A group of international developers are working together to produce an open source search engine that may rival the commercial search bandits. From the Nutch project’s site: Nutch is a nascent effort to implement an open-source web search engine. Web search is a basic requirement for internet navigation, yet the number of web search engines [...]

ExactSeek’s Mel Strocen takes a look into Google’s new update, the future of website ranking, and obstacles of judging the popularity of a website in the Future of WebSite Ranking: The future of quality search results lies in harnessing the opinions of the Internet masses – in other words, by tying search results and site [...]

Shopping Search Engines Shopping-specific search is growing in popularity. A ComScore study shows that shopping search and comparison engines attracted 33 million unique visitors in October 2003 and total traffic to these sites rose 9 percent from the same time last year, making them one of the Internet’s fastest growing categories. Shopping comparison sites include [...]

Search giant Google has asked a US court to decide whether its keyword searches infringe upon company trademarks. The move comes after several companies have complained about the fact that Google’s AdWords scheme allows competitors to use their trademarked names, or parts of those names, to trigger ads linked to the websites of those competitors. [...]

Recently Google, AOL, and Overture have tightened down on search advertisements for diet drugs and other sketchy drug and pharmacy ads, but are easing up on sex advertisements. Yahoo and America Online have even changed their policies to earn more money from Internet searches related to pornography, the most popular form of paid content on [...]