When a search engine that has an incredibly miniscule percentage of the search market share fails, does anyone listen? Over the weekend Accoona, the same China backed search engine that had Bill Clinton speak at its launch party and was giving away cars left and right as recent as a year ago, has closed its [...]

Merger talks between Yahoo and Time Warner’s AOL have been around even during the failed Microsoft – Yahoo saga. But it is only now that the said deal seems to be getting on clearer ground.  Citing sources close to the negotiations, TC’s Arrington is reporting that both companies are in currently busy ironing out the [...]

With all the buzz around recent Google Blogsearch relaunch, I thought that would a good idea to look at most popular blog meme trackers available online. The most general definition of the word meme is: A meme consists of any idea or behavior that can pass from one person to another by learning or imitation. [...]

Ask.com is making its presence felt in the search engine market by introducing two new features of its search engine recently. News.com is reporting that Ask.com is now parsing more data and displaying these in its search results page. Starting today, if you visit Ask.com and ask a question, Ask.com’s algorithms will try to display [...]

If you work for an online marketing agency the following scenario is probably not uncommon. A client comes to you wanting to help shape the search results for their brand names. They’re not talking about their own domain names or web properties either. They’re now worried about sites like RipOffReport, ComplaintsBoard and the dozens of [...]