ScanSafe’s Scandoo site allows visitors to perform queries on two major search engines and see if links returned on the search results are safe, questionable, or unsafe.
Google Upgrades Blog Search Tool
If you’ve ever frequented Internet forums or blogs, you’ve probably seen it happen-a thread goes quiet, becomes dormant, and for all intents and purposes, dies. Then a year later some goober comes along and replies to it. A new tool from Google will help eliminate these occurrences.
Executive Job Search: Find a Job Faster
Got a difficult problem in your job search? Say, a lack of networking contacts? Or trouble answering interview questions?
Walking in the Search Engines Shoes
You know the old saying about not criticizing someone until you walk in their shoes.
How Microsoft Could Win The Search Wars
There’s been a lot of news recently about Microsoft’s new efforts to take on Google. Much of the visible battle concerns IE 7.0, Microsoft’s in-Beta browser, which contains a search box whose default setting points to MSN’s search.
Justice Unworried About IE7 Search
Google had complained to US and European antitrust regulators about Microsoft including a search box with MSN Search as the default in Internet Explorer 7, but the Department of Justice had no problems with the feature.
Search Engines Could Deliver Risky Sites
Querying for risky keywords puts the searcher at risk of being sent to a site that could prove malicious, but even queries for popular keywords poses some risk too.
Gannett Discovers Local Search
The newspaper publisher picked up Planet Discover, a local search and integrated advertising technology company, for its publication websites.
Local Search Hosts The Ad Battleground
The major online players, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, all have advanced their efforts at serving local markets with improved mapping products, high-quality imagery, and advertising tools aimed at bringing the offline small business into the online world.
Relevancy Rules in Sponsored Search Ads
Let me quote some rather startling numbers to you from a recent eye tracking study we did. In the study, we looked at where people first looked on a search results page, where they first scanned a listing, and where they eventually clicked.