Search Engine Journal

Topix, the community driven local news search experience, has a new CEO with a familiar face. Chris Tolles, the long time VP of Marketing for Topix has stepped into the role of CEO of the company.
Rich Skrenta, the former CEO of Topix, has stepped down from the role, but is still with the company. […]

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Today in Google’s Public Policy Blog, Alex Kinnear, Group Product Manager traces the history why Google decided on buying out ad serving company, Double Click. The controversial buyout plan got Google receiving some flak from search engine competitors. Microsoft for one was not happy about the deal.
After tracing back the history of ad serving and […]

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I started noticing some changes in the layout of Adsense units running in my other blog as early as last week, but it’s only now that the Inside Adsense blog issued an official announcement. Adsense publishers now have the option to further customize the look of their Adsense units by specifying the shapes as […]

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Kosmix, the topical and categorical search engine, is powering the search application on RevolutionHealth.com, the health and medical website that marries expert health content and resources with social networking. The end result is comprehensive and up-to-date information on millions of medical conditions and treatments using Kosmix search.
Here’s an example of a Kosmix search […]

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The major business networking sites LinkedIn and Xing are quick in providing one feature after another to out-do each other in the struggle for increasing their member bases and market share.
Less than two weeks ago did Xing announce the partnership with ZoomInfo, which has the goal to expand the reach of Xing and the information […]

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Google News has added a new degree of online news search aggregation & navigation with its new Google News Image Version.
Users can sift through Google News stories by mousing over the images taken from each article.

Adding a new respect for photo journalism in the news search arena, Google News is also using Ajax technology […]

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Robert Scoble broke the news on Sunday night first as far as I can tell. The address book, calendar and task management and synchronization platform Plaxo opened their new version 3.0 beta to the public.
As a user and fan of Plaxo, did I go and tested it out right away of course. I had a […]

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Vertical search engines (VSEs), or specialized search engines, are becoming increasingly popular, and e-marketing reporters and search engine industry analysts have deemed vertical the “hottest trend in search.” But just because vertical is trendy now does not mean it will be short-lived. In fact, as VSEs continue to diversify they will likely become more attractive […]

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Yahoo Image Search has added Flickr images into its image index. Now, Yahoo Image Search is serving over 300 million Flickr photos in its query results via a live feed from Flickr; so once an image is uploaded to a Flickr account, it’s available via Yahoo Image Search too.
The Flickr photos in Yahoo Search will […]

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Some cool updates are happening at Google land. Here’s some of them:
Dictionary Translations through Google Translate
The single-word version of Google’s automatic translations of paragraphs, text or documents. Works like your ordinary bilingual dictionary that gives you multiple meanings of a word depending on its usage and context.
IMAP Email Migration for Google Apps Users
For Google […]

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