Search engines.
Ask Recognizing Memorial Day
The Ask homepage has recognized Memorial Day with an image and link to customized search results. While Memorial Day is specifically an American holiday, Thanksgiving is also specifically…
Search Forums Roundup: May 26, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…
NetRatings: Google Tops 50 Percent Mark In US Web Searches
New stats (PDF) out from NetRatings show Google now handles half the web searches in the United States: Search Engine April 2005…
Google AdsBot Now Coming To Assess Your Landing Pages, Will Impact Your AdRank
Google's rolling out a new system where ad landing pages will be automatically spidered by a new AdsBot. Not participating in the…
Phil Bradley Our New Searching Correspondent; Jennifer Slegg Picks Up Paid Search Coverage
Search Engine Watch has always had two main audiences: search marketers and searchers. We want marketers to understand how to reach an…
Google Rankings Depend On Data Center, Geographic Location & Personalization
Aaron Wall has a nice write up on the different ways one searcher can see one set up results, compared to a…
Search Engines Using Search Ads To Promote Themselves
In the past week or so, I have been reporting on the different ways search engines use search ads to promote their…
Search Headlines & Links: May 23, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Search Headlines & Links: May 22, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted yesterday to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Show Me More Pictures Like This One…
Image search can be frustrating, because search engines can’t “see” pictures in the same way that they can “read” text—indeed, image search…
Searching for Images by Similarity
Searching for pictures needn't take a thousand words. An experimental search engine helps you find images based on colors, textures or characteristics…
Search Forums Roundup: May 19, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…
The New Online Library of Alexandria
Most of the information created prior to the advent of the web is still in printed form. Fortunately, a number of groups…
Building the Universal Library
What will it take for Google or another search engine to truly assemble a library of all of the world's information? A…
Search Headlines & Links: May 17, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Get Your SEW Subscribed Link For Google & Resources On Making Them
Doing some searching over at Google and want to keep up on the latest search news? Now you can, direct from us.…
GenieKnows Local Search
Last week Canadian-based search engine GenieKnows.com rolled out a local search beta (currently only available in the US). It offers dynamic maps,…
Search Headlines & Links: May 16, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted yesterday to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Ask Binoculars Improving Search Results?
On its surface, the Binoculars feature in search results at Ask.com seems to only provide a preview of a page that you…
Citysearch: Act II
Citysearch is a little like a house that was built in the country and now the suburbs have grown up around it.…
Search Headlines & Links: May 15, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Search Headlines & Links: May 12, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Search Forums Roundup: May 12, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…
Microsoft Fires Back at Google Over IE7 Complaint
News.com reports that Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, feels Google is asking for special treatment with the whole controversy on IE7 defaulting the…
5% Of Search Results Lead To “Dangerous Sites”
Andy Beal reports on a Wall Street Journal article that claims 9% of paid search ads lead to “dangerous sites.” Three-percent of…
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