Debuts, Journalists Not Pleased
  87. Safa Says: Strong Earnings Ho…
  88. Revenue Science
  89. boing boing and the bills
  90. The IPOs Are Back, Advertising.com…
  91. Yahoo: New Brand Image (“Life Engine”), Distribution Wins
  92. How To Stop Gambling Online? We’ll Never Know, Exactly…
  93. TuneCircle
  94. Skrenta Groks The Google Platform OS
  95. Is the Google IPO Meme Slipping?
  96. Newsletter reminder
  97. I’ll Scrape Your Back, But Don’t You Scrape Mine…
  98. Google Changes AdSense Pricing Strategy
  99. GMail Roundup: “The Creeps”
  100. Yahoo Responds to GMail (unconfirmed)
  101. Ask BVDs…
  102. Kinja Launches (No Fooling, I think….)
  103. Gmail: Elaborate Fraud, Or…
  104. The Other Shoe Finally Drops: Google Files S-1
  105. Fishing For Dipsie

March 2004

  1. A Month of Search Patents
  2. Marchex IPO Gets Out, Deal Oversold
  3. The Top Keywords of the Week
  4. Unconfirmed: Koogle to Helm F’ster?
  5. NewsMap
  6. GlobalSpec: Domain Specific Search and the Semantic Web
  7. Eric S. Interview in WSJ
  8. Google Lawyers Busy: New Lawsuit Over Location Search
  9. Case Wants AOL Back
  10. Why Topix Is Different: Toward A Sustainable Model For Net Media Companies
  11. Elgoog
  12. Semel Gets His Fortune Profile
  13. Baidu Chief On Google, China
  14. Google Says: Check Under Our Hood (Personalized Search, et al)
  15. Yahoo and Kelkoo
  16. MSFT Groks Technorati, Readies Blogbot
  17. Mapquest Reverse Engineers Local Search
  18. New 2.0 Column: Mike Ramsay, TiVo
  19. Update
  20. MSFT & Search: Europe, Ballmer
  21. Shopping.com IPO Is A Search IPO…
  22. Early April Fool’s Post at MediaNews…We Hope
  23. UPDATE: It’s Brandt’s Bomb
  24. Yippee! Jeremy Rants Again!
  25. WaPost On TV: Shift Coming
  26. Upcoming WWW Conference: Loads O Search
  27. Silverstein Rides Again
  28. There Are Two Primal Forces In Comic Parody…
  29. Kanoodle News
  30. NewsJunkie
  31. Opera Integrates Voice Commands Into Browser
  32. Google IPO Con Man Profiled…
  33. GuruNet Founder Interviewed
  34. Future of Commercial Search, Cont: Yahoo Autos
  35. Toolbars De Mundo…
  36. AP Story: Google Invades Privacy
  37. FBI Nabs Google AdWords Extortionist
  38. T’rati Goes Live With New UI
  39. Dan R, Jonathan Miller at PC Forum
  40. Eric S. At PC Forum
  41. Osama Bin Laden Is My Local Doctor
  42. All My Covers Are Google
  43. Vanity Googling Ends With Libel Suit
  44. Just Announced: Microsoft Will Clean Up Its Search Act
  45. Lite Day Friday: Off to LA
  46. Here’s How To Save AOL: Google Stock
  47. Paging Gary Price: The Librarians Have Found the On Switch
  48. Interesting New Toolbar
  49. FeedBurner: Know Your RSS Readers
  50. How Important Is Search to MSFT?
  51. Fire One Over Google’s Bow
  52. A Talk With David Gerlertnter
  53. Bill Joy Moves In
  54. Yahoo Announces New News Search
  55. Time Warner…Set AOL Free
  56. PageRank Tool
  57. Is Search Important to Ebay?
  58. Comcast Conspiracy Roundup
  59. Google Takes Local Out of The Labs
  60. Diller Buys TripAdvisor
  61. Mamma’s Got a Cuban
  62. Kanoodle: A Different Approach
  63. Data Mining and Your Privacy
  64. Geo Search: MetaCarta
  65. Yahoo Gets Boobled
  66. Bray’s Other Shoe: Sun
  67. New Web Research Tool From JJ Allaire..
  68. Introducing Re-Find
  69. Watch Out, Google, Here Comes…
  70. Again (AGAIN!) The NYT on Google
  71. Jerry Yang Interviewed In Taiwan
  72. Psst…Wanna Buy Some Pre-IPO Google Shares?
  73. Yahoo Updates Battelle
  74. Bray Is Happy
  75. Off Interviewing…
  76. CEO of Northern Light on Future of Search
  77. Email Search, Cont: Bloomba
  78. iPhrase
  79. Times On Online Video Advertising
  80. Things Are LOOKing Up
  81. Gillmor Posts Book Chapters
  82. More on the Googleverse
  83. Industry Brains Beefs Up Financial Network
  84. Don’t Be A GoogleDork
  85. MSN Money Says: No Bubble Here
  86. Just 1 in 9 Small Business Know About Paid Search
  87. EFF Sues FCC
  88. BWeek on Oceana Flap
  89. Sign O’ the Times…
  90. IBM v Google, The Chart
  91. Funny Google Pages
  92. Smart Maps: Search+Maps at Yahoo
  93. Mom’s Medium: The Web
  94. Winer Offers Peace With Atom
  95. Salon on the Deep Web
  96. WebFountain, the Long Version
  97. Summary of SES
  98. Neat Ranking Hack
  99. Topix Launches Today
  100. Stumble
  101. Can Television Route Around the Broadcast Flag?
  102. TiVo: 10 million subscribers! (in 4 years…)
  103. I Want X1!
  104. March 2.0 Column
  105. Ask Bulks Up….
  106. Database Vendors: Dumb, Dying, Reactive, Dangerous…
  107. Comment Spam, A Personal Tale
  108. Silverstein Hits the Bong, Orlowski Hits the Roof
  109. Forrestor on Google Again
  110. Safa Says: CPC May Double
  111. PS – on Yahoo’s CAP
  112. Initial Resistance to Yahoo’s CAP…Ask Cancels Its Paid Inclusion…
  113. More Ad News
  114. Web’s Role In Buying Process
  115. The Big Shift
  116. A Quick Tour of Google NY
  117. Google Beware, AOMI Stalks You
  118. Speaking of Money…
  119. At SES
  120. Blogrolling Rolled Up…
  121. Funny Google Hack: Goodle

