A brief description of what it means when Yahoo farms out its search engine to MicrosoftJuly 30th, 2009 A look at how the Microsoft-Yahoo deal will workAlthough Yahoo and Microsoft could soon be working together on Internet search, their collaboration would mostly occur behind the scenes. Consumers would still see Yahoo's logo striped across Yahoo.com.
1-Minute Guide To Protect Against Search Engines Tracking Using Firefox BrowserAugust 9th, 2006 Recently AOL released 20 million web search queries, over a period of three months, from 650, 000 AOL search engine users. The data anonymizes user identity by assigning them numerical id.
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft collaborate to clean up webFebruary 12th, 2009 NEW YORK - In a rare instance of collaboration among otherwise fierce rivals, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft said they would support a new web standard that will allow millions of publishers to remove duplicate pages from their websites. As a result, search engines would be able to make their search results more comprehensive.
Google Remains the Top Search EngineMay 19th, 2009 Google retains its top slot in the search engine market being the destination for largest number of web surfers in April. According to the recent data released by comSourceThe searchers throughout the month touched the 9.5 billion mark.
How To Easily Use & Manage Your Search Engines in Opera BrowserNovember 10th, 2006 Opera Browser is the best in terms of search engine integration. It allows you to easily add your own search engines, access search engines by a single alphabet and finally set any search engine as the default.
Google provides peek into new search engine with different results rankingAugust 11th, 2009 Google provides peek into new search engineNEW YORK — Google has lifted the lid on a new version of its search engine, allowing users to look at the results it will generate. The new engine, available at a separate address, looks the same as the current one but ranks results differently, which could affect businesses who rely on Google results to drive traffic.
In Defence of Google Web SearchJuly 9th, 2006 Nowadays it is common to complain about the accuracy of Google web search results (not image search as I have done in my earlier post). Most of the people complaining about Google web search are SEO types and those who have been affected by sudden lack of Google love.
New Search for Simple ThoughtsFebruary 23rd, 2008 Simple Thoughts blog now boasts a new and improved search facility, thanks to Google customized search. Now you can get the search results on our site with our look and feel, without having to go to Google.
MSN Search features hand-crafted results?December 7th, 2004 My review on MSN Search elicited the following response from MSN Search's Weblog:
Angsuman Chakraborty thinks that we released the Beta too early. He also questions the veracity of our site descriptions.
Google Unveils U.S. Government Search SiteJune 19th, 2006 Google Inc. unveiled a search site today to help you find U.S. government information.
How to prevent robots (Google Bot, MSNBot, Yahoo Slurp! etc.) from displaying cached pages of your siteApril 12th, 2005 Site Owners often detest the fact that google caches an old copy of their site and displays it on searches which brings up the site pages. A simple way to prevent robots (including Google, Yahoo etc.) from caching your site contents is to include the following within the head section of your web page.
Google ventures into movie search!February 28th, 2005 Another feather in their search engine cap!
Microsoft always claimed that it loves competition, looks like finally it got one. I wonder when Microsoft will go for purchasing Google...
Statistics & Interpretations: How Using Google Search Makes You Richer or Does it?December 8th, 2005 InfoWorld published results of a survey which found Google search users were more net savvy and more likely (statistically significant) to have household income above 60, 000 USD, in comparison with competing search engines like Yahoo, MSN etc.. Unfortunately some of us tend to misinterpret results of such survey and infer erroneous causal relationships like - A way to get rich would be to use Google Search or MSN Search users are dumb (wouldn't you love to make that inference?).
Google Down!January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.
How To Create Your Own Search Engine in Opera?November 10th, 2006 You can easily create your own search engines and even assign keywords to them in a minute or so. This mini-tutorial will show you how you can add any WordPress blogs search as one of your search engines.