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Google's New "Caffeine" Search
Google recently announced that they're testing the 'next-generation infrastructure' for google.com... code named Caffeine.
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Hurting Not Helping in Personalized Search Public Relations
People are treating Google like their most trusted friend. Should they be? Eric Schmidt answers.
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A Busy Year for Google's Legal Team?
3 Google executives sentenced to suspended 6 month sentences. Antitrust investigation in Brussels. Xerox suing. Yeah, they'll be busy.
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Yahoo!, Powered by Bing - Imminent
The Wall Street Journal noted today that both Yahoo! and Bing recently posted to the effect that Yahoo! search results should be powered by Bing this week some time.
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FindWhat Sues Overture
FindWhat.com tries to get the USPTO to declare Overture's (formerly GoTo.com) pay per click patent (Patent '361) invalid.
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Google's Eric Schmidt Talks About the Future of Search
Eric Schmidt answers questions on topics ranging from going public to SEO to not being like Yahoo!. It's Eric Schmidt, so you have to read it.
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LookSmart Acquires WiseNut
LookSmart has always been more than just a web directory. They provide their search results to MSN Search. Today they announced that they're acquiring WiseNut, a newcomer in the search space.
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AskJeeves Launches Teoma
AskJeeves launches Teoma claiming results superior to Google search results.
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Overture Sues Google Over Paid Search Patent Violations
Overture is suing Google claiming that Google is violating Overture patents in its paid advertising program.
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Great NYT Article on Google
A must-read article on the history and current prospects for Google.
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Everyone Loves Google This Week, Especially the German Government
A slew of articles about Google this week. Here's a round-up.
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The Yahoo Yodeler Settles His Lawsuit; Overture Expands; Google Copyright Issues
On a lighter note, Yahoo! has settled with the cowboy yodeler who we all recognize.
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dotUS Updated, InfoSpace Using Fast Search, Ask Jeeves Squeaking Along
dotUS will be opened up to U.S. citizens and businesses, after years in which the domain was reserved primarily for local governments, schools and libraries.
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Overture and Yahoo Extend Their Relationship, AOL Shaken
Ground shifts in the pay per click industry. Overture splitting with AOL? The future of LookSmart. Yahoo and Overture sign monumental deal.
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AOL Drops Overture, AOL Signs Up with Google, Overture Extends Deal with Yahoo!
Search engine news and articles covering AOL, Overture and Google. Today, AOL dropped Overture and saddled up with Google. Plus Yahoo! announced that it would extend its deal with Overture.
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Yahoo! and Google, AOL and Google, InfoSpace Launches Another Meta
Search engines news articles including speculation about the relationship between Yahoo and Google, AOL and Google, and news about InfoSpace.
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RealNames Closing, eBay and AOL Renegotiate, and LookSmart PR
Search engines news articles including news about eBay and AOL, LookSmart and InfoSpace, and the closing of RealNames.
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Netscape Goes Google
Another major company using Google for search results - Netscape Search.
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Yahoo! Getting a New Look?
Speculation about a new design for Yahoo's home page.
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More on LookSmart Pay Per Click, AOL-Microsoft Battle
More coverage of LookSmart's recent move to paid search and a story about the browser wars.
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AltaVista and Overture Renew their Vows
AltaVista and Overture renew their agreement for an additional year. Details.
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More on LookSmart, Court Backs AOL
LookSmart's move to push their directory members into a pay per click relationship is facing serious roadblocks, including a lawsuit.
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ICANN Changes, New Search Engine Inquira, Macromedia Releases Search Engine Kit, About.com Labor Lawsuit, More on Yahoo's New Look
ICANN changes, the startup Inquira, Yahoo's new look, the About.com labor lawsuit, and Macromedia's new Search Engine SDK.
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VeriSign Stops Unethical Marketing, Google IPO Prospects, and AllTheWeb.com Reaches 2 Billion
Search engines news articles covering VeriSign, Google, and AllTheWeb.com or Fast.
