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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…

By Barry Schwartz · 13 Jun 2006

Industry

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…

By Phil Bradley · 12 Jun 2006

Industry

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…

By Barry Schwartz · 09 Jun 2006

Analytics

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 08 Jun 2006

Industry

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…

By Bill Slawski · 08 Jun 2006

Industry

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 05 Jun 2006

Industry

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…

By Bill Slawski · 05 Jun 2006

Industry

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…

By Barry Schwartz · 05 Jun 2006

Industry

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.

By Chris Sherman · 04 Jun 2006

Industry

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…

By Jennifer Slegg · 01 Jun 2006

Industry

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…

By Detlev Johnson · 30 May 2006

Industry

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…

By Detlev Johnson · 30 May 2006

Industry

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,…

By Phil Bradley · 30 May 2006

Industry

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…

By Detlev Johnson · 30 May 2006

Industry

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:…

By rumo · 26 May 2006

Analytics

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 26 May 2006

Industry

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…

By Bill Slawski · 25 May 2006

Industry

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…

By Barry Schwartz · 25 May 2006

Industry

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…

By Barry Schwartz · 25 May 2006

Industry

“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…

By Barry Schwartz · 25 May 2006

Industry

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…

By Barry Schwartz · 24 May 2006

Industry

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…

By Barry Schwartz · 24 May 2006

Industry

Windows Live Local Adds Traffic and Sharing

Yesterday some people spotted Microsoft’s roll out of aerial photography in the UK (and Canada). That was part of a set of…

By Greg Sterling · 24 May 2006

Industry

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…

By Bill Slawski · 23 May 2006

Industry

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…

By rumo · 23 May 2006

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