Yahoo oneSearch has gotten a whole lot smarter – the mobile service is integrating content from both Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia. Frequent travelers will be happy to hear that airline information is getting added, as well.
New Search Engine Has Answers
A new search engine has launched called QueryCat that has indexed frequently asked questions (FAQ) from across the web and made them searchable.
Google Tweak Decimates Answers.com’s Traffic
A small tweak here . . . and a 28 percent plummet there. Yeah, that’s right – Google adjusted its algorithm, and according to Answers.com itself, traffic to the Answers “information portal” has dropped dramatically as a result.
Google Earth Provides Updates, Answers
There’s a fresh post on the Google LatLong Blog, and it’s titled, “Where in the world is…(Answers).” You see, the post informs readers of various geographic locations that were hinted at earlier. But if Google was asking (perhaps rhetorically), “Where in the world is an updated image?” the answer would be, “just about everywhere.”
Google Answers Resurfaces
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, a Russian mystic born in the 1800s, supposedly survived being poisoned, shot, and beaten (though a subsequent drowning did him in). Now Google Answers is also proving hard to kill, and it has resurfaced in the same part of the world.
Cutts (Finally) Answers Paid Link Questions
Awash in good intentions, Google’s Matt Cutts paved a hellish road for himself by asking people to fill out a spam report for paid links. Matt followed up over the weekend (and while on vacation) with details that may have saved him some initial grief.
Google Answers Viacom Lawsuit
No real surprises emerged in Google’s response to Viacom’s billion-dollar copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube: Google denied Viacom’s claims and asked for a jury trial.
Looking for Answers from Yahoo Answers
Yahoo Answers has some explaining to do.
Pet Food Scare Sends Searchers Chasing Answers
When news of a major pet food recall got out, pet owners hit the search engines over the weekend worried about their furry best friends.
One dog, nine cats. That’s the death toll so far in a mysterious outbreak of kidney failure linked to Menu Foods, Inc.’s various pet foods distributed by well-known grocers like Kroger, Safeway, Wal-Mart, and PetSmart.
Yahoo Answers Launches New Social Network
Much was made of Yahoo’s widely publicized failure in reaching a deal to acquire Facebook, the social network that is second only to MySpace in terms of popularity and usage. Rather than focus on the past, however, Yahoo has simply decided to create it’s own social utility.