February 2004

  1. Page on IPO at TED
  2. Eric S. on Orkut TOS et al
  3. Research Asst.
  4. WebFountain, Technorati Visits
  5. And Your Point Is?
  6. Being Seen As Rich Is A Burden
  7. Yahoo Says Yes, Google Said No….
  8. Why Stern Matters
  9. Compare Yahoo and Google Results
  10. Semel Says: Social Networking Is Interesting…
  11. Ryan Bails from MSFT
  12. Patents – Simmering Under the Surface…
  13. News, Rumor Roundup
  14. The New Lycos Page Is Up…
  15. Industry Brains Launches RSS Paid Listings
  16. Joi On Search in Japan
  17. Whitman Again Stresses Google Is Not Competitor…But Plans Local Play….
  18. Froogle Goes Wireless
  19. Google Pioneered It, Jeeves Does It, Now…
  20. Taunted by Tatas
  21. Net Penetration Surpasses Cable…
  22. SEW: Local Search Needs Small Biz
  23. KeepMedia Launches RSS Feeds
  24. FindWhat Buys Again…
  25. Mainstream 2: Google Founders on the Hustings
  26. Search Ratings for January
  27. Bravo
  28. Surprised? TIA Lives On
  29. NYT, Wired Weighs In
  30. Signs of Marketing Prowess To Come…
  31. Proof of Search’s Powers…
  32. Posting Will Slow, Disneyland Ho…
  33. A UI Designer at Google Rants…
  34. WSJ Does A Test
  35. Scraping Orkut
  36. Cool
  37. Industry Brains: Context and Quality Matters, Slashdot Added
  38. Google’s Brin on AdSense; Watch DCLK
  39. Ink Stained Google Hacks
  40. The Switch Is On
  41. Yahoo: New Index “Highly Competitive”
  42. Resourceshelf Interviews Dipsie Founder
  43. Safa Says: No Bubble in 2005
  44. Yeah, But The Catch Is…
  45. Germane to the Last Post…
  46. Google Index Swells, Yahoo Switch Imminent
  47. PS – Akimbo
  48. Scoble Says: Watch This Space
  49. Jeremy On Yahoo’s New Search
  50. More Demo hacks
  51. Times on Local Search
  52. Neat Feedster Hack
  53. The World Post-Google
  54. Mike Ramsay: TiVo As Web Platform
  55. Tech Review: Search Beyond Google
  56. The Reshuffle Button
  57. A Talk With Weiner
  58. The Ad Bubble Has Been Topped
  59. Advocacy: Not At Google, Either
  60. Ramsay, Weiner, Kapor
  61. Vivisimo Targets eBay Listings
  62. Lycos: Can’t Win in Search, Turns to Social Networking
  63. Paid Search >$2 billion in 2003, Local Next
  64. Google Takes AdWords to China
  65. The Atom/RSS Fracas
  66. P&G Ad Chief: Permission Marketing Or Bust
  67. Neat Tool
  68. Forrester on Google
  69. Diller: Bubble Ho!
  70. Mid-Talk, A Technorati hack..
  71. Search Your Mother Could Use…
  72. MSFT: A Good Actor in the Search Wars
  73. New York City: Not In Our Name
  74. Semantic Web Standards Released
  75. Saving the World From Television
  76. POMO Conference Scene
  77. WashPost: Search Is Scary
  78. Perception: Open Society, Transparent Government. Reality: Florida
  79. Seekscan
  80. NYT on Friendster et al..
  81. Norway Gets a Netscape IPO?
  82. Technorati Got Search
  83. SEW Awards Are Up, Google Cleans Up
  84. Heading to eTech…
  85. Can’t We Be Friends?
  86. Cool Recommendation Service
  87. The Register On Orkut’s TOS
  88. It Had To Happen…
  89. Jeremy, Yahoo, RSS
  90. Call A Librarian…
  91. WebFountain Gets Serious
  92. Search The Earth
  93. Finding Sounds
  94. Search, Your Data, and Social Networks
  95. Nielsen and TiVo Unite on Ratings
  96. RSS Tools
  97. More on Trademarks
  98. Talking With Gary Price
  99. Being Jon Kleinberg
  100. Queries Getting Denser
  101. Next Stop, Cover of Time Magazine…
  102. Slowly, The Battleship Comes About
  103. Gigablast: One Man, 8 Machines, And Now Related Concepts
  104. This Search Blows
  105. Winer: Orkut Is Google’s Identity System
  106. Udell on Scylla and Charybdis
  107. When Gary Price Writes…
  108. Sick of Orkut? Try Urkel
  109. Why Do You Suppose It’s Taught In Seattle?
  110. NYT: The Valley v. MSFT, Round 2
  111. Don’t Let ‘Em Lock Down Facts….

