Google recently released a PR campaign called ‘Google’s Economic Impact’ in a video at YouTube and a PDF file at their website. In it, they claim that in the US they “generated $54 billion of economic value in 2009.” How did they arrive at that figure? Well, they added together the impacts of four aspects …

Woke up this morning to the rather strange announcement from Google that the company has now changed its name to Topeka. In honor of Topeka, Kansas … the town that had changed its name to Google. Confused? So are we. :/ From the Official Google Blog : Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas …

Health Pricer Shopping Engine – Spotlight #10 The 10th installment of the Spotlight of 500 Search Engines is a comparison shopping engine targeted to the vertical market of health and wellness. HealthPricer reviews different products and compares their prices. Brian Smith, who interviewed the people behind HealthPricer feels that they have an uphill battle do …

Myriad Search Meta Search Engine – Spotlight #8 Aaron Wall of the SEOBook has developed a new meta search engine which serves results from Yahoo and Google API’s, MSN Search RSS feeds (soon to be API) and Ask.com. What? Another meta search engine with Google, Yahoo and MSN results? What’s so special about that you …

SearchWebMedia Multimedia and Web Search Engine – Spotlight #7 GoFish Technologies has unveiled what it calls “the first search engine of its kind to simultaneously deliver integrated web and multimedia search results”. SearchWebMedia.com serves music, video, podcasts, ringtones, audiobooks, and user-generated content in a Multimedia Results box at the top of its search results page …

Fazzle Multi-Lingual Meta Search Engine – Spotlight #6 Fazzle.com is a meta search engine which is available in English, French, and Dutch. Fazzle searches over 120 different search engines to deliver ‘fast accurate results’ accompanied by a preview page along with each listing. Fazzle’s search results include Web, Downloads, Images, Videos, Audio, Yellow Pages, White …

Personal Checks Search – 4checks.com One of the beauties of the vertical search engine is the ability to center the entire search service around one locale, product, or idea. As we saw with FoodieView, search can be designated to recipe information, while using Vivisimmo style clustering to break down by styles of foods or origin …

Yandex Russian Search Engine – Spotlight #4 For the forth installment of Spotlight of 500 Search Engines, Konstantin Minaton of SeoText.ru helped Search Engine Journal take our series overseas to Mother Russia to look into Yandex. Yandex is the largest search engine / portal on the Russian Internet (Runet) according to research studies conducted by …

FoodieView Recipe Search Engine – Spotlight #3 The third search engine in the Spotlight of 500 Search Engines is a nifty recipe search engine called FoodieView. FoodieView indexes recipes from all over the web into one easy to find search engines which lets its users drill down in search results by ingredients, national cuisine, special …