Yahoo and Microsoft announced a search deal. Bing (from Microsoft) becomes search engine behind Yahoo. Yahoo gets the ad revenue share and saves money not having to build search. Microsoft gets Yahoo search traffic. With the announcement, Yahoo goes back to being a Portal Company. The deal is the biggest development in Search Arena in years. Read More »
As the name says, Google Blog Search is a tool to search blogosphere. Blog Search was initially launched as just a basic tool to search blogs and has evolved overtime to include categories and stories on Homepage and added more features later. With all the improved features, Google Blog Search is a tool to be used more frequently if you wish to follow Blog world. Read More »
Bing recently replaced Live Search. Bing is much better version of Live Search and got really good response from community. Read More »
After few days of launching Knol, Google is being criticized for artificially increasing ranking of Knol articles. I decided to take a look at Yahoo ranking for these keywords.
There are few examples shared. Search Engine Land test picked 30 knols from homepage and 10 out of these showed up on first page. Let’s compare these on Yahoo. I am going to check Google again as Search rankings in Google might have changed since the time, article was written. Read More »
Cuil, a New Search Engine, launched today claiming to be better and more comprehensive than Google. Cuil is taking a different and refreshing approach to search. Search results are displayed in columns with more summaries of search results (downside being fewer results per page). Related searches are shown in tabs. Categories are also shown to fine tune results. Cuil has arguably found a way to index web for lower cost and that way they can index more pages faster than current search engines. Read More »
Google extended search capabilities to video with speech to text. Now we can search not only title or description of videos, but spoken content also. This is limited to only few 2008 US election videos in Youtube at this time and will be extended. Using Speech to text capabilities, audio part of the video is converted into text and indexed. Read More »
Custom Search Engine (CSE) is the core technology for the entire Google’s customized search initiatives. This technology is used with some modifications in Google Site Search and Google Adsense for Search and will probably be used for any new initiatives Google undertakes in Customized search area. Read More »
You have created a wonderful sticky site and have worked really hard to make sure customers and users can navigate thru the site to find information and products they are looking for. But users prefer search to find information. Consider adding Google Site Search (previously called Custom Search Business Edition) to help your users find information they are looking for quickly and easily. Read More »
