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June To Be “Month of Search Engines Bugs”
‘Month of bugs’ pins bull’s-eye on Google, Yahoo from Computerworld reports Websecurity.com.ua says it will post a security vulnerability about the most popular search engines of the world each day throughout the month of June, in particular cross-site scripting ones.
“Natalie Portman” Most Searched For Star Wars Term
For the 30 year anniversary of Star Wars, Lycos has compiled a list of the top search terms related to Star Wars, used by those at the Lycos site. Leading the list overall is Natalie Portman. Portman also tops the “real people” list, while the top Star Wars character is Oola.
Google’s Promising, But Yahoo’s Doing, Cross Language Information Retrieval
Yesterday, Google announced that it will soon be launching a cross-language information retrieval (CLIR) feature. As Greg Sterling wrote: “Search queries will be entered in the native language, translated into English and run against Google’s index. Any retrieved pages/sites will then be translated from English back into the native language. [Google’s Udi] Manber said it […]
Searching For An Adult Topic? You’ll Have To Prove Your Age To Google Korea
Google Korea to censor search results from InfoWorld reports that Google Korea — like other search engines in the country — will require people to prove their age in order to get back unfiltered results for certain searches.
Google’s New Navigational Links: An Illustrated Guide
After months of testing, Google is rolling out new ways to navigate within its search results and between different Google properties. Here’s an illustrated guide to the old and new. Let’s start with the home page. How it currently looks, for someone who is logged in:
Google Searchology Day: Recap Of Announcements
It’s Searchology Day today at Google, where the company is devoting time to look at the past, present and future of search at Google. There will be a number of significant announcements coming out of the event. Want to keep up? Stay tuned to this page. We’ll keep it updated with a summary of major […]
Google’s Got A New Tag Line? OK, Yahoo’s Got A New Mission Statement
Danny recently reported Google that Google gained a new, unofficial tag line. Now Yahoo has come out pushing a new mission statement: To connect people to their passions, communities, and the world’s knowledge. The statement is for Yahoo’s new Yahoo Network Division. Jeff Weiner, the EVP who leads the division, explains in detail what this […]
Google’s Searchology Day: Webcast Tomorrow
Tomorrow is "Searchology" at Google, a day devoted for Google to discuss future plans in search. We’ll be covering news here on Search Engine Land as it comes out. But can’t wait for our write-up? Just tune-in to the webcast. It begins at 9:30 Pacific time tomorrow, May 16. The webcast is here. From the […]
Yahoo Expands Unlimited Email Offer Globally
Today, Yahoo has begun rolling out unlimited email capacity worldwide. On March 28th, we reported they were offering unlimited email storage in the US. Now this is going worldwide. Not everyone will have unlimited capacity today but over the next coming months, they will, a Yahoo spokesperson told me.
Pipl – A People Search Engine
Pipl is a people search engine that tries to be a little different. Rather than just go off and hunt for email addresses, this tries to search through the deep/invisible/hidden web to return content that other search engines are going to miss. The interface is simple – type in first name, last name, city, state […]
Real Estate Search Engine Trulia Redesigns, Adds Community
Real estate search site Trulia has redesigned, creating a new presentation on search results pages with more advanced property filters. But beyond this it has added “Trulia Voices,” a new community area for people to ask open-ended questions and discuss neighborhoods, schools, etc. Competitor Zillow recently also added community (Zillow Q&A), which is tied to […]
Yahoo To Close Yahoo Auctions
Yahoo has announced that they will be closing Yahoo Auctions in the United States and Canada as of June 16, 2007. Yahoo Auctions will continue in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Clearly, Yahoo has thrown in the towel when it comes to fighting eBay in the auction space, Instead, the company recently partnered up even […]
Exalead Adds Image Search, Facial Recognition Capabilities
Exalead, a search engine that’s popular among librarians and information professionals thanks to its array of advanced search capabilities, has added an image search function for more than 1 billion images on the web. Included in the image search tool is the ability to drill down on human faces, thanks to integration of LTU Technologies’ […]
MySpace To Buy Photobucket For $300 Million
Valleywag broke the news that MySpace would be acquiring Photobucket for about $300 million.
