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Wednesday, January 29, 2003
 

ilectric.com


Paul_UK reported a really cool find in this Spider Food Forums thread. Paul found ilectric.com http://ilectric.com/ . The site is a multi-search platform containing a metasearch, directory, news search and search engine selector. Normally nothing special.

However, if you click on the URL at the bottom of each listing you get the Whois and Alexa traffic graph for that site! This is very handy for researching the competition.
9:08:12 AM    

Yahoo Winning Back Market Share?


OneStat.com reports that Yahoo has gained back a bit of search market share in the last two months in this press release. "Yahoo's global usage share has risen from 20.6 percent to 22.1 percent the last 2 months."
6:40:35 AM    

Yahoo Hires Overture Exec


Yahoo has hired a key executive away from Overture according to news reports. Yahoo is in the process of buying Inktomi and this hiring will assist Yahoo with paid inclusion programs for search.
5:44:26 AM    


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