January 2004

  1. So Is It Hot?
  2. The Buzz From the Blogorati Ain’t Great…
  3. Why Good Things Come After Bad Things Happen…
  4. RSS Advertising
  5. The Orkut/Data Connection
  6. The Economist on MSFT
  7. A Chat With Halsey
  8. Google Deflates Expectations
  9. Why You Should Google Your Date
  10. Update: American Blind Files Suit
  11. Turnitin.com
  12. Corporate Reputation Management Engine
  13. Current Column (Finally!): Why Blogs Mean Business
  14. Booble Hears From The Lawyers
  15. Orkut is back up
  16. Interesting Twist: Google and WhoIs LookUps
  17. Amazon: Walmart of the Web Once More
  18. On Marketing Marketing
  19. NYTD Earnings: Lessons Learned
  20. Another SE Chart
  21. Gigablast Connects Wayback…
  22. TiVo makes Interesting Move
  23. Google Clears Sarbanes-Oxley Audit, Next Stop….Wall St.?
  24. The Corporation
  25. Cost of a Ticket Into Orkut?
  26. Way Cool Music Search
  27. Toolbar Wars: MSN Counters
  28. SEO/SEM Market Turns Sights Toward Inktomi
  29. Highbeam
  30. BannanaSlug
  31. Brief Orkut Thoughts
  32. Google Alert – Pointing Toward Search As A Platform
  33. Paid Search Trademark Case Settled
  34. Louis Borders and KeepMedia
  35. NYT on Google Vanity
  36. Davos: Joi and Sergey Talk Blog
  37. Esther Got a Blog
  38. My Yahoo and RSS
  39. Man, With All These Shoes Dropping…
  40. The Times Notices Google Bombing
  41. BizWeek on the Trademark Case
  42. Overture: We Can Do Email Too…
  43. I Know I Saw It Somewhere…
  44. Thinking About Adding AdSense?
  45. Talk the Talk?
  46. Eurekster Gets Noticed
  47. The Standard, Now Blogging
  48. Booble
  49. Yet More RSS-based Innovation
  50. Sprawler: Another Ally in Open Source Search
  51. Technorati Gets A New Engine
  52. But Wait! There’s More!
  53. Yahoo Wants the Innovation Mantle Back, Thank You Very Much…
  54. And While We’re On The Topic Of News…
  55. Findory – News Search-cum-Contextual Recommendation Engine
  56. Microsoft: Same Old Same Old?
  57. TV and the Web, Shoe #2
  58. Get In Early…
  59. On CBS and MoveOn
  60. RSS Conference/Webcast This Week
  61. The Yellow Pages Strike Back
  62. Reuters: Google Planning Email-based AdWords Service
  63. Battle of the SEOs
  64. Why I Love Blogs
  65. eBay = The Fed
  66. A Worthy Read
  67. Playboy v. Netscape: A Wrinkle in the Paid Search Model
  68. Metrobot
  69. Semel: The Shoe Drops This Quarter
  70. DNA Search. Yes, Really.
  71. Yahoo Earnings: Fair to Good
  72. Amen To That, Brother
  73. Another Not-News Story About Search
  74. Now Searchable: Your Rental Car
  75. The Dude Abides…or…Dudester
  76. Bray on Tech Success
  77. Broadband – Your Estimates May Vary
  78. Features, Features…To What End?
  79. Beyond the Browser Again…
  80. How Superbowl Ad Prices Prove Old Media Is Splintering
  81. Why The Search Box Is Important…
  82. Exactly…
  83. Sterling on Search
  84. The SCO Suit Spills Into Search
  85. The Search Papers: Do Web Search Engines Suppress Controversy?
  86. TiVo Tries To Give Us What We Want…
  87. Yahoo Getting Into RSS Aggregation Game
  88. NYT on MSFT
  89. Good Overview of Local Search
  90. Baidu: A Chinese Google? OK, I’ll Bite
  91. Friendster = Big Brother? Nah.
  92. Crawler Available, Will Work for Free
  93. MetaCarta Gets MetaFunding
  94. Afternoon with Marc Andreessen; Friendster
  95. My Site Was Funky, Now It’s Square
  96. Top Ten Reasons To Have Top Ten Reasons…
  97. Stats and Trends in Online Media
  98. Regulate TiVo? Come on.
  99. Yahoo Gets Set
  100. Declaring the Relationship (RSS related)
  101. Bloomberg: Google Chooses Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs to Lead IPO
  102. Broadband: Fastest Adoption of New Tech in History?
  103. Google Takes Over the World
  104. Tipping Point For Shoppng Engines?
  105. Wired News: Narrowing the Search
  106. Television News, New Year’s Eve, and a Question
  107. The People Search Meme Grows: Plink
  108. Is Apple Going TiVo?
  109. “Ungoogle”
  110. FriendRank
  111. Grokking WebFountain
  112. Happy New Year, 2003 Zeitgeist
  113. (Updated x2) Top Yellow Pages Searches

