Searchboth.com brings together Google and Yahoo!

Link: Searchboth.com brings together Google and Yahoo!
Filed under: Yahoo! News, Google News, Search Engine News, Internet News

Searchboth.com, a new site from IdeaLabz and the Toll Free Yellow Pages, delivers search results from both Google and Yahoo! in split-screen format. When a query is typed into the site's search box, the site displays results from Yahoo! on the left side ...

 

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Yahoo provides OneSearch for mobile users

Link: Yahoo provides OneSearch for mobile users
Filed under: Web Development News, Software News, Wireless News, Yahoo! News, Marketing News, Search Engine News, Webmaster News, Internet News

Yahoo has launched an Internet search system for users of internet-enabled mobile phones. The service will start in the US, but will be rolled-out to international markets later in 2007. The service, called OneSearch, which was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics show in January, ...

 

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Wikia to build search engine

Link: Wikia to build search engine
Filed under: Webmaster News, Search Engine News, Internet News

Wikia, the commercial version of non-profit online encyclopedia Wikipedia, is planning to build a search engine which could capture up to 5% of the Internet search market. The search engine would aim to compete with market leaders Google and Yahoo. The news was revealed ...

 

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New Storm Worm inserts links in user messages

Link: New Storm Worm inserts links in user messages
Filed under: Google News, Webmaster News, Search Engine News, Security News, Internet News

A new variant of the Storm Worm has been detected, which inserts unsolicited links into blogs and forums which can infect other users if clicked on. The original Storm Worm was rand was mass emailed to hundreds of thousands of people ...

 

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New Search Engine May Understand Plain English

Link: New Search Engine May Understand Plain English
Filed under: Companies News, Search Engine News, Internet News

Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California is licensing a broad portfolio of patents and technology to Powerset, a well-financed start-up company, with the aim of developing a search engine that could eventually compete with Google. Powerset is licensing PARC's "natural language" technology, which ...

 

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Google pushes maps into search

Link: Google pushes maps into search
Filed under: Marketing News, Ecommerce News, Google News, Webmaster News, Internet News, Search Engine News, Business News

Google has announced that it's featuring the use of Google Maps more prominently in many local searches on the search engine. The result is that when searching for services located in major urban areas, a section from Google Maps will be displayed, showing key ...

 

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Google drops bombs

Link: Google drops bombs
Filed under: Web Development News, Google News, Webmaster News, Search Engine News, Internet News

Google has implemented a change to it's search ranking algorithm, which removes existing Google Bombs. Google Bombs - also known as Link Bombs - were primarily set up by campaigners looking to make a political statement using Google. For example, when bloggers decided to set ...

 

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Google: Update in progress

Link: Google: Update in progress
Filed under: Ecommerce News, Google News, Webmaster News, Search Engine News, Internet News

Google engineer Matt Cutts has announced a new Google update is in progress. Although he reports that PageRank is only publically updated quarterly, the actual value is updated more or less daily on Google's servers. Matt Cutts also tried to reassure webmasters that having pages ...

 

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Adsense keyword filtering - trial

Link: Adsense keyword filtering - trial
Filed under: AdSense News, Google News, Webmaster News, Search Engine News, Internet News

Caydel reports that Google is testing keyword filtering for Adsense publishers. According to comments made by Joost de Valk, a beta version is already being trialed - in which publishers can filter ads based on the keywords triggering ads. Although Adsense publishers would prefer ...

 

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Google changes cause concern

Link: Google changes cause concern
Filed under: Google News, Search Engine News, Internet News

Changes that occured in Google results over the Christmas period have raised concerns, particularly for independent adult sites. Google engineer Matt Cutts indicated that no changes had been made to the Google algorithm - the key feature that ranks webpages for relevance. ...

 

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Micrsoft bCentral directory to close?

Link: Micrsoft bCentral directory to close?
Filed under: Webmaster News, Search Engine News, Microsoft News, Business News

The Microsoft small business directory at bCentral appears to be closing down. Microsoft is no longer accepting submissions to the directory, and additionally are directed to a new set of online services - which are focused on website design and development. The ...

 

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Microsoft search suffers serious flaws

Link: Microsoft search suffers serious flaws
Filed under: Webmaster News, Software News, Search Engine News, Microsoft News, Security News, Internet News

Serious flaws in the new MSN Live.com search engine have been revealed, which could adversely affect websites. The first is that MSN search is reportedly unable to handle 301 redirects, a common internet protocol used online to indicate that a webpage - or ...

 

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Google threat to TV revenue

Link: Google threat to TV revenue
Filed under: Marketing News, Ecommerce News, Google News, Search Engine News, Internet News, Business News

Channel 4's Chief Executive, Andy Duncan, has said that online advertising is a threat to TV revenues. He highlighted this by pointing out that at the current rate, Google's revenues will outstrip Channel 4's revenues by the end of the year. Andy Duncan has already ...

 

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Google assures Christmas not cancelled

Link: Google assures Christmas not cancelled
Filed under: Google News, Ecommerce News, Webmaster News, Search Engine News, Internet News, Business News

Google has confirmed that it has no plans to apply a major change to how it ranks websites in its search results before this Christmas. This comes after the past two years have seen major changes implemented before the Christmas shopping season. In both previous ...

 

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Google addresses W3C link selling

Link: Google addresses W3C link selling
Filed under: Google News, Webmaster News, Search Engine News

Google has addressed recent complaints over the W3C selling links on its website. Google engineer, Matt Cutts, told John Battelle in an interview that a controversial page that allows webmasters to pay for listings on the W3C site now had a "index, nofollow" ...

 

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