Paying customers of the Google Apps suite are starting to question the company’s ability to offer guaranteed services, like basic uptime. Google seems to have problems keeping its uptime pledge to some paying customers of its Google Apps suite of hosted services according to PC World. Little over a month after introducing Google Apps’ Premier [...]

According to a patent filing, Nokia is working to develop a Semantic Visual Search Engine to organize the multimedia content on mobile phones. The technology will enable “a system to learn, categorize and search items such as images and video clips according to their semantic meanings.” Once complete, the cell phone will contain software capable [...]

Welcome to Search Engine Journal’s new column, In-house SEM, which features an in-house search marketer each week. For the kickoff, I spoke with Yahoo!’s Director of Search Engine Marketing, Dave Roth, to understand how search marketing is handled at Yahoo!. There are different types of in-house roles, and Dave’s role is that of very high-level [...]

Neil Patel and the boys at Pronet Advertising have developed one heck of a fun game with Search Engine Smackdown. Think of Search Engine Smackdown as a mix between Tekken and Celebrity Death Match where you can be the Google founders (Larry & Sergey), Yahoo founders (Jerry & David), or Microsoft founders (Bill & Paul) [...]

On the Live Search Weblog, Eytan Seidman addresed the problems Live Search is facing with advanced query syntax in our search engine such as link:, linkdomain: and inurl:. For those of you who use some of the advanced query syntax in our search engine such as link:, linkdomain: and inurl:, you may have noticed that [...]

Serph, the reputation tracking search engine which scours results from various social media sites has come out of private beta testing and is now open to the public. Serph tracks sites including various Blogs, Flickr, Delicious, Digg, Technorati, Bloglines, YouTube, Google Blog Search, Sphere, Ma.gnolia, Podzinger, Newsvine, Feedster, and Topix.net all into one easy to [...]