Google Maps in Gmail

have both Yahoo! e-mail and Gmail accounts and a Comcast personal e-mail account—all of which I use for slightly different purposes. But I've started to notice that in Gmails where addresses appear, "Map This" links are showing up in the…

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YouTube and Rupert Murdoch

Last week my fellow analyst Mike Boland, author of our recent IPTV/video search report, blogged about hot video-community site YouTube . So did many people at MySpace, whose references to the site were apparently removed by Murdoch's organization. (The site…

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Google at $600?

Safa Rashtchy has started off this year with a high profile. The first analyst that I heard on the radio on the way to work was Piper Jaffray's Mr. Rashtchy being interviewed by CNBC about his prediction that Google will…

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The Marchex ZIP Destination Strategy

While "intuitive" domains (direct navigation) can generate considerable traffic, Stephen Baker at BusinessWeek asks whether Marchex's previous acquisition of ZIP code-based domains will prove a meaningful local search strategy. The headline of the post is "Could zip codes burn Google…

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FAST Doing Deals

Gary Price has a brief roundup of some recent Fast Search & Transfer enterprise search deals. FAST has become the de facto enterprise search platform for top-tier IYPs, verticals and newspaper sites. Of specific interest is the reported deal with…

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Looking Back, Forging Ahead

CNET and Search Engine Watch round up the top Web and search stories of 2005 in their respective editorial opinions. It's interesting stuff to reflect upon. In many ways, 2005 reestablished the "credibility" of the Internet and the efficacy of…

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Hitwise: Google’s Share Growing

Hitwise recently published a rep report ort ("research note") that tracks holiday shopping trends and search market share, among several other things. The company found: In the category it calls "search engines & directories sites," Google, Yahoo! and MSN accounted…

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