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FTC Instructs Search Engines to Make Paid Listings Clear and Conspicuous, ICANN Board of Directors Stops Elections, Microsoft and Overture Extend Agreement, the Teoma Toolbar, LookSmart Leadership Exodus, and a bit about Gator
News covering the recent FTC Report to the search engines, the change at ICANN, Microsoft and Overture agreement, LookSmart Board changes, and more.
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SEO Nightmares, News Services from Lycos, Google, and Yahoo, Virus Information, and the New Cooperative Effort Between AOL, MSN, and Yahoo
The new Lycos News service, the Google News service, and the Yahoo News service, as well as a new cooperative effort between AOL, MSN, and Yahoo to provide kid-friendly surfing.
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Search Engines Slow to Respond to FTC Warnings
The AP submitted a series of random querries to Alltheweb, AOL, AltaVista, AskJeeves, Google, Hotbot, Looksmart, Lycos, MSN, Overture, Netscape, and Yahoo! to determine whether or not they had made any changes to comply with the FTC warnings.
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AdAge Wades into FTC Story
AdAge has picked up the story about the FTC warnings to the major search engines.
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Yahoo!'s New Look, FTC Warnings to Search Engines
A follow-up to recent news about the FTC report to the search engines demanding that they separate paid from organic search results more obviously.
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Yahoo! Gets a New Look
Yahoo! launched it's new look last night! If you're still setting your browser at 640x480, you'll need to change your settings. That's good news for everyone, as it will eventually enable designers more flexibility.
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Google Partners with Ask Jeeves and The FTC Goes After the Major Search Engines
Info about the new partnership between Google and Ask Jeeves, and follow-up information on the changes being made at the major search engines as a result of the FTC warnings.
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AOL Goes Google
Google results are finally showing up as the search results on AOL. Winning on Google has been the most important win for generating website traffic for about a year now. It just got a lot more important.
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SEC Investigates AOL, FTC Continues Investigating VeriSign
All has been calm on the search engine front for the past few days, unless you consider that the SEC is investigating AOL, and the FTC is digging deeper into VeriSign's marketing practices.
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InfoSpace Goes Google
Beginning today, Google search results will appear on MetaCrawler, and by the end of the month will appear across InfoSpace's network of meta search engines, including Excite, Dogpile, WebCrawler, MetaCrawler, and InfoSpace.
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Fast Implements Macromedia SDK
Fast/AllTheWeb.com is the first major search engine to implement the Macromedia Software Developers Kit (SDK), which enables search engines to index the content of flash files.
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Fast Named in Privacy Violation Lawsuit with DoubleClick
DoubleClick and Fast/AllTheWeb.com are named together in a complaint filed with the Norweigan government for violating the privacy of visitors to the Fast/AllTheWeb.com website.
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Yahoo! Organic Search is Google
Yesterday Yahoo! began transitioning to a completely new search method. Now Yahoo! searches yield a mixture of Google listing and Overture paid listings.
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Inktomi Unveils Web Search 9
The gist of the announcement was that Inktomi has dramatically improved its product, exceeding the competition (i.e., Google, though not specifically named) in relevance, freshness, and index size.
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AltaVista Unveils New Look and Features
AltaVista unveiled a new design and many new features, one of which is AltaVista Search Trends, where you can see the most popular searches on AltaVista.
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Google Growing - Pains and Plans
Google is updating itself right now. It does this about once a month. Webmasters who pay attention to search engine optimization issues are watching with baited breath.
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JoeAnt Creates a New Volunteer Culture
Interview with JoeAnt website directory founding editor explores JoeAnt's history, culture, and technology.
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Microsoft Aims at the Search Engine Marketplace, Google Signs Up Amazon.com
Visse said that Microsoft was making significant investments in developing a better search engine, and specifically referred to Google as a competitor.
