Update: AOL enters local search market
With this move joins search engine rivals Google Profile Products Articles Yahoo and Ask Jeeves Profile Products Articles which have similar services The free service is available to both subscribers of the feebased online service and to Web users at httplocalsearchaolcom
estimates that about 20 percent of the queries run on its main Web search engine are for local information so given the interest in this type of search it makes sense for to have this service said Dariusz Paczuski vice president of marketing for Search and Directional Media...
Tips and Tweaks: Smart Searches, Without Google
All told Scott Spanbauer and I nail 45 toolsand Scott has the last word on what he thinks is the champion browser But hes wrong and in a few weeks from now Ill show you and him why In the meantime there are a few Web sites Im particularly delighted with and I want to make sure you see them
Chowhound
If you live in one of the cities served by Chowhound I absolutely insist you log on and ask for restaurant advice My wife checks the site regularly scarfing up recommendations and asking for recipes Last week a bunch of us went into Hollywood affectionately known as Hollyweird for a Chowhoundrecommended Thai restaurant...
Search Engines, Bloggers Team to Fight Spam
The Internets leading search engines and a major Weblog tool vendor are joining together to fight the onslaught of spam in the comment sections of blogs
Google Inc Microsoft Corps division Yahoo Inc and Six Apart Ltd announced late Tuesday that they are supporting a tag called nofollow to exclude links in blog comments from searchengine crawlers and to prevent spam posts from influencing search rankings
Comment spam occurs when spammers attempt to dump Web site links into the comment sections of blogs The spammers often use automated bots with the goal of trying to game search engines by increasing their link popularity...