Yahoo Answers Thrives as Google Answers Dies
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Google has canned its Google Answers program, which was the first major search operated question &#038; answer service. Simply enough, Googlers would rather use the Google search engine to find answers to their questions, or turn to social question &#038; answer services which are thriving due to their active member base. Enter Yahoo Answers. In about [...]
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Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) evidently has decided that making a new ally is good way to parry the threat from Google (Nasdaq: GOOG). The company announced yesterday that it is joining
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Blogger is now surprisingly cool  I have had a love hate relation with Googleâs Blogger service. I started blogging with it. It just stopped working for me one day and I moved on. But since then I have had minor brushes with the updates that Google added with time and it ...
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The new search-engine technology is meant to rival Google. Also: Reebok unveils a new version of the Pump & hellip;.  PeopleSoft still won't settle for Oracle's bid & hellip;. and more.
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GuruNet Spins Off A Reference Driven Search Engine  GuruNet Corporation today announced the release of Answers.com, a site-and-software combination providing instant reference answers rather than lists of search engine links. GuruNet Corporation, through its Answers.com site, plans to generate revenues from ads placed alongside its topic entries, rather than ...
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Don't bury AOL. It's not dead yet.
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Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Google - Paid inclusion? - Gbrowser - The Google Browser - Directory - Linkfarm, Where Exactly Is the Difference? - How Fair Is the Link Popularity Algorithm? - Ask Jeeves & Citysearch Partnership Goes Live - Pay Per Click Shopping Sites - Microsoft Using Doorway Pages
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A recent ComScore study showed that in 2006 International usage of Google grew 13%, projecting it to the #2 spot in the Top Global Web Properties list, nudged between Microsoft and Yahoo, which each grew by 5%. The ranking were judged by Total Unique Visitors in 2006, not page views or usage, if so, we&#8217;d probably [...]
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Yahoo! has more questions than exclamation marks.
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Over at Search Engine Watch Forums, a member asks about Ask.com&#8217;s Sponsored Listings and the quality of traffic coming from them. Seems that results are ranging based upon quality of the keywords chosen and campaign targeting, here are some of the responses in the mix: We get decent results from Ask. However, it takes some work. You [...]
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Q falls out with A Google has decided to close its answers service after four years in operation.â¦
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Is Microsoft-served ads slowing down Web sites? Plus, what is Ask erasing, and what are the others keeping? And a 'Knight Rider' comeback and more.
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Portal tries out feature for its popular Yahoo Answers search engine.
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Google has decided to pull the plug on Google Answers, which allowed people to pose questions that researchers answered for a fee.
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Q: What are the top 10 most popular Web sites? _ Anne Vari  A: Mark my words, Anne: This Internet thing will never last. It's a fad.
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Also: When iPods die. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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Yes, you can come back to Google.