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December 1, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Dec. 1, 2005: Microsoft's Classifieds Service Shapes Up, Google's War Chest To Fight Redmond, Yahoo Gets Firefox Win, Upset Over Bios At Wikipedia & More!

Today's search podcast covers how Microsoft's classified ads service is shaping up, Google building a war chest to fight Microsoft, Yahoo ousting Google on some versions of Firefox, humans still reviewing some ads at Google, issues with Wikipedia and biographies, new podcast search tools and more!

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December 2, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Dec. 2, 2005: Google Sandbox Effect, Yahoo's Search Behaviorally Targeted Ads, Will Personalized Search Work, All Official Google Blog Posts In One & More!

Today's search podcast covers the Google Sandbox effect and how some feel it prevents new sites from ranking well; Yahoo's search behaviorally targeted ads; Google accused of taking a product pitch, not calling back but still monitoring the product; whether personalized search will fly; getting all official Google blog post at once and more!

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December 13, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Dec. 13, 2005: Yahoo Answers Launched, Yahoo Buys Del.icio.us, MSN Virtual Earth Becomes Windows Local Live, Gains Cool Images; Alexa Offers Developers Tools; Paid Links Debated, Paris Hilton The Year's Top Search Term & More!

Today's search podcast covers the launch of Yahoo's question answering service, Yahoo Answers; other Q&A services; Yahoo's purchase of Del.icio.us; MSN Virtual Earth becoming Windows Local Live and gaining birds eye imagery; Google's new transit planning service for those in Portland, Oregon; Alexa's new vertical search engines that developers can rent; Yahoo's Jeremy Zawodny in a paid links selling debate, Lycos kicking off "top search terms of the year" season and more!

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December 14, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Dec. 14, 2005: Google Homepage Becomes More Customizable; Google Accounts System Needs Better Accounting; Been Googleshanked?; Google Library Scanning Project Turns 1; Yahoo's Reality TV Program; AdWords Get Bigger & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google letting developers help others customize its home page; Yahoo Konfabulator being renamed Yahoo Widgets to reflect the software widgets it makes available; Google Accounts needing to be improved and streamlined; the terrible feeling of being Googleshanked; Google's library scanning project turning a year old; Google TV ads -- at least on public television; Yahoo's reality TV show that's coming; Google making the NASDAQ 100, AdWords now ranked in part on landing pages, plus they go up a font size; a new search engine forum; voting for your favorite search blog; the most popular searches of the year at AOL and more!

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December 15, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Dec. 15, 2005: Google Music Search, Yahoo Podcast Subscriptions Page, Facelift For Google Catalogs, Yahoo Index Update Coming, Year's Top Search Terms From Yahoo (Hello Britney!) & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google's new music search results, Yahoo's new podcast subscription pages, Google Catalogs getting a facelift, Yahoo's about to have an index update, Wikipedia accuracy issues, Microsoft's reassurance that "Locate Me" in Windows Local Live won't really identify you, cool Firefox extension from Google, Google getting top corporate reputation marks, top search terms of the year for A9 and Yahoo and more!

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December 16, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Dec. 16, 2005: Changes Coming to Yahoo Web Results Pages, Gmail Now Available for Mobile Users, Search Execs to speak at Consumer Electronic Show, New Offices for Google and Yahoo, A Look at Topix.net & More!

Today's search podcast covers Changes Coming to Yahoo Web Results Pages, the release of Gmail for Mobile Phones and Devices, Search Execs To Speak at Upcoming Consumer Electronics Show, Google and Yahoo Open New Offices, A Look at Topix.net, New and Improved Databases with U.S. Government Information, Opera Not in Talks with Google and more!

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December 20, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Dec. 20, 2005: Google & AOL Doing A Deal; Graphical Ads Coming To Google; Japan May Fund Its Own Search Engine; Create Your Own Yahoo Shortcuts; Google Book Search Rises In Usage; Topix News Search Grows & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google and AOL looking to renew their partnership vows leaving Microsoft in the cold; AOL's wedding gift to Google being new graphics ads for Google search results pages; Japan pondering if it needs to fund its own search engine; Yahoo's Open Shortcuts letting anyone make their own shorthand addresses to reach web sites; Google Book Search gets a usage boost through search results page links; Topix news search grows in features and more!

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December 21, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Dec. 21, 2005: Google & AOL Tie The Knot, Google Apps On Lexar USB Drives, AdSense For Domains Pains, Government Worries Over Google Earth's Big Eye, Yahoo Duo To Podcast, Google's Top Terms Of The Year & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google and AOL formally renewing their partnership, Google applications coming preloaded on Lexar flash drives, Google AdWords and Google Adsense being confusing product names; Google Adsense For Domains and a similar Yahoo program fueling typo sites at the cost of advertisers and users, Google Earth getting the blame for "exposing" secret government installations already viewable in other ways, Tim Mayer & Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo podcasting on Silicon Valley movers, Google releases year end data on popular searches and more!

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December 22, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Dec. 22, 2005: Traditional Marketer Worries Over Google, Scraper Sites Defined, WebmasterWorld Back In Search Engines, Google Sandbox Redux, Your Own Personal Google Zeitgeist & More!

Today's search podcast covers traditional marketers worrying about Google encroaching on their territory; what exactly a scraper site is -- you've seen them but may not know the name; WebmasterWorld lets the major spiders back in; Google's sandbox, sandbox effect or aging delay reexamined; a cool new way to see what you are searching for the most on Googe and more!

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December 23, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Dec. 23, 2005: Google's Possible Second IPO; Google Promises AOL Won't Create Compromises; Tag Search Via Wink; Top Searches Of The Year From Ask Jeeves & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google putting its 5 percent share of AOL into a holding company that may go public in the future; Google reassurances that the AOL will not compromise its impartiality or the user experience at Google; MSN getting a facelift; new meta search tool for tagging search engines; top searches of the year from Ask Jeeves and more!

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December 27, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Dec. 27, 2005: Ask Drops Jeeves Name In France, YouTube For Finding Video, A9's Amazon Discounts And MSN's Possible Pay To Search -- Will They Win Searchers & More!

Today's search podcast covers Ask Jeeves just becoming Ask for its French site, part of future rebranding moves perhaps?; a patent revealing more on how the Google Suggest query refinement tool works, Google to offer a feed API, a new video search and sharing tool called YouTube, tips on tracking Santa for next year, will sharing money with searchers win an audience for A9 and maybe MSN and more!

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December 28, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Dec. 28, 2005: Google Base Switches To Jump Pages, Some Publishers Ask Google Book Search To Display Pages From Their Books, Top Search Blogs Get Awards, Maps Make Saturday Night Live & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google Base sending searchers through "jump" pages, Google Book Search NOT being hacked to display books beyond what publishers allow, top search blogs get awards, measuring your alleged promiscuity level indirectly through Google, mapping services make Saturday Night Live and more!

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