Vivisimo and Microsoft combined technologies to power the FirstGov.gov search engine, which launched three months ahead of schedule.
MSN Search Users Not Buying Explanation
Ken Ross, general manager for MSN search, posted about MSN’s cooperation with the Department of Justice subpoenas, but quite a few commenters disagree with the company’s stance.
An Interesting Take on Search Engine Positioning
An interesting perception of search engine’s and the linking or lack thereof to relevant news and news articles of interest has been offered up in an article on sys-con.com.
Meta-Search Engine Strokes Your Ego
Who’s got a bigger ego, me or David Utter? According to egoSurf.org, David does. He wins by 124 ego points. Yes! I am THE KING of non-egotism. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Utter!
Search Engine As Web Browser
Nielsen/NetRatings recently reported that 43% of online searchers use their search box like an address bar to navigate the internet.
Google Grabbed 46 Percent Of Search
The November 2005 figures from Nielsen//NetRatings on search share didn’t change a bit from the month prior, as nearly 70 percent of searches passed through Google or Yahoo.
A9 Now Has People Snoop, Er, Search
Amazon’s A9.com search engine now lets you be a giant gossipy snoop. Zoom Information Inc., a search engine engineered to collect information on people and offer automatic summaries about them is now the default source of people information on A9.com.
Is Every New Search Engine Just a Feature?
Glancing over press for a new social search engine, prefound.com, I’m struck by a few (hopefully of the “pre-found” variety, as my grandaddy used to pronounce “profound”) thoughts.
One Million Facts On MSN Search
The MSN Search team did something more remarkable than plug in about a million more facts into the Instant Answers feature set: they updated their blog!
$4.7 Billion Spent For Search Engine Placement
The Center For Media Research (CMR) reported on the study and projects even more will be spent in North American, hitting $11 billion by 2010. These totals including payments to search engines and search-related media companies, search engine marketing agencies and in-house expenditures in support of those programs. The programs they included covered search engine optimization, organic search engine optimization, and search engine market technology platforms.