Yahoo has long offered email, an online calendar, notes, bookmarks, and more through their free My Yahoo service. Now Yahoo has expanded this service even more by adding My Yahoo Personal Search to the mix.
Google Tests Expanded Search to Include Printed Works
Google Labs is currently testing Google Print, which returns results from within scanned printed books along with Google’s standard web search results.
Search Engine Facilitates Reserve Price Shopping with RSS
Dulance launched its comparison shopping service in RSS format. Dulance is the first search engine to use RSS technology to facilitate reserve price shopping.
Earning from PPC Search Engine Affiliate Programs
PPC Search Engines are search engines that allow advertisers to list their site within their search results on a pay per click basis. Advertisers bid against other advertisers for the same keywords or phrases. The highest bidder will then have their site ranked #1 in the PPC Search Engine results for a certain keyword followed by the second highest bidder for the same keyword followed by the third highest bidder for the same keyword, etc.
Major Search Engines Still Getting the Traffic
Despite recent publicity of several alternative search engines, as well as general excitement for the broader search industry, search traffic and its growth still resides largely with the major engines.
Search Innovation: Looking for the Average Joe
Google’s beta release of their desktop search tool was their shot across the bow of the USS Microsoft Search. Following hard of the heels of promising technology releases from Blinkx and Copernic, Google is staking their claim to the desktop search space. And Microsoft seems to have been caught flat footed, as they continue to push back the deadline for the release of Longhorn, which will integrate desktop search with the operating system. Many seem to think a search related announcement out of Redmond is imminent.
Blog Search Engine Brings MoBlogs into Search Engine World
Blog Search Engine and IceRocket Search have partnered to bring cell phone pic blogs, or MoBlogs, into the search engine world with a new search feature which produces image results of the latest MoBlogs images available.
Local Search Platform gets Local Web Search Features
PremierGuide announced the addition of local web search features to the company’s flagship local search platform.
Nationwide Local-Search Portal Powered by Interchange
Interchange’s Local Direct search and advertising platform is powering On-line USA’s nationwide local-search portal.
Why you should NOT submit your site on Search Engines
Before to answer to this question we have to know what is the difference between a search engine and directory. Here is a brief explanation.