2003 140

December 2003

  1. Moving Beyond the Browser…
  2. Wired on How to Save the Internet
  3. Rename it “Cardster” and Watch the VCs Come Running….
  4. Another Oddly Named New One…
  5. At Least It Doesn’t Claim To Be The Next Google….
  6. Vertical Search: Sidestep The Obvious
  7. And From The I Couldn’t Resist Department…
  8. Australia’s Answer to Google? Nah.
  9. Watch This Space: Comcast
  10. Parts of Patriot II Slipped Into Law While No One Was Looking…
  11. Find O’ The Day: WordNet
  12. China’s Answer to Google
  13. On Invisible Tabs (and Hands)
  14. The Health of Magazines: Blame Cable As Much As Internet
  15. A Software Wish
  16. Why Yahoo, Interactive, and Google Love Local Search …
  17. Corporate Search Is Sexy
  18. The Mayo Database
  19. Thoughts on 2004
  20. Gurley on Cable Regulation: Counterintuitive Thinking
  21. LinkedIn+Vertical Blogs = Interesting Microcommunities
  22. RSS Marches On…Net-based Aggregators
  23. The Salesforce IPO
  24. In a Name…
  25. How the Information Age = The Dark Ages
  26. A New Class of Google Results, With Interesting Implications
  27. Search IPO in Hong Kong
  28. Second Tier Players Strengthen
  29. Search Print
  30. Jakob Nielsen, Holiday Mixer
  31. It’s Official: Time Weighs In
  32. The “Creeping Googlization” Meme
  33. Don Logan Speaks
  34. Go Toast Bought
  35. #9: Springtime in Geekland
  36. #8: Intent over Content, Fish with Feet
  37. #7: MSFT and Search
  38. #6: A Growing Early Lockdown Threat: Super DMCAs
  39. #5: Nutch Presages a New Kind of Search Engine
  40. #4: That Wonderful Honda Ad
  41. #3: Why Contextual Paid Ads Matter
  42. Piece #2: Please, Steve, Buy TiVo
  43. My First Piece in 2.0
  44. Note: Column Upload to Commence
  45. Holiday Shopping: Froogle Update
  46. Remember the Internet Generation?
  47. Google, India, Yahoo, Paul
  48. Marchex
  49. Glimmers of Hope In Video Search
  50. It’s Not The Name, It’s The Verb
  51. Yet more funky little search companies
  52. Lycos Top Search Terms for 2003…
  53. Google+Friendster+Plaxo = Eurekster
  54. Grokking Groxis’ Grokker
  55. Three Years Ago, Where Were You?
  56. It’s “Like,” The Pioneers Get the Arrows
  57. The RSS Naming Party: Chunky or Smooth?
  58. Cnet Gets Some Good News
  59. Spookle
  60. Blocking Paid Search Ads
  61. The Search Papers: Bray on Search
  62. Jeremy Z. on 2004…
  63. The Search Papers: Challenges in Web Search Engines (A Google Paper, 2002)
  64. Blogging For Dollars
  65. A Morning with Brewster
  66. RSS Pushed One Step Closer to the Limelight
  67. Zeitgiest in Action: “Miserable Failure”
  68. Monier, Yahoo, Gadgets
  69. Welcome FeedsterFolk
  70. On RSS, Blogs, and Search
  71. A Dance, Or A Hurricane?

