The Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association (www.dfwsem.org) announced on October 11 that it invites all Webmasters and interactive marketers for a discussion on growing one’s business using search engine optimization and pay-per-click advertising programs with the leading search engine marketing authors and speakers Shari Thurow and Catherine Seda.
Scientific Software, Inc. (www.scisw.com), a developer of enterprise content management, business process management and compliance solutions, announced on October 12 the launch of a new federated search engine for the desktop. Scientific Software FUSION Search (www.scisw.com/products/fusion) provides database-driven searches across multiple content sources via a single query, and is designed to help users search disparate content such as emails and other data they generate.
123Bharath.com (www.123bharath.com) announced on October 11 that the scheduled meeting of the search engine giant Google's founders with the Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh has been called off. A Government spokesperson said that Sergey Brin and Larry Page were to meet the Prime Minister in the evening of October 11, but the meeting has been called off.
di-ve.com (www.di-ve.com) announced on October 12 that each week it will feature the Top 10 Keywords on Search Malta (www.searchmalta.com), Malta's premier search engine for local websites. According to di-ve.com, the Top 10 Keywords on Search Malta from October 4 to October 11 and the most popular words entered in the Search Malta search box, which are a good indication of the most popular types of searches carried out by Search Malta users, are: “property”, “computer”, “real estate”, “computers”, “chat”, “sex”, “etc”, “voices”, “cars”, and “mepa”.
EarthLink (www.earthlink.net), an Internet service provider, announced on October 8 the launch of its anti-phishing site application, ScamBlocker. The free browser-based toolbar provides complete real-time protection from online fraud and identity theft. EarthLink toolbar comes equipped with a Google-powered search engine as well as Pop-Up Blocker and SpyAudit.
Dallas, Texas-based KaZaZZ! (http://kazazz.com), a media and technology company that operates several search and advertising related properties including the general search engine KaZaZZ!, the women’s search engine WaZaZZ!, the men’s search engine MaZaZZ!, and the contextual link exchange network KaZaZZ.net, announced on October 9 that Intelli-Match (Mind Reader), the innovative new search technology developed by KaZaZZ!, is taking the search consumer experience to a new level excellence by extending search possibilities with upfront personalized search suggestions. Intelli-Match (Mind Reader) gauges consumer’s search interests based on their previous search patterns and provides related search suggestions within the Mind Reader Search Box during subsequent visits to KaZaZZ!. To keep pace with consumer's changing search interests, the new technology continuously updates itself to match the consumer’s new search interests. To avoid privacy concerns, the Intelli-Match (Mind Reader) search technology has been designed to work without storing any personal search information within its databases.
TrafficMentor (www.trafficmentorseo.com), the Search Engine Marketing Experts, officially announced on October 11 that they are renaming their firm Telic Media. TrafficMentor has changed its name because there was confusion between the company and a multi-level marketing firm that refused to part with the trafficmentor.com domain. TrafficMentor claimed that in the search for a new identity, it wanted a name that signalled its core values.
The Swiss-based specialized software and service company ardaba.com AG (www.ardaba.com) announced on October 7 the launch of JobWindow.com (www.jobwindow.com), a topic search engine focused on jobs in Europe. The site enables simple, easy and fast access to thousands of job offers published on the Internet. From the very beginning, more then 120 000 job offers Europe-wide are accessible at www.jobwindow.com.
SiliconValley.com (www.siliconvalley.com) announced on October 8 that George Hill, a highly paid programmer and search engine AltaVista's coder, has become Mr. Mom.
The Associated Press (www.ap.org) announced on October 8 that the search engine giant Google (www.google.com) has identified a man who died in an apparent hit-and-run accident 11 years ago in a small town outside Yakima, Washington – something that law enforcement officials and their computer tools have failed to do. Detective Pat Ditter of the Washington State Patrol searched with Google for about a week before identifying the victim as David Glen Lewis, 39, who died 1606 miles from his home in Amarillo, Texas, in 1993.
