Yahoo just updated their site guidelines. Here’s a look: Pages Yahoo! Wants Included in Its Index * Original and unique content of genuine value * Pages designed primarily for humans, with search engine considerations secondary * Hyperlinks intended to help people find interesting, related content, when applicable * Metadata (including title and description) that accurately [...]

Google is a great website, but a lesson of the dotcom bubble is that a great website is not always a great business, advises Dr. Steve Baba, a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland, in a report on Google stock. Google’s expected IPO has attracted enormous, one-sided, positive buzz from Google fans, techies [...]

Vivisimo, the award-winning clustering engine for Web search, today created a special tool for readers of the 9/11 Commission’s report. Located at http://vivisimo.com/911 , this tool serves as a reference to help both the media and the general public search the report’s contents and focus on areas of interest quickly. Vivisimo’s clustering technology organizes this [...]

XMLSoft releases feedsfarm.com, News Search Engine -with Custom XML News feeds in RSS and Atom formats: www.FeedsFarm.com The news search engine is fed by over 900 high quality news sources via XML news feeds in RSS and Atom formats. The news index is updated every 5 minutes, resulting in fresh news content. Users are able [...]

Feedster Offers Searchable Compilation of Official DNC Bloggers. You can browse the latest postings or limit your search to these “official” DNC bloggers. politics.feedster.com :: The Official DNC Bloggers Thanks for the tip Gary! In other Feedster news, they’re going sponsored links! eWeek reports that Feedster is serving Overture partnered sponsored links throughout their site [...]

A Selection of Recently Awarded Search-Related Patents & Recently Published Search-Related Patent Applications Search engine with natural language-based robust parsing for user query and relevance feedback learningAssignee: Microsoft Method and system of ranking and clustering for document indexing and retrievalAssignee: SAIC Method for promoting contextual information to display pages containing hyperlinksAssignee: Microsoft Method and system [...]

A GMail user named Ahmed Motaz reported a possible security flaw in the Google’s upcoming emailing service GMail. The problem is related to the ‘CheckAvailability’ which can be misused to attain user information of a new user who is trying to register for the much hyped email service. The flaw is: a remote user can [...]