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The Year In Search - Web Search 2005
The Year In Search - About Web Search October 2005

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Lots more search engines were profiled in October 2005, including Podscope, Zabasearch, MSN Search, MyStanky, and Yahoo Reference Search. We also had an interview with Jill Whalen and looked at how to find public records online.

Read about the first ever search engine wedding proposal, search for audio and video with SingingFish, manage your pay per click advertising program, and have some Halloween fun with the October Scavenger Hunt.

Dylan Thomas read his poetry online, AOL buys Weblogs, find low gas prices on the Web, Google Reader was released, more Web searches than ever before were accomplished, and Chris Pirillo and I had a chat about gada.be.

Yahoo adds blog search, find people online, Google added Google.org, Yahoo added a really good podcast search, and MC Hammer visited Google (no kidding).

We peeked into the world of travel search engines, the table of contents for the 100 Search Engines in 100 Days started filling up, the word of the day was hidden text, search Yahoo with the Yahoo Cheat Sheet, and read about Jill Whalen's Top Ten Tips to the Top of the Search Engines.

And even more search engines were profiled, including Lycos, Isohunt, AlltheWeb,ZapMeta, Pretrieve, Turbo10.

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