Alexa Embraces Web Developers

Amazon.com's Alexa unit has been turned into a web service, to allow developers API access to the search engine's database.

Googles Golden Triangle

"It's not the searcher, it's the engine," said Gord Hotchkiss, President and CEO of Canadian search engine marketing firm, Enquiro. Hotchkiss, presenting at SES Chicago last week, was relaying some telling eye-tracking data, comparing where users' eyes fall on major search engines like Google, MSN, and Yahoo. Google, with its "Golden Triangle" eye-tracking pattern, seems to produce results faster than the others.

Yahoo Updates Its Widgets

The mini-applications provided by Yahoo after its purchases of Pixoria/Konfabulator have received some new entries and a tweaked engine to run them.

Irish Luck To Bring More Google Jobs?

700 more positions at Google's Dublin-based European headquarters may be opening soon, and bring to 1,000 the number of people working in Dublin for the search advertising company.