Search Engine Journal

Get or Give Gmail Invites With GMailOMatic
I heard about this last week, but when I tried to send it a couple invitations, it didn’t work. It worked yesterday so I’ll mention it. GmailOMatic allows people to submit Gmail invitations and request Gmail invitations.
So if you’ve got a couple invites left over and want to be […]

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Put RSS Feeds On Your Web Page
If you’re interested in putting RSS feeds on your Web page but you don’t have a lot of server/programming expertise, you might want to try the RSS Digest tool at http://www.bigbold.com/rssdigest/ . This tools has some nice extras on it, though at the moment it only supports RSS feeds, […]

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Search Engines Can Read Macromedia FLASH SDK
Macromedia has solved what was likely one of its biggest problems. As of this month, FLASH files (.SWF) can now be read and indexed by search engine spiders. Until now, the general rule was that spiders could not extract data from .SWF files. The development of the FLASH […]

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Google Toolbar Security Warning
As many of the readers of Search Engine Journal (including myself) probably have the Google Toolbar installed on your machines, we thought that this warning is quite relevant. The Google Toolbar apparently has a security hole which has been posted on SecurityTracker.com.
It is reported that the ‘About’ section of the Google […]

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Ask Jeeves Search Engine Gets Slim and Personal
Ask Jeeves has introduced new changes which have totally made over the search engine which hopes to give Yahoo, MSN and Google a run for their money. The new changes at Ask.com include MyJeeves personal search, a revamped local search, and an update of Ask’s Teoma search technology. […]

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Latest Google Hiring Point to Browser Plans
We discussed few days ago that Google might be planning to develop it’s own Browser… and signs are becoming clearer than ever. Just reported in many online papers, Google has done some high profile hiring in the recent days. 4 people who worked on Internet Explorer (one being Adam […]

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Topix Delivering Local News Search to Ask Jeeves
Topix.net today announced that it has been selected by Ask Jeeves, Inc. to provide news to Ask Jeeves for its Local News channel. Through this partnership, Ask Jeeves becomes the first major search engine to feature Topix.net’s news technology.
Topix.net provides visitors to Ask Jeeves access to local news […]

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Google Lawsuit Thrown Out of German Court
A Hamburg court rejected Metaspinner Media ’s lawsuit against Google over allegations the Internet search engine allows rival companies to buy ads using trademarked terms, an attorney said Tuesday.
The AP Wires report that Metaspinner Media took Google Deutschland to court in May, accusing it of selling ads triggered when […]

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Amazon A9 Search -Is It Really A9 Out of 10?
Personalization, the search engine buzzword of the year! Every major search engine with public goals has noted that some form of personalization will be implemented into future versions of their engines. What is personalization? It is a buzzword so there are many visions of this definition; […]

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Yahoo Launching Music Download Service This Year
After its $160 million aquisition of MusicMatch, Yahoo is expected to be releasing its own music download service at the end of the year. According to ZDNet, Yahoo has been in the development phase of its music download service since last year, working with MusicNet. However, the MusicMatch acquisition […]

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