Google Flexes Robots Exclusion Protocol

Two new features added to the protocol will help webmasters govern when an item should stop showing up in Google's web search, as well as providing some control over the indexing of other data types.

Microsoft Looks Into The Cloud

The favorite of Googlite war cry formats has been to pair up a Microsoft product with the word "killer": Windows-killer; Office-killer; [Insert product here]-killer. Google's free, advertising-based software-as-a-service model is what has made Google, in theory at least, Microsoft's most intense new challenger.

Avatar Seeks Semantic Search

Researchers at IBM Almaden have been developing a semantic search process that can delve into unstructured text to retrieve structured information.

Yahoo’s Conversion Tips

Yahoo's Search marketing blog has 9 tips compiled by the team on how to improve conversion rates while also optimizing landing pages. Best ways to optimize your landing pages:

IBM Sets Virtual World Rules for Employees

IBM’s guidelines for employee bloggers are fairly well known among people who pay attention to such things. Now, IBM has become (as far as I know) the first company to establish a policy for employees who venture into Second Life and other virtual words.