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Search Companies Energetically Seeking Electricity
The Wall Street Journal reports that the search companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask and possibly Google are looking to find cheap electricity to power all the computers and…
How Google Is Killing The Internet
Seth Jayson has written an interesting piece “How Google is killing the internet” over at The Motley Fool. It’s a lengthy analysis…
MSN Windows Live Launches News & Local Live Answers
The MSN Search blog announced that MSN Search now supports news specific and local specific “live answers.” What that means is if…
Hitwise: Google Nearing 60% Of Queries In US
Just over a week ago, NetRatings said Google went over the 50 percent mark in powering web searches in the US. New…
New Search Patents: June 8, 2006 – Stanford updates Pagerank Patent
The patent for pagerank has been updated, Hewlett-Packard introduces advanced searching options for searchers, IBM patents a query translation server to help…
Yahoo MyWeb Gets New Look, Easier Browsing & Viewing Features
Yahoo's given its MyWeb bookmarking service a new look and new features, making it easier than before for people to find what…
New Search Patent Applications: June 5, 2006 – Taking Care of Web Decay, Dead Links, and Parked Domains
Yahoo provides an XML based bid management tool, and a way to maintain a persistent link to dynamic information between a browser…
Yahoo’s CEO Terry Semel’s Salary Adjusted To One Dollar
Bloomberg reports that Yahoo CEO Terry Semel will soon be earning a base salary of $1 per year. The rest of his…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: June 5, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
MSN adLab Launches With a Variety of Keyword Tools
MSN first announced adLab back in January, but it has now been made available to everyone (in beta) with a wide variety…
Search Headlines & Links: May 30, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Daily SearchCast, May 30, 2006: Ask’s Memorial Day Link, About Links From Google, WikiMapia, Political Google, Google Powered TV Guide & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Ask, the only major search engine that had a special Memorial Day homepage, a quick heads up on…
Calacanis Dings AOL Search
Jason Calacanis has written a forthright piece on the importance of fixing AOL search. He’s examined Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL Search,…
Yahoo Issues Late May 2006 Weather Report
Yahoo! announced late yesterday that they have begun an update to their Web Search index. You can expect some changes to your…
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…
New Search Patents: May 25, 2006 – Yahoo Units and Microsoft Redundancy Filters
New patents from this week from Yahoo on indexing by concepts and on uses of scripts on different computers to share data…
Google & Dell Partner: Google Software To Be Installed On Dell PCs
The Wall Street Journal reports that Dell will be installing Google software on “millions of Dell personal computers.” That means software like…
eBay & Yahoo Partner On Graphical Ads, Other Areas
Everyone is talking about the eBay & Yahoo partnership, where Yahoo will be eBay’s exclusive provider of graphical ads and Yahoo will…
“Add To My Yahoo” Feature Removed From Yahoo SERPs
I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Yahoo seems to have removed the “Add To My Yahoo” button from the search…
Yahoo’s Annual Meeting Of Stockholders Tomorrow At 1PM (EST)
Yahoo is hosting the Annual Meeting Of Stockholders tomorrow at 1pm (EST). You can enroll for the meeting by clicking here and…
Google Behind Others On Catching TechMeme’s New Name
SEOMoz reports that Google has been having issues ranking and indexing TechMeme.com, the new name for TechMemorandum. Yesterday, Google did not rank…
Windows Live Local Adds Traffic and Sharing
Yesterday some people spotted Microsofts roll out of aerial photography in the UK (and Canada). That was part of a set of…
New Search Patent Applications: May 23, 2006 – Yahoo Wallets, Microsoft Answers, and Google Phrases
A number of patent applications published last week proved intriguing. The US Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO) filings offered us additions to…
New Tool Scandoo Scans for Scumware in Search Results
The reports of hackers poisoning search results by optimizing landing pages that included links to viruses, spyware and other malware alarmed many…
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