Search Engines

Google Takes U.S. Share From Yahoo In July; Baidu Now Third Largest Search Engine In The World (ComScore)

TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Google keeps gaining search market share in the U.S., but its global dominance is not as great as previously indicated. Last night, comScore released its search market share and query growth numbers for July and Lehman Brothers reported the numbers in a note this morning. Here are the main search market share percentage numbers in the [...]

• U.S and Global Search Share: Google's Ups and Downs - Seeking Alpha

Search Engine Hacker Reveals Chinese Gymnasts' True Age

Daily Tech (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Proving once again that search engines can be some of the greatest hacking tools on the internet

Lieberman to Speak at GOP Convention

Truthdig (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Here’s some news that’s bound to spark outrage from within the Democratic ranks: None other than Sen. Joe Lieberman, former Democrat and 2000 vice-presidential candidate with Al Gore, is slated to speak at the upcoming Republican National Convention in Minnesota. AP via Yahoo News: Lieberman will deliver a speech when Republicans gather in St. Paul, Minn., to nominate McCain for president, a party...

• Joe Lieberman Will Speak At GOP Convention - How soon can we kick him out? - Crooks and Liars
• Lieberman both courted and loathed - Political Intelligence
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Indian Courts on Search Engines

Slaw (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago

Indian courts have recently become involved in two issues affecting the operation of search engines in that country. According to the Hindu Times, the Supreme Court in New Delhi has “issued notice” to various search engine companies — Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, etc. — on a petition claiming their violation of the Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic [...]

More Best Search Engines You Probably May Not Have Heard Of

Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

Scouring the web for information can be a tall order, especially when you’re treading in unfamiliar waters. Heather Johnson, from BestCollegesOnline.com, has put together a list of 50 Awesome Search Engines Every Librarian Should Know About. My personal favorites: Get...

Pick Your Search Engines at Hittery

Google Blogoscoped (Free subscription) | yesterday

Hittery.com presents you with a whole bunch of specialized search engines as widgets, and you can customize the dashboard by moving, removing, or adding specific search engines. It's a bit like iGoogle but for search engine widgets only, and taking the opposite approach to "universal search" approach by Google, which aims to deliver all necessary results from the same single search engine. One downside...

• Pick Your Search Engines at Hittery - SEOCentro - SEO News

Get A Personal Search Engine Dashboard With Hittery

ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | yesterday

As you may know, we are very fond of custom search engines here at ReadWriteWeb. We find them incredibly useful and we hope you do, too. In the past, we've shared many of our CSEs with you and we've showed you how to build CSEs of your own . So of course when we came across this new site called Hittery , we were really excited. A whole personal dashboard filled with CSEs you can customize? What could...

New visual search engine TinEye could be a major breakthrough for photographers

Gadgetell (Free subscription) | yesterday

Section: Computers , Software / Applications , Imaging , Web Developed by the Canadian company Idee, the TinEye search engine is a fantastic new breakthrough in the realm of search engines that allows users to search for their photographs anywhere on the Internet. Users are able to actually search for a picture by uploading it, and then having the program run a pixel by pixel search across the ‘Net....

• New visual search engine TinEye could be a major breakthrough for photographers - Best Gadgets World
• TinEye Is An Impressive New Image Tracker - Pulse2

MEDgle proves popularity of medical search engines keeps growing

The Next Web (Free subscription) | yesterday

The last couple of months, quite a large number of medical/ health start-ups have emerged. These sites are not without controversy. The following conversation about ZocDoc, covered by my co-editor Boris at TechCrunch 40, says it all: Guy Kawasaki, who was one of the members of the jury, said ‘I just don’t see it. You search [...]

Diaroogle Locates Public Toilets [Search Engines]

TechBlogger (Free subscription) | yesterday

Webapp Diaroogle is a collaboratively edited database of publicly available toilets in New York City, with plans to expand to other major cities. Search Diaroogle for a public restroom based on zip code or intersection and add toilets they come across with reviews and pictures. If you’re not in NYC and need to find [...]

• Diaroogle Locates Public Toilets [Search Engines] - Lifehacker

Create custom search engine dashboard at Hittery

D' Technology Weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday

Hittery lets you create a personal search dashboard with a whole bunch of specialized search engines as widgets. You can add, remove, drag and drop searchboxes to customize your dashboard with a choice between two types of search engines: Custom search engines show results from carefully selected websites that publish useful and trustworthy content. This way, you will not get [...]

Eastern Europe Search Engine Seznam May Sell For Over $900 Million

Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

Seznam is the leading search engine in Czech. Seznam has 62% search engine market-share in Czech and Google has 29%. Rumor has it that Seznam is searching for a buyer. Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) are in the list of speculative buyers. Other speculative buyers include private equity firms, Warburg Pincus and [...]

BOSSMan: Build Your Own Search Engine With Yahoo And Ruby

Ruby Inside (Free subscription) | yesterday

Recently, Yahoo! launched BOSS - the "Build Your Own Search Service." In all but name, it appears very similar to their older Yahoo! Search API, as it allows you to query Yahoo's search index programatically. Under the surface though, Yahoo has removed the 5,000 query per day limit, you're unrestricted in how you present the data returned, you can re-order the data, and no attribution is required....

Creative uses of Google Custom Search Engines (CSEs)

D' Technology Weblog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

One interesting way to build a customized search experience is by using linked Custom Search Engines (CSEs). With linked CSEs, you can create a dynamically defined search engine that can be updated automatically. As an example, you can check 2008 Summer Games site, Custom Search box in the upper right corner that will offer you [...]

What Do You Use Search Engines For?

Stowe Boyd's (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008

Chatting with colleague Dan Thornton I said outloud something that's been festering at the back of my mind. And I want to share it with you. "I only use search to find people and companies. For everything else I follow...

What is Google Page Rank all about?

wbsage | 4 hours ago

When we first look at the words ‘Page Rank’, we can clearly understand that it is all about ranking of a page. Well, whether it is about printed-paper or a web page is a great question to a layman. To be more precise, ‘Page Rank’ is basically concerned with web pages of a website. Every page in a website are valued differently. It is a very intricate task, to give a detailed mathematical explanation

Advertising on Google’s content network

peterbrooke58 | yesterday

Advertising on Google’s content network introduces several new advertising techniques designed to be more user friendly and targeted. The enhancements are frequency capping, frequency reporting, improved ads quality, and view-through conversions. The new frequency capping enhancement will enable advertisers to have control over the amount of times the same ad is viewed by uses, creating a more user...

Coworker wanted

somanzameer | 08/19/2008

Coworker wanted Start and test with no investment absolutely free. I’m looking for a coworker who wants to earn $150.00 - $500.00 per day. Work is online, very easy and it takes about 2 months or less with a little effort to reach $60.00/day. Daily work: Monitoring statistic of Search Engines Communicating with potential applicants Referring new applicants Required approximately 2 hours of work per