Category: All (summaries)

Upcoming search engine marketing conferences

There are several venues for meeting fellow search engine enthusiasts and marketers: Danny Sullivan’s SMX, Search Engine Strategies, the Webmaster World conference and the PPC Summit. Here are the upcoming events.

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Posted on Monday 29 June 2009
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Pandia Search Engine News Wrap-up June 28

It’s Sunday and Pandia gives you the most important search engine news headlines of the week.

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Posted on Sunday 28 June 2009
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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.

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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.

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Posted on Tuesday 23 June 2009
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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 [...]

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Posted on Sunday 21 June 2009
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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.

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Posted on Sunday 21 June 2009
Filed under: All (summaries) and Online search tools and services and The search engine industry | Permalink

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.

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Posted on Wednesday 17 June 2009
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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.

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Posted on Tuesday 16 June 2009
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