Early this morning, right after the witching hour, Yahoo pulled the trigger and dropped Google search results from their Yahoo Search function. The move was expected by many in the search industry, especially after Yahoo bought out the Inktomi search engine and Overture Search Advertising last year. Around the same time, MSN expanded their new […]
Entries from February 2004
Yahoo and MSN Prove Competition for Google
February 18th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 8 Comments
Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Advertising Survey
February 18th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
The Search Engine Journal is working in conjunction with the Kelsey Group and WebAdvantage.net to distribute a new survey on Paid Search Engine Advertising.
If you represent a business that currently advertises via Google AdWords, Overture, FindWhat, LookSmart, or any other pay-per-click sponsored link search engine service- please take about 5 minutes to complete this simple […]
Yahoo Introduces New Yahoo Search
February 18th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 5 Comments
Yahoo announced that it has created a more comprehensive and relevant search experience for users through the deployment of its own algorithmic search technology on Yahoo!(R) Search (http://search.yahoo.com). Starting today, the company will begin rolling out the new Yahoo! Search Technology (YST) and expects to continue the process on a worldwide basis over the next […]
New changes at Yahoo’s search technology are welcomed
February 18th, 2004 by rankforsales | 1 Comment
New changes at Yahoo’s search technology are welcomed
MSN News Search Expands Internationally
February 18th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Microsoft’s MSN has introduced their Newsbot news search in several additional foreign languages, advancing its search strategy internationally to compete with Google.
In November, MSN introduced MSN Newsbot, an automated service that lets visitors tailor news pages and search for items from more than 4,000 information sources (a lot were provided by Moreover). At first […]
Google Grows Index to 6 Billion Sites, Postings and Documents
February 17th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Google, the search engine giant, claimed today that it has reached a new milestone in search by extending its web index to over six billion items. This Google Index expansion includes 4.28 billion web pages, 880 million images, 845 million Usenet messages, and a growing collection of book-related information pages.
“Google Image Search has been significantly […]
Yahoo Sneak Previews non-Google Search Results
February 17th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Search engine people all over the world today are on the edge of their seats, waiting for the Yahoo to drop Google and switch to Inktomi.
Currently, Yahoo is showing Inktomi Test results when using certain URL based search queries.
For example, use this model for finding Yahoo Inktomi results instead of Google:
http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=your keyword here&tmpl=E088
Replace your keyword […]
Google dance update on ‘Brandy’
February 17th, 2004 by rankforsales | 2 Comments
Google dance update on ‘Brandy’
Yahoo Intros New Search Robot - Yahoo! Slurp
February 17th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 10 Comments
Yahoo just got a step closer to dropping the Google search results from its search function and replacing them with Yahoo’s own Inktomi search engine- which will be a bit of a blow to Google, and a sign of potential dominance by Yahoo.
Yahoo has just unleashed a new site indexing robot to crawl the web […]
Search ads help bring viewers to news sites
February 17th, 2004 by rankforsales | 2 Comments
Search ads help bring viewers to news sites
