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What Is Google’s Insights For Search Good For?
August 13th, 2008
After the success of Google Trends, the search giant has now launched a new tool, called ‘Google Insights For Search‘. This tool is similar to Trends, but shows rising searches in relation to other terms, geographic location and time periods. Read the rest of this entry »
Live Webmaster Tools Updates But Still Lags Behind
August 12th, 2008
The Microsoft Live Search Webmaster Center has been brought out of beta, last week, along with the release of a few new updates. Webmasters will now be able to better understand the crawling and indexing methods used by Live Search. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Search Customisations Made More Transparent
August 4th, 2008
In their continued efforts to improve the search experience for the users, Google recently added new features to their Web Search that will allow customers to realise how their search results are customised, thus making the process more transparent. Read the rest of this entry »
Will Google Search Look Like Digg Once Users Vote On SERPs?
July 24th, 2008
Google has been bucket testing a new interface on some randomly selected users. Recently a screen shot of the new interface along with a video showing the new search features was screened. This interface has a very Digg-like look and feel. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Improves Indexing And Crawling Of Flash Files
July 11th, 2008
For some time now, Google has been working to improve the indexing of Flash files. They have now released some information about the new algorithm they have developed by integrating Adobe’s Flash Player Technology for this purpose. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Plays Second Fiddle To CNN
June 20th, 2008
A year ago the news network CNN, launched a comprehensive news site, CNN.com. It has now come to light that in just one year, they have beaten the search market leader, where news is concerned. This information was revealed during a survey, which was conducted by Google’s subsidiary DoubleClick. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Remains Undisputed Market Leader
June 10th, 2008
A report released by comScore, this weeks found flthat Google has retained its position as the leader among search engines in the UK. Read the rest of this entry »
Search And Give To Charity Through Microsoft
June 6th, 2008
Last year, Microsoft launched a programme through which money would be donated to certain charities for every search conducted through their search engine. The project was a great success, in that over $250,000 were donated to over 20,000 charitable organizations. Read the rest of this entry »
First Page Listings On Google Even More Important
June 2nd, 2008
A study conducted by Jupiter Research in April 2008, proves quite conclusively that the number of users who looked at only the first few results or the first page of search engine results increased between 2002 and 2008, while those looking at the second, third or further pages reduced in number. Read the rest of this entry »
Microsoft Search Offers Cash For Search, Again
May 23rd, 2008
Microsoft has decided to leave no stone unturned in the race to improve its position in the search marketing field. During the company’s annual digital ad conference, on Wednesday, it was announced that Microsoft would pay cash to U.S.-based customers for shopping on the new Live Search Cashback site. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo! Glue Mimics Ask Universal Search
May 12th, 2008
Yahoo! India has launched a new feature last week known as ‘Glue’ pages. They are special pages with attached visual inputs alongside the regular search results, that show up for specific types of searches. Read the rest of this entry »
Carrefour Banned On Google China
May 2nd, 2008
During the Olympic torch relay in France, a wheelchair-bound Chinese participant was attacked by pro-Tibet protesters. To add insult to injury, France has granted honorary citizenship to the Dalai Lama, who is the head of the Tibetan Buddhists, who have been agitating against the Chinese Government. These events have apparently not gone down well with both, the Chinese public and government. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Announces VisualRank For Image Search
May 1st, 2008
Google researchers, Shumeet Baluja and Yushi Jing, presented a paper titled ‘PageRank for product image search’ at the international World Wide Web Conference held in Beijing last week. They say that their new technology will help improve image search results, and these results will be more relevant to customer needs. Read the rest of this entry »
Ask.com Concedes Defeat, Realigns To Target Women
March 6th, 2008
In what seems to be more of a cruel joke than a factual statement, the Associated Press reported yesterday that Ask.com was laying off 40 employees and realigning itself as a women’s site. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo! Open Search Brings New Meaning To Universal Search
February 26th, 2008
Having realised that they cannot compete with Google on the basis of algorithmic quality any more, Yahoo! have adopted a new approach to search - openness. Yahoo! Open Search was officially announced yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
False Reports About Yahoo! Blocking Googlebot On del.icio.us
February 21st, 2008
A recent post on web developer Colin Cochrane’s that got more attention than it deserved on Sphinn and the SitePro newsletter mistakenly claims that Yahoo! has decided to play hardball with the competition. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Searches Become More Focused
February 7th, 2008
Google Analytics evangelist, Avinash Kaushik recently organized a ‘by invitation-only’ event at Google’s Atlanta office. Brian Ussery of Beu Blog reports that towards the end of the meeting Kaushik gave a presentation based on some facts and figures to the participants. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Stirs Up Yet Another Linking Debate
January 31st, 2008
It has been widely believed so far that links from a .edu domain are worth more in Google’s eyes than links from .com, .net and .org etc. domains. However, John Mueller, a Webmaster Trends Analyst from Google Europe indicated that this might not actually be the case. Read the rest of this entry »
Yahoo! To Downsize Employees And Egos
January 30th, 2008
No one’s favourite search engine, Yahoo! announced its third quarter results on Wednesday, along with official notice that they will be laying off 1,000 employees. The road ahead is definitely rocky for the once-darling of the Internet economy. Read the rest of this entry »
Del.icio.us Flavours Yahoo! Search Results
January 24th, 2008
Yahoo! has just started testing the efficacy of integrating bookmarks and tags generated by its subsidiary, del.icio.us in the organic listings on search results pages. Read the rest of this entry »
