LookSmart to be Delisted from NASDAQ

Late yesterday, LookSmart reported that they received a delisting notice from NASDAQ staff on October 13. Stating that shares in the search company had failed to remain above the $1.00 level, NASDAQ began the process of removing LookSmart from its stock-board under...

Don’t Buy Junk.com

For budding Internet entrepreneurs Andrew Holt and Rishi Khaitan, building a better mousetrap was the key component in their vision of the upstart comparison search engine dontbuyjunk.com. Behind the sparse front page is a wealth of products, information and consumer...

LookAhead – Dynamic Site Search and Navigation

SurfWax’s Site-Specific Search Tool SurfWax, a Menlo Park based software developer, has introduced an anticipatory onsite search tool known as LookAhead that makes looking for and finding information on most websites much simpler. Ask yourself a question. How...

Last Week was More Interesting than it Seemed

This was a truly interesting week. On top of the Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose, the past five days provided search marketers a front-row view of international economic development, the growth of a media empire, the internal disruptive influence of...

Study Shows Search Engine Variety

A study of search results displayed at the four major search engines shows that each engine is increasingly producing results that differ from the other engines. In other words, searchers can be reasonably confident that Google, Yahoo, MSN or Ask Jeeves will, more...