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Yahoo Upgrades its Image and Search Engine - Preview Online Now
There's a whole slew of articles this morning about Yahoo's planned search engine upgrade. You can see the new look at http://new.search.yahoo.com/.
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Disney Signs on with Google AdWords
Google announced via press release that they have made an agreement with Disney to syndicate the Google search results and Adwords listings on Disney's Go.com.
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Google Signing Up AdWords Vendors Right and Left
Google has begun signing up vendors for its AdWords program. First in are two ad networks, Burst Media and Fastclick.
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Commentary on Froogle and Google
The in's and out's of Froogle, Google's new shopping search engine, and a discussion of the difficulties Google faces as it continues to grow while dominating the search engine arena.
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Yahoo! Acquires Inktomi
Yahoo agreed to buy Internet search pioneer Inktomi for about $235 million as part of an effort to expand its revenue sources.
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Google vs. Evil. Yeah, Right.
What stands out is Josh's ability to get Sergey Brin to speak openly about several very controversial issues, namely Google's stand on the issues of censoring search results, taking paid advertisements, and optimizing websites.
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Sportsline.com Signs On with Google Adwords
SportsLine.com today announced that it has secured an agreement with Google, enabling Google to place AdWords on the SportsLine.com website.
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Yahoo! Acquiring Overture - And United States Patent 6,269,361
Yahoo! is acquiring Overture outright for cash and shares. The purchase will put the patent for pay per click advertising in Yahoo!'s pocket.
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Google Launches AdSense, Now Everyone Can Host AdWords Ads
Google has just launched a new Adsense program whereby practically any webmaster can put Google Ads on his or her site.
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Google Acquires Kaltix, Looks to Personalize Search
Today Google announced that it has acquired Kaltix Corp., a recent silicon valley search technology startup focused on building personalized search results.
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More Microsoft Search Buzz
A review of some recent speculation about Microsoft's mission to build a better search engine.
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Happy 5th Birthday Google
Today is Google's 5th birthday. The BBC wrote a great article reviewing the first 5 years.
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Yahoo! Tests Inktomi Search Integration
Yahoo! is currently testing the use of Inktomi web search and comparing it to Google, likely in preparation for replacing Google with Inktomi on Yahoo!'s properties.
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AltaVista Launches Search Toolbar - It Translates
AltaVista, which is owned by Overture, which is being purchased by Yahoo!, offered a new search toolbar on its site today.
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Google Loses Trademark Suit, MSN and Overture Extend Agreement
Google was successfully sued in Nanterre, France for selling AdWords sponsored listings tied to a trademarked term. MSN and Overture have extended their relationship for a year and a half.
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Yahoo! Completes Purchase of Overture, Now Owns Patent for Pay Per Click Search
Yahoo! now owns Overture. Yahoo! completed its purchase of Overture Services, Inc. today for approximately 1.83 billion dollars in stock and cash.
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Microsoft Ends Agreement with LookSmart, The Market Reacts
Microsoft will end it's contractual relationship with LookSmart in mid-January (January 15) and will instead focus on building its own search tools. LookSmart gets almost 70 percent of it's quarterly revenue by licensing its search results to MSN, so end
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Microsoft Debuts New Search Engine
Microsoft has released a preview version of its new search engine! Currently, it has indexed just over 1 billion web pages, but that number is expected to grow quickly. Stop by and see what they've been up to.
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Solid Article about Google from the BBC News, Introducing Matt Cutts
A quick read from the BBC News, which interviewed Matt Cutts. Topics include the end of the Google Dance and the Google Bomb.
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Amazon Launches A9 Search Engine
Amazon has just launched a beta version of its new A9 search engine. Plus, read an interview with Matt Wells, designer of Gigablast.
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Man Threatens Google in News of the Wierd
Michael Anthony Bradley was arrested on Thursday in Ventura County. He allegedly created software that would automatically generate click-thoughs on Google AdSense and threatened to sell it if Google didn't pay him $100,000.00.
