Search Engine Journal

Google has partnered with the Australian media conglomerate, News Digital Media (NDM), to add Google AdSense contextual advertising and paid search AdWords advertising to the sites of The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun and The Australian.
Australian IT reports that the deal is a multi-year agreement which is based upon a custom revenue share plan between […]

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Evolving algorithms, AI and computational linguistics, those are the credentials of Rapid Intelligence, the firm that provides us the search tool FactBites.
The search engine provides meaningful summaries for all the results of the search queries. These are not just sentence level matches but appear to be a result of contextual analysis too as visible […]

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Google’s stock is at $515.00, it is now working with NASA working together on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from large-scale data management and massively distributed computing, to human-computer interfaces, and of course, still leading the search market.
Hitwise reports Google search accounted for “64.35% of all US searches in the four weeks […]

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The two part article “Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristocracy” is already long enough. I had more content, which I decided not to include, some (IMO) funny stuff. Here is some of it. It’s off beat and you can skip it, without missing out on something.
I tried to make comparisons to things […]

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This is part two of the article:  ”Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristocracy“.
Now here is a misconception that I would like to correct. People that buy links do this to gain ranking for a term that is relevant for that page. Even links on sites about Linux that say “buy Viagra”, point […]

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One of the most interesting SES SJ panels last week was definitely the panel “Are Paid Links Evil” with Matt Cutts (Google), Michael Gray (Graywolf), Todd Malicott (Stuntduble), Todd Friesen (Oilman), Greg Boser (Web Guirilla) and Andy Baio (Upcoming.com).
The panel started with a funny, but off-topic video by Matt Cutt’s and made it clear to […]

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Yahoo is finally releasing its web Mail program out of beta stage, at the same time integrating some new features, the most notable of which being the email to mobile phone messaging facility.
With the new feature, Yahoo mail users who enter valid contact numbers in their contacts’ profiles can opt to send text messages or […]

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A couple of weeks ago Yahoo announced that it will be integrating video content into its photo sharing site, Flickr aside from intensifying content development into its Yahoo video portal by pushing more licensed videos from its partner content providers. But this seemed to have not generated too much hype and interest from […]

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Just in time for Fantasy Football, Yahoo Search has introduced a new series of Yahoo Shortcuts for the searches of NFL player names on Yahoo. Earlier in the month, Yahoo introduced Major League Baseball player shortcuts and their NFL shortcuts follow the similar fashion of player stats and links to resources, as powered by Yahoo […]

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Oingo, the meaning based search engine debuted in 1998 i.e. at the time when keywords and relevancy alone were the driving factors for online content, the engine definitely has to have certain clear fundamental technologies and databases in place. Started by a duo of CalTech alumni Adam Weissman and Gil Elbaz, the engine differentiated itself […]

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