Yahoo has rolled out a series of their famous Yahoo Shortcuts specific for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games being held in China. The Opening ceremonies for the Olympics will be on August 8th and Yahoo Search will then be serving real time results in their Olympic shortcuts. For example, a search for ‘Olympics medal count’ [...]

Google has enhanced its enterprise search solution, Google Search Appliance by increasing its search capacity to up to 10 million from its previous 3 million limit for enterprise wide document searching.

For those of you who are buried under piles of work and don’t spend as much time as you like reading about what is happening in the industry, Mashable.com is on tour this summer. I was lucky enough to have the time to attend the SummerSmash Miami event in South Beach over the weekend. I [...]

Yesterday morning we covered some changes in the Yahoo Search Index and its rankings of sites, with some sites dropping and some shooting up in search rankings. Yahoo has confirmed that the index update is indeed taking place and is expanding through the week: We’ll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and [...]