Yahoo opened the beta test of SearchScan in several countries to help safeguard people against potentially dangerous links in their search results.
Microsoft Shows Off New Product Search Features
The other day, Doug reported that Microsoft Live Search Mobile had added product search abilities to its arsenal, but that is not all that the softies are up to on the product search front.
Live Search Mobile Looks Into Product Info
Suppose you’re out and about when a product catches your eye. Is the item any good? Is the retailer’s price fair? With a new update, Microsoft is hoping its Live Search Mobile will be able to help you figure these things out.
Small Business Marketing Unleashed: Paid Search
Christine Churchill, president, KeyRelevance spoke about managing a paid search campaign.
Small Business Marketing Unleashed: Local Search
I’ve written about it before, and I’ll write about it again: the only phonebooks around my work desk are the ones raising it and the monitor a few inches higher than they’d otherwise sit. Local search functions well from a consumer standpoint, and a session detailed how businesses can benefit from it, too.
Search Engines Increasingly Important To Video Sites
Video sites should thank comedy shows, car magazines, and news anchors for traffic – they’ve been plugged by all of them. Search engines and social networks also belong on that list, though, and new Hitwise data shows that they’re about even in terms of significance.
Yahoo Ready To Give Google Search Ad Business
Only a few days into what was described as a limited test of AdSense for Search in Yahoo’s search results, rumors began that Yahoo would hand over more business to Google.
Google Book Search Gets Traffic Boost
Some of the features Google introduces do little more than collect dust, while others become extremely popular. The Books Viewability API appears to be part of this second set, as traffic to the UK version of Google Book Search has increased by a dramatic amount since its introduction.
EveryZing Rolls Up Ramp To Universal Search
The core EveryZing business of speech to text technology added a new component, called RAMP, to its search and optimization technologies for indexing multimedia content and making it available to search crawlers.
Ask.com Search Engine – A Brief History
As of this writing, there are five top Internet search engines: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and Ask.com, and while Google and Yahoo! get a lot of the press (particularly lately), the Ask.com search engine is a rather interesting engine that deserves a closer look. This article will cover some of the highlights in its 12-year history, from its start as Ask Jeeves to its innovations, as well as the most recent developments behind the scenes.The Beginning