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Google Scholar Adds Legal Search for U.S. Federal and State Courts
Google Scholar is adding legal search to its offerings. This enables anyone to search the full texts of legal opinions given in U.S. federal…
Yahoo Among Profiters From Senate Investigated $1.4 Billion ‘Web Scam’
The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation are investigating loyalty programs from companies including Vertrue, Webloyalty, and Affinion that generated $1.4 billion…
FacteryLabs Launch FactRank Engine
The search industry has seen a lot of new engines developed moving towards a diversity of specific needs. Recently, “real time” search has been…
Yahoo Dropping Go Mobile January 12
Yahoo will be stopping support for Go January 12 and is telling people to migrate to m.yahoo.com – their mobile portal, Cnet noted. As…
Google To Preview Chrome OS Thursday, Launch In New Year
Google has announced they will hold a preview of the Chrome OS this Thursday and the product will launch in the new year, according…
Bing and Google Both Gain Half Point in October 2009 comScore Rankings
comScore has released their search market share rankings for October 2009 and the news is good for both Google and Bing – they both…
Google Launches ‘Image Swirl’ Into Labs
Google is unveiling a new type of image search they’re calling “Image Swirl.” It’s available as a limited preview in Google Labs. You can…
Google Replaces Some URLs with Site Hierarchies in Search Results
In Google’s search results, they’ve always included the URL to the link associated with a given result. The URL is set in green text…
Shaking My Head at Mark Cuban…
Mark Cuban has suggested that Microsoft simply pay sites to be removed from the Google index. This is his big idea to even the…
adCenter Allows Bidding for MSN Tech & Gadgets, Hotmail
adCenter is enabling the ability to bid specifically for two Microsoft entities: the MSN Tech & Gadgets portal and the popular web-based email, Hotmail.…