Gazopa Similar Image Search Enters Open Beta
Imagine conducting an image search whereby the search engine uses features from an image to retrieve similar images. If you thought to yourself “That’s already...
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Yahoo Link Sends Record-Breaking Traffic to New York Times Site
And you thought the “Digg Effect” was bad. Behold the Yahoo link effect. A link featured at the top of Yahoo’s front page sent more...
Got Good Credit? Google Wants to Serve You Targeted Ads.
As a website owner myself, I have explored several different contextual ad platforms, and Google has always seemed to be ahead of their competitors in...
Google Co-Founder Invests in Space Tourism
According to various reports, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has invested in a space tourism company. Furthermore, Brin has expressed interest in going into orbit himself...
MBA Students Are Dying to Get in at Google
Upon graduation, the dream of many MBA students is to snag a job at Google. Yep, that’s right – Google. For the second year in...
Private Detective Sues Google for “Unwanted” Ads
Another day, another lawsuit. David Almeida, a private detective, has filed a lawsuit against Google claiming that hundreds of thousands of companies that have signed...
Google Sued for Rejecting Anti-Abortion Ad
A UK Christian organization is fighting back after Google rejected their advertisement submission for being “unacceptable content”, and is taking the search company to court. ...
Google & the Government: How Close Are They?
Ever since Google became the dominant leader in the search sector, there have been rumblings about alleged connections with the U.S. government and the whole...
Google to Invest in Undersea Cable
Google, along with five other telcom companies, is investing $300 million into the construction of an 10,000 km undersea cable to carry data to and...
Cleveland Clinic Collaborates with Google for Health Records Management
The world renowned Cleveland Clinic Health System announced Wednesday that are teaming up with Google to test out a new online medical record service, which...
Google Indexing Blogs Quickly
If you’ve launched a new blog at Blogger or WordPress, you might be wondering if or when Google might get around to indexing your site. ...
Google, Publicis Working Together on Digital Ads Technology
Google Inc. and Publicis Groupe announced Wednesday that they are working together on using technology to improve advertising. The two companies have already been collaborating...
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Ask.com For Failure to Prevent Click Fraud
Ask.com is apparently being sued in a class action lawsuit for “failing to adequately detect and stop ‘click fraud’ or other invalid or improper clicks...
Google Boots IncrediMail from AdSense Program
IncrediMail revealed today that they had received a notification from Google indicating that they had been dismissed from the Google AdSense program. Upon the announcement...
Kayak.com Travel Search Engine Merges With SideStep Inc.
Kayak.com announced today the completion of a $196 financing round, which they will use to complete a merger with SideStep Inc. and to pursue a...
Google Rolls Out Centralized Profiles Via New Google Profiles
Over the weekend, Google quietly began rolling out a new, centralized profile system that will supply personalized information to each of the Google products that...
Google Reveals Year-End Zeigeist Search Trends for 2007
2007 is almost done and gone, and in the land of search it’s time for the annual year-end reviews. Both Yahoo and Ask.com have already...
Truth About .Edu Domains : Registration, Links and Google Juice
Recently there has been a lot of chatter about .edu top-level domains. From whether a .edu TLD packs more Google-juice punch to whether one can...
Embeddable Charts Made Easy with New Google Charts API
On Thursday, Google rolled out the new Google Charts API, which makes putting stunning, dynamic charts into your web pages easier than you’d think. And...
Research Firm Says Yahoo, MSN, & Google Have Major Page-Caching Flaw
A “significant” vulnerability has been found in the page-caching technologies of the three major search engines – Google, Yahoo, & Microsoft Live Search. Researchers at...
Ask.com Reveals the Top Searches of 2007
Following closely on the heels of Yahoo’s release of their 2007 Top Trends in Search is Ask.com, who today have released their “Real Deal” List...
Google Reveals Fast-Growing Search Terms of 2007
Not to be confused with Google Zeitgeist’s year-end top searches, which has yet to be released, Google revealed today a list of the “fast rising...
Yahoo Reveals the Top Trends in Search for 2007
The year is quickly winding down, which in the world of search means that it’s time to review the year’s overall trends. On Monday Yahoo...
Student Using Human Brain Mapping to Power Image Search Engine
There are some exciting new innovations in search coming up on the horizon, and one of those is a project currently being worked on by...