Category Archives: search engine

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Voice Recognition

Adobe has updated and released its Creative Suite 4 for professional media production (aff). This latest version is Adobe’s largest software release to date and contains six application bundles. A new feature that I particularly keyed in on is Creative Suite’s ability to recognize human speech contained in a video.  That is awesome!  This means […]

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Yahoo! Rolls Out Web Analytics Beta

Five months after acquiring web analytics company Index Tools, Yahoo! has announced that they are launching Web Analytics Beta. That is actually a pretty quick turnaround, I think. There is quite a bit of work involved in platform modification. Maybe the threatened mutiny by Yahoo! shareholders fanned the flames 🙂 . Currently, the Beta version […]

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Microsoft Opening European Search Centers

Steve Balmer of Microsoft announced Thursday that they were opening 3 R&D centers in Europe as part of their ongoing efforts to catch up to Google in Search Engine market share.  The search center locations would be in Munich, Paris and London. Microsoft also announced that it was going to be increasing its $600 million/yr […]

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New Microsoft Pay to Search Program

Microsoft started an initiative back in May called Live Search Cashback which provides rebates to users of its search engine who search for and purchase products through Microsoft Live. It was a novel approach to attempt to increase search engine market share.  Currently, Google has a commanding lead at about 63%.  Yahoo! is second with […]

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Wikia Search Update

Wikia Search was launched in Alpha earlier this year and we have been watching it out of the corner of our eye to gauge its progress.  At first, wow, it was bad.  The search results were slow and chocked full of irrelevant sites.  But, hey, it was only an alpha release and creating a new […]

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Cuil First Impressions

By now, I would imagine that everyone in the SEO world has at least heard of the new startup search engine called Cuil (pronounced “cool”).  It is run by some former Google employees, uses different  algorithms and shows the results in a layout similar to a magazine or newspaper. As one might expect, an announcement […]

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Yahoo Updates Search Algorithms

Yesterday, Yahoo announced that they are in process of rolling out some algorithm changes.  This means, don’t freak out if your Yahoo! rankings are fluctuating. Even though Yahoo and the other search engines lag way behind Google in market share, they still have approximately 20% of the market.  So, you can’t completely ignore them when […]

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Microsoft Pays You to Search

In an attempt to lure people to its Search Engine, Microsoft announced a plan that will give a rebate to searchers who search for products through Live Search and make their purchase at a qualifying vendor. When you search for a products, you will see links displayed that have the little graphic shown here. Make […]

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Yahoo Responds to Microsoft – Again

Since Microsoft’s attempt earlier this month to bully Yahoo into submission, Yahoo decided to publicly respond. In a letter sent over the weekend, Roy Bostock and Jerry Yang had a few barbs sent Microsoft’s way: As a follow up to a recent meeting among our respective legal advisors we had on this topic, and at […]

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Google Selling Performics

When Google purchased DoubleClick, they also became the owners of Performics – Search Engine Optimization company. There was a lot of talk in the SEO/SEM community about that being a conflict of interest – a Search Engine company owning a Search Engine Optimization company. Last week Google announced it will sell off the Performics portion […]

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