Yahoo Search Integrates Lyrics Shortcut
The Yahoo Search blog has reported that Yahoo has now integrated their new music lyrics database into the Yahoo search results. If you perform a search on neil young lyrics at Yahoo, you will see a Yahoo Shortcut for “Neil Young Lyrics – Music Results.”
A Survival Guide to SEO & Wikipedia
“Who knows about Wikipedia?” asked Neil Patel. “Everyone,” he answered. And this is exactly why the session “Wikipedia and SEO” was completely packed at the 2007 SES New York show. Moderated by Danny Sullivan, the panel featured Neil Patel, Co-Founder of ACS, Stephan Spencer, Founder and President of Netconcepts, Don Steele, Director of Digital and […]
Kicking The Tires On Shopping Search, Part Two: The Independents
A few weeks back, we looked at how the major engines, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, handled shopping search. This week we look at four of the dedicated shopping search portals: BizRate.com, Shopping.com, Shopzilla.com, NexTag.com, and a relative newcomer to the space, Become.com. Each of these properties matched up quite well in terms of user experience […]
Yahoo, Google Test New Search Results Pages
Both Yahoo and Google seem to be testing new search results pages. Karl Ribas found that Yahoo is testing a design that has a thin top blue bar above search results. The blue really doesn’t remind me of Yahoo—Yahoo to me is about the purple and white colors. But the blue does remind me of […]
Free Webcast Next Thursday: Successful Feed-Based Search Marketing
Most search marketers focus their efforts on organic search optimization or sponsored search listings. But there’s another channel that offers unique opportunities to reach additional viewers and potentially drive conversions that might otherwise never be realized. On Thursday, May 10, I’ll be presenting the webcast Successful Feed-Based Search Marketing: Shopping Engines, Paid Inclusion & More […]
Google & Gatorade, Together In Oklahoma
Google makes it official, they’re moving into an industrial park where citizens of Pryor Creek, Oklahoma were already thrilled about for having attracted Gatorade. Pryor Mayor, Jimmy Tramel said, “Gatorade and Google are just unbelievable to think about,” he adds “What’s next?” Tulsa World reports the initial Google construction can bring in $400 million and […]
Google To Build Data Center In Belgium
Google reportedly to build data center in Belgium from MarketWatch reports that Google is going to spend 250 million EUROs (about $341 million US) on a data center in Belgium.
Oklahoma, Where The Google Comes Sweepin’ Down The Plain
From California, Google has spread out across the great land of the United States. New York! Washington! Arizona! And now which of the fifty nifty United States is Google heading to next? Oklahoma! Below, some news of Google’s plans for the Sooner State and well as a recap of what other states it has conquered […]
New US Border Check Tool: Google
Via Boing Boing, LSD as Therapy? Write about It, Get Barred from US from The Tyee covers how Canadian psychotherapist Andrew Feldmar was denied entry into the United States after being pulled aside during a border crossing for a random check. One of those fancy explosive sniffing machines then get him stopped? Metal in his […]
QueryCAT – Search FAQs
QueryCat is a search engine that is designed to search frequently asked questions, and they claim to have the largest database of these, by using the Alexa web crawler. They have apparently indexed over 2 million questions and answers (though this information isn’t on the website) which is a fair number. I tried lots of […]
Goodbye Froogle, Hello Google Product Search!
Back in December 2002, Google launched its long expected product and shopping search engine. It was called Froogle, a combination of “frugal” and “Google.” Just over four years later, Froogle is finally losing its cutesy name for something more descriptive — to become Google Product Search. It will also gain a cleaner interface, as well. […]
Google Testing Grouping Search Results By Category
Lee Odden spotted Google testing this very unusual user interface. In short, some of his searches are displaying Google results that are grouped by category. I used Lee’s screen capture and cropped it a bit to fit here.
