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Ask Jeeves now has a blog with JeevesGuy unmasked! Also via WMW:
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Web search provider Ask Jeeves Inc. (Nasdaq:ASKJ - news) on Thursday posted sharply higher profit and revenue, helped by strong Web search advertising and an acquisition last year that roughly doubled its size. Oakland, California-based Ask Jeeves said net income from continuing operations rose to $17.1 million, or 25 cents per share, from $7.6 million, or 13 cents. Revenue nearly tripled to $86.1 million from $31.8 million.

Google has added a link to Google Local on it’s home page with the suggestion of new features coming up.

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As the browser wars continue, I think we can now rule out one. Internet Explorer on a Mac should be considered dead. Why? If you run IE on a Mac and load www.msn.com you will get a horribly rendered site. Seeing as this is Microsoft’s browser and a Microsoft site, I would think they’d work together, but they don’t. This leads me to believe that they no longer care about IE on a Mac and maybe we shouldn’t either.

It’s also good to note that on June 13th, 2003, Microsoft stopped developing the browser for Mac. Any lingering users should seriously consider switching to Safari, Firefox, or one of the many other choices.

Tags: microsoft, ie, apple, mac, internet explorer

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The first voting script for the Business Blogging Awards apparently had some issues, so a new voting system is in place and any votes prior to today have been scrapped.

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MercuryNews.com ran a short article today announcing that Yahoo is launching a new search tool (Y!Q tool). Yahoo boasts that it’s the first contextual search technology that analyzes the contents of the Web page you’re viewing and then gives you a list of search results directly related to what you’re reading. You can test it out on Yahoo News

Tags: Yahoo, Y!Q, Search Engine, Search

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It’s official, Google has launched a Referral Program that pays $20 for every advertiser or publisher you refer.

Breakdown at SEO Book and InsideGoogle

Tags: Google, Affiliate

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Matthew@MSN notes that MSN Shopping Beta. “It‚Äôs another much cleaner interface over the predecessor and quite like Windows Marketplace.”

msnsearch WebLog also notes that Newsbot has been Revamped.
What’s new:
* More stories are featured at the top of the page
* A page listing all of the news publishers has been added
* A ‘similar coverage’ feature groups instances of a story picked up by multiple news sources allowing the reader to easily select which full version to view
* The user interface is now intergrated with the new MSN Search

Tags: MSN, Search, MSN Shopping, Newsbot

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DMNews.com reports Google profits increased sevenfold in the fourth quarter of 2004. AdSense generated $490 million, or 48 percent of total revenue, up 92 percent over last year.

“Google had an exceptional quarter,” CEO Eric Schmidt said. “Revenue and profits increased significantly, our execution was solid across the company and most importantly, our relationship with our users, partners and advertisers became even stronger.”

Tags: Google

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Thomas is the fellow who re-designed this blog and is also our design-savvy SEO. He’s busting at the seams to share his enthusiasm about search so here you go:

Netscape 8 is almost a reality. A beta, along with a re-design of Netscape.com, should be out February 17th. The new Netscape has the rendering engine of Firefox and Internet Explorer all in one browser. They are also working with security companies to get blacklists of sites that contain spyware, scams and other issues. With that information Netscape can warn it’s users before their computer becomes affected. Those are just two of the new features that are planed for the new Netscape 8.

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