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Yahoo! Drops Google
Yahoo! is officially dumping Google as of today and will be phasing in its own search engine results over the next few weeks.
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Google IPO News
Google is apparently shopping around for an investment bank to work on a Google IPO.
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Yahoo! Debuts a New Look
This morning Yahoo! began offering a new home page design after previewing it for several days.
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Yahoo!'s LiveSearch is Really, Really Cool
Yahoo!'s LiveSearch kicks Google Suggest's butt like a red-headed step-child who had no business getting up this morning.
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Recents Moves by Yahoo! and MSN into the Social Search Space
Yahoo! and MSN are showing a growing interest in acquiring social search tools in attempts to keep content fresh and differentiate themselves from Google.
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Google Gets Patent for 'Voice Interface for a Search Engine'
Google was granted a patent for a "voice interface for a search engine" on Tuesday.
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Yahoo! Launches FareChase - Takes on Orbitz and Others
Things get complicated when one of the gatekeepers to the web starts to offer its own products in competition with web businesses.
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Google Buys Orion, Microsoft Launches Live Academic Search
The new technology is significant in that it could enable Google to pull information from web sites right into the Google results page.
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April Fools Jokes from Google, Yahoo!, Ask
April Fools' Day in the search engine world, and everybody's getting in on it this year.
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Windows Live Search Goes Live
Among its features, the posed Google competitor offers 'Smart Scroll' function allowing users to view up to 100 results on one page, shareable search macros, and a slider bar that adjusts the amount of previewed content shown.
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AskJeeves.com Becomes Ask.com, Drops Jeeves
AskJeeves.com just became Ask.com, retiring its butler mascot and question-format search in favor of an uncluttered main page and improved search technology.
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Link Farms and Like Farms
A warning from Bing explaining why paying for a link building service is very risky.
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Google Continues World Domination
September 2011 ComScore results show that Google share of search rises to 65.3%
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Think You'll Ever "Duck Duck Go" Something?
Will any other search engine ever unseat Google?
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Latest Eye-Tracking Results on Google SERPs
The latest eye-tracking results from SEOmoz show some interesting dynamics on how people visually interact with Google SERPs.
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Google: "SEO is not Spam".
Google's Matt Cutts makes a deliberate statement that all SEO is not spam.
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Handy Infographic Highlights Growing Importance of Local Search Marketing
We've been harnessing the power of local search for years. Now this Infographic highlights the growth of local search in pictures.
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Local is the New Social
A recent panel study reveals interesting insights on how consumers use Google to search for local businesses.
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Google & the HTTP Referrer: Split Personality Disorder?
Google moves to obfuscate referral data used by web masters and marketers, another salvo in the battle to push them to AdWords.
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Google is Working to Improve Your Flow
Google is rolling out paid search ad placements at the bottom of SERPs, instead of placement on the right side of the page.
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Google Tweaks its Ranking Algorithm - Freshness Matters
Google is updating their ranking algorithm to include a signal for 'freshness' which will impact about 35% or search results.
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Google+ Pages Bribe Brands with Better Search Results
With the launch of Google+ Pages for business and Direct Connect, businesses have more search-based reasons to join up with the social media side of Google.
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Google Launches Verbatim Tool For Deliberate Searching
Google Verbatim lets you search what you type and nothing more.
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Google Enhances Landing Pages Analytics
Google has upgraded reporting on landing pages in Google Analytics.
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Top SEO Game-Changers of 2011
SEO changed remarkably in 2011. Here we take a look back at the top SEO game changers of 2011, one of the biggest years in the evolution of search engine optimization.
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Google News Spotlights +1'd Articles
Google News now features articles +1'd by contacts.
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An Interesting Infographic about Google
An interesting infographic containing a high level recap of Google's business dynamics.
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Privacy N/A: See What They Know About You
Find out what Google, Yahoo, Bing and other major advertising companies know about you, what they think about you, and how you can opt out of their data-gathering systems.
