Category: The search engine industry

Google competes with Commission Junction with its own affiliate network.

People from AltaVista and Google launch new search engine.

How many Web pages are there out there, really? More than 1 trillion, Google reports.
The fact is that no one knows the exact number, and the fact that a lot of the content is hidden behind database search forms means that we