November 2003

  1. The Search Papers: Defining Intent
  2. “eBay Is Search!”
  3. First Look at USBancorp Online Ad Projections: Next Year Projected to Match Best of Boom
  4. A Couple of Cultural Commentaries
  5. The Search Papers: Europe Vs. U.S. Search Patterns
  6. Looksmart Launches FindArticles…So Far I’ve Found A Lot of Press Releases
  7. Yellow Pages – All Growth Is Digital
  8. More on Same…
  9. Must…Put…Google…On…The Cover
  10. Monoculture, Innovation, and the Ivory Tower: The Search Papers
  11. This Month’s Column Is Up
  12. Wharton States the Obvious, Hopes For The Press
  13. Lanier (yes, Jaron) on Software, Biology, Complexity, and …
  14. Carat Strengthens Search Buying Department
  15. Cato Weighs in on Google-As-Public-Utility Meme
  16. Thoughts on a Day With Yahoo and Feedster
  17. Singingfish Bought by AOL
  18. On Bad Approaches To Search
  19. The NYT, Yesterday’s News, and Plausible Deniability
  20. MSFT jumps into News
  21. Another Good SE Relationship Chart
  22. Google Code Jam Winner
  23. Why We Wish Some Public Information Would Remain Bound To Atoms (The Public Privacy Dilemma)
  24. A Robust Market Ecology
  25. Search Drives First-Ever Quarterly Profits at MSN
  26. Ask Searches For What’s Next In Search
  27. The Database of Intentions
  28. Online Ad Sales Booming (The Standard)
  29. Diller, Cheshire Cat of Local Search
  30. Watch What You Do While Online: Universities (Including Mine) Log Students’ Net Usage…Govt. and RIAA Take Notice
  31. Drug Companies to Search Engines: Enough With The Drugs, Already
  32. Small Biz Drives Online Advertising
  33. Steven Johnson and Contextual Ads: Hold the Heroin
  34. The Semantic Web Won’t Work. Discuss.
  35. Now Searchable: Your Luggage
  36. Google Launches the Deskbar, Challenge to Windows?
  37. How Much New Information Do We Create In One Year?
  38. A Librarian’s Lament
  39. Yahoo Redecorates
  40. Sullivan on Recent Developments
  41. Network TV’s Iridium Moment
  42. Alliances/Partners At A Glance
  43. EBay: Google’s Not A Threat; Overture’s Tops, Jupiter Says
  44. The Economist Weighs In
  45. Declan on Govt. Information Practices
  46. “Get Where You Want In Two Clicks”
  47. The future of video advertising
  48. Microsoft and Google?
  49. New baby Beatrix is here…

October 2003

  1. Baby coming…
  2. O’Reilly on Tech/Media Future
  3. Standing By Their Numbers…
  4. AOL Turnaround?
  5. Architecture = Politics
  6. Mining the Web for Marketing Intelligence
  7. More on Sprinks: It’s the distribution
  8. Sprinks Sold
  9. The WSJ Gets Hip to Search
  10. Wolf on Amazon
  11. Network TV: It ain’t working
  12. Again With The IPO
  13. Where Are All the Viewers?
  14. The Google IPO, again
  15. Google Use Tips
  16. Deep (Invisible) Web Resources
  17. Microsoft and Overture (Yahoo): Wed till 05
  18. Again, The Death of Tivo
  19. Transparency v. Trust
  20. First Entry

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