Google Continues Testing Top Of Page Services Links
Via Google Blogoscoped, another round of the Google services navigation testing, where Google has put the “Other Searches” links normally above the search box at the top of the page. This type of placement was first spotted last month on both the Google home page and on search results pages. The latest version changes the […]
Analyzing The Major Shopping Search Services
This week I’ll look at shopping search from the user’s perspective. We’ll be starting with the big three offerings from the major engines, Google’s Froogle, Yahoo Shopping and MSN Shopping. In the next Just Behave column I’ll be taking a test drive of some of the dedicated shopping search properties and see how they stack […]
Shareholders To Vote On Google Censorship In China
Google Faces Pressure Over Censorship from WebProNews reports that Google’s shareholders will have the right to vote at the upcoming annual meeting on the issue of censorship in China and other “abusive regimes.” Marketwatch and BetaNews both also have earlier coverage.
Smarter’s Product Video Reviews
Smarter’s video product reviews are a very entertaining and useful product research tool. As Smarter’s product evangelist Paul Willmes said, “the reviews are by people who actually own [the product] which makes it more real. It makes the opinion more valuable, like a friend giving you advice.”
Yahoo Testing Alpha (Beta) Multi Search
Spotted via Micro Persuasion and Digital Inspiration, Yahoo’s just launched Alpha (in beta version, natch). Both of the aforementioned blogs call Alpha a customized search engine similar to Google Custom Search Engine, but Alpha is really more of a multi-search tool that submits your query to multiple sources and aggregates results from all of them […]
Google Desktop Now Out For Mac
Want Google Desktop for the Mac? More than two years after it was released for the PC, it’s finally available for the Mac, says Google (and said also here). And here’s what Mac folks are saying about it on Techmeme.
ZoomInfo Offers Free Company Profiles
ZoomInfo today launched its Business Information Search Engine, a service that offers information on more than 3.5 million companies. Although the company profiles are similar to those offered by Hoovers.com and other subscription-based providers, ZoomInfo business profiles are free. The profiles also differ in how they’re compiled. While most business information providers laboriously compile information […]
Ask Kevin: Ask.com Acquires Kevin Federline’s “Search With Kevin”
I had lunch with Ask CEO Jim Lanzone last Thursday when he was here in the UK, and I’ve been itching to tell the news he gave me under embargo. Now it’s up, with Jim himself sharing the announcement in video. Kevin Federline’s Search With Kevin service is being acquired and merged with Ask, to […]
TiSP: Google Flushes Free Wireless Broadband For All
Now posted on the Google Blog, news of the new Google TiSP service offering free wireless to homes via their, ahem, plumbing systems. Sir Thomas Crapper would be proud. See discussion at Techmeme. Google’s latest feature will better connect you with previous Google products that have been rolled out on the first of April: Google […]
The Matt Cutts Blog Gets Hacked
The Dark SEO Team has had a bit of a beef with Google’s Matt Cutts from back in 2005 over URL hijacking. Looks like they’ve pulled a prank on him today. Matt’s blog is down, hacked — and archives wiped out as well. Matt has posted previously to this about the site being slow (post […]
Google Base & Data Feed Optimization
The vertical search results on the main shopping engines should not be ignored. We’re all very familiar with Search Engine Optimization (SEO), but you can also get to the top of Google through Google Base. I estimate that over 30,000 merchants are taking advantage of Google Base, but only a very small percentage have actually […]
Shopping Search Engine Management Changes
Since I’ve been absent a while (sorry Danny, Chris, and Barry), thought I should first catch everyone up on management changes at the shopping comparison engines.
Google Continues Testing Navigational Link Placement
It appears we have more sightings of Google experimenting with additional navigational link placement ideas. These are links that let you reach various Google search services beyond web search.
TimeSearch: Searching Through History
TimeSearch is an interestingly different search engine, since the focus is just on time, as one may expect from the name. It’s the brainchild of Bamber Gascoigne, (a well known British television presenter of historical programmes and academic quiz shows) and HistoryWorld. The search options are fairly limited – to geographic areas of the world, […]