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Hitwise Search Engine Ratings: May 2005
May 2005 Hitwise ratings for search engines, showing which search engines are most popular, based on visits.
Search Forums Roundup: June 24, 2005
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…
Rating Search Engines By Playing Trivial Pursuit
We’ve written many times about how search engines are moving to presenting direct answers in response to some questions. Trivia Stump Smart…
Time’s Top 50 Sites & Search In Class Of Its Own
Time magazine is out with their annual list of the 50 “Coolest” web sites. Instead of including resources and tools from the…
Improving Image Search With User Rankings
John Battelle points at a post from Thomas Hawk where he argues that image search would be improved through tagging but more…
MSN Adds Direct Answers With Sports Info
MSN Search is now providing “direct answers” at the top of web results pages with scores, brief bios, stats for baseball and…
MSN Search Gets Neural Net/RankNet Technology & (Potentially) Awesome New Search Commands
Local, Relevance, and Japan! from the MSN Search WebLog talks about MSN Search using a new relevancy ranking system based on "Neural…
Google Maps Now Offering Satellite Imagery In Lots Of Places
OK, it looks like more than the US and UK now have satellite images in Google Maps. Here’s detailed views of Rome,…
MSN Opens Local Search & Aerial Mapping
MSN Search has just released a local search tool (beta) for the U.S. MSN Local Search is accessible via a link on…
MSN Censorship & Revisiting The Need For Better Disclosure
Chinese target Web’s ‘prohibited language’ from the Associated Press looks at how those in China wishing to blog on MSN’s new MSN…
Search Marketing Isn’t Just Math & Machines
Search is all about math, right? Throw everything into a black box, let the ad management systems run, and you can forget…
MSN Shopping Partners With PriceGrabber
We wrote in March about MSN beta testing a new shopping search engine. That public beta has since closed. When the improved…
Should Google Sitemaps Take Pings? How About More General Compatibility Generally?
Jeremy Zawodny says he’s scratching his head over the new Google Sitemaps system and wondering why Google doesn’t adopt a ping-based page…
Israel Will Soon Say Shalom to Google, Office in the Works
Haaretz, a leading Israeli newspaper, reports that Google will open an office in Israel soon and perhaps expand its existing Hebrew-language Google…
Yahoo Feed Search & Web Search Feeds Update
Last September, my Yahoo, How About A Feed Search Tab? article wished for Yahoo to make it easier for people to find…
Digimarc Desktop Image Search Beta Opens
Not happy with the image search capabilities of your existing desktop search application? A new free beta of Digimarc Image Search software…
A Google Ad Exchange Service? Domains Suggest It Might Happen
The Google Exchange from MarketWatch looks at the possibility of Google offering some type of advertising exchange service. In other words, beyond…
MSN Virtual Earth To Take On Google Earth
Microsoft sends news today that founder Bill Gates has announced a MSN Virtual Earth service is to debut in the summer. The…
Reactions To My Google Personalized Home Page
So the My Google service — ahem, Google Personalized Home Page — is now out. What’s being said? Here’s a round-up of…
Google Launches Personalized Home Page
Google has unveiled a new service that allows people to consolidate various Google features they use, ranging from web search to email,…
Google Launches “My Google” Style Feature
Note: A more complete story from Search Engine Watch about the new service is now here: Google Launches Personalized Home Page Google…
Yahoo Gains RSS Feeds For Web Search & Discovering Auto-Discovery
Yahoo is now the second major search engine to provide RSS feeds for web search, after MSN debuted them in January. RSS…
RustySearch Search Relevancy Challenge: Everyone’s Pretty Average, So Far
Barry Schwartz’s Search Engine Relevancy Challenge is still going strong at RustySearch. How’s it going so far? He’s had 5,000 rated search…
New Estimate Puts Web Size At 11.5 Billion Pages & Compares Search Engine Coverage
It has been ages since I’ve seen anyone try to estimate the size of the web. Now a new paper puts it…
Don’t Like Google? Declare Your Site A Google Free Zone!
It’s not unusual to hear people express all types of gripes about Google, but it is extremely rare for someone to actually…
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