Archive for July, 2006

The click fraud issue first started to come to light around 2004. Click fraud can take many shapes, but is most egregious when unscrupulous types create programs to systematically click on paid listings in order to profit from the revenue created by participating in publisher programs like Google's Adsense and Yahoo's YPN.
While […]

This one is for all the Firefox browser enhancers out there…
Firefox has this neat feature to enable you to add terms that trigger searches. In this case you can create one for Snap that is accessible from anywhere in your browsing experience all from within the location bar of your Firefox browser.
Here is how…
1. Go […]

Thats my desk (the 'empty' one in the middle)… I am always out and about in the offices…
Hello, my name is Mike Agostino and I recently joined Snap as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
First, what’s a CTO do? Typically a big-company CTO drives technology and product strategy by combining an in-depth understanding of technology trends […]

…though not necessarily in that order.
This is going to be my first post on our new blog so I'll keep it short…also because I just got back from vacation and I'm a bit swamped.
One of the fun things to do in life since Al Gore invented the internet (or did he?) is to see what […]

This morning we released an updated version of Snap.com which included the following new or changed features:

Some small performance improvements on the backend (more to come later this week);
Added a new open position for a Web Developer on our Careers page;
New version of Snap's Internet Explorer Plugin with new features - Download it here (IE […]

SNAP.COM ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF
“THE OTHER WAY TO LAUNCH” CONTEST
PASADENA, CA – July 6, 2006 – Snap.com, a new search engine that provides users with a unique and more efficient way to view and interact with search results, today announced GeekWorks Unlimited as the winners of its “The Other Way to Launch” contest and will receive […]

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This is the post you all have been waiting for: “The other way to Launch” contest winner has been selected and the $5000 prize has been awarded! Before we announce the winner, we wanted to share a bit about the great response and how we selected a winner.
The response was awe-inspiring: over 30,000 of you […]

When we came up with the “Snap Other Way to Launch Contest” two months ago, it was new territory for me in many ways: I’d never actively participated in the Blogosphere, I’d never asked my potential customers to help solve one of my key business problems, and I had never “abdicated” control to […]

Today we released an updated version of Snap which included the following new or changed features:
Added graphics and text to promote our IE and Firefox plugins. These little tools, also found here, help make Snap instantly accessible when you want to search;
Removed a link from the homepage for a survey that had ended. Thanks to […]