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Lively lets you create a virtual 3-D world where others can chat with you and even help you create your 3-D world. This is so ‘98. In computer terms, that’s ancient. You can add a virtual room to your site hoping others stop by to chat. Personally I’ve got better things to do, but perhaps […]

Happy fourth of July. Check out the search engine logos for today’s celebration!

Yahoo! has some animation.
MSN some very basic fireworks in their logo.
And Ask with a nice of one of our founding documents.
Dogpile disappointed us with nothing special today.
Happy fourth!!!

If you try to go to the Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool, you won’t get it. Instead you get a permanent redirect to Advertising Your Business with Yahoo! Search Marketing. It wasn’t without warning. The tool has been off and on again for some time.

YouTube adds video annotations so you can add speech bubbles to your video. If you aren’t doing videos to help market your site, you could be missing out on a large potential audience. Now with the ability to annotate your video, you can add that comic book flair to your presentation.
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Google Heath offers to help diagnose, look for drug interactions and store your consolidated health records. Does anyone else think this is a bad idea? Why should Google be able to amass all this data and sell the “non-confidential” statistics it gathers? And why would I trust my medical records to a beta software program […]

The Internet is buzzing about Google’s new site social endeavor called Friend Connect. Check out more on their blog…..
Google Press Center: News Announcement

There’s a great discussion about Google’s seeming ability to provide results that include synonyms. This confirms some of my findings. Google seems to be giving more relevance to user provided data than linking in certain cases. No surprise here but good to have evidence. Read more about it here….
Stemming of complex plurals - Crawling, […]

Conquering all frontiers, Google will now index forums and other form sites to capture even more information. This can be beneficial for users searching how to information contained in various sites without having to visit each site. Google does state that they will avoid password protected pages. While many forums and form sites are already […]

Let the rumors fly! Ask is cutting 8% of it’s work force. Rumors abound that it’s going to remodel itself for the female market. Other rumors include mothballing Teoma and using Google data instead. Ask is denying all such rumors yet still why would they lay off talented people? It certainly isn’t to improve their […]

It’s part of Google Apps now….yup, Jotspot is back. If you didn’t know what Jotspot was, it’s similar in nature to SharePoint. It’s collaboration wiki-styled. It’s too new to have many real indepth comments yet, but rest assured that geeks across the globe are signing up for it and reviews will be in shortly.
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