Google Reveals Year-End Zeigeist Search Trends for 2007
2007 is almost done and gone, and in the land of search it’s time for the annual year-end reviews. Both Yahoo and Ask.com have already...
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Google Adding Blogs to Universal Search
Starting this week or next, Google will be adding blogs as new feature in its Universal Search results. What’s this mean? According to Marissa Mayer,...
ISP Injecting Yahoo Logo & Own Ads on Google Homepage, Google is Not Happy
Canadian cable and telecom giant Rogers Communications has begun testing new technology on its high-speed internet service that inserts Rogers-centric messages and advertisements on third-party...
Yahoo Answers & Social Researching: The Dangers, Risks, and Proper Usage
Jacob Leibenluft at Slate recently wrote a piece about Yahoo Answers, summing up the entire service as a “ librarian’s worst nightmare“. My worst nightmare...
Truth About .Edu Domains : Registration, Links and Google Juice
Recently there has been a lot of chatter about .edu top-level domains. From whether a .edu TLD packs more Google-juice punch to whether one can...
Google Maps Adds 8 New Cities to StreetView
Google has brought up the number of cities included in Street View to 23, with the addition of eight new cities, including: Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis,...
Microsoft Rolls Out MSN Mobile Ads in America
On Monday, Microsoft Corp. began placing advertisements on the U.S. version of the MSN Mobile page, marking the Redmond giant’s foray into the U.S. mobile...
Yahoo to Launch TechTicker : Tech Stock Video Program
Yahoo Finance is arguably one of the most widely used and successful financial websites. Access to streaming quotes, SEC filings, company data, and more make...
Embeddable Charts Made Easy with New Google Charts API
On Thursday, Google rolled out the new Google Charts API, which makes putting stunning, dynamic charts into your web pages easier than you’d think. And...
Google Shows Apple Some Love with New ‘Mac Developer Playground’
Earlier this week, Google launched the Google Mac Developer Playground, a place where Google Engineers can showcase their Mac-oriented projects. In addition to their regular...
Google Wants to be the King of All Advertising Media
Google is hoping to attract more advertising partners beyond just their proposed purchase of DoubleClick Ltd., and makes the prediction that a move to a...
Research Firm Says Yahoo, MSN, & Google Have Major Page-Caching Flaw
A “significant” vulnerability has been found in the page-caching technologies of the three major search engines – Google, Yahoo, & Microsoft Live Search. Researchers at...
Google Maps & TomTom Team Up to Provide Business Information
TomTom, the Dutch navigation systems company, announced Wednesday that they were teaming up with Google in an effort that will allow users to find and...
Google : Germany’s Largest Online Pornographer?
In an effort to supposedly protect young people from accessing questionable, pornographic material through Google and its Image Search without age verification, German media group...
Google’s Exclusive iPhone Interface Launches
Google has quietly launched a brand new interface for visitors accessing the site with an Apple iPhone. At first they didn’t make any announcements or...
AOL Discontinuing Paid Video Download Service, Selling Videos on Amazon.com Instead
It was revealed today that AOL will discontinue their pay-for-download video service, and instead move their content over to Amazon’s Unbox service. Terms of the...
Ask.com Reveals the Top Searches of 2007
Following closely on the heels of Yahoo’s release of their 2007 Top Trends in Search is Ask.com, who today have released their “Real Deal” List...
Google Reveals Fast-Growing Search Terms of 2007
Not to be confused with Google Zeitgeist’s year-end top searches, which has yet to be released, Google revealed today a list of the “fast rising...
Yahoo Reveals the Top Trends in Search for 2007
The year is quickly winding down, which in the world of search means that it’s time to review the year’s overall trends. On Monday Yahoo...
Yahoo Local Neighbors Launched to Bring Communities Together
Attempting to pull of what BackFence.com could never accomplish, Yahoo has begun testing on a new feature of Yahoo Local called “Neighbors“, which allows members...
Google Confirms Intentions to Bid on Wireless Spectrum
After months of speculation and whispers, Google confirmed on Friday their plans to submit a bid for wireless spectrum to be auctioned by the Federal...
News Publishers Seeking More Control Over Search Engines Propose Automated Content Access Protocol
News publishers meeting today have unveiled a new proposal that would give them a greater amount of control over the way that search engines index...
Student Using Human Brain Mapping to Power Image Search Engine
There are some exciting new innovations in search coming up on the horizon, and one of those is a project currently being worked on by...
Google Removes Malware Sites, But Doesn’t Admit There Was a Problem
Following up on yesterday’s story about a massive malware attack on the “big three” search engines, which saw the manipulation of the search engines to...
Big Three Search Engines Target of Massive Malware Attack
According to a security research firm report issued on Tuesday, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live Search are currently under a large-scale organized attack campaign designed...
Google Maps Offers New Views & Collaboration Features
Working in a library where I am subjected to the random, erratic questions of library patrons, I’m a pretty avid user of Google Maps. From...
Ask.com Parent Company IAC Gunning For China
China, with its population of over 1.3 billion people, is an emerging force in the business world. Just think of all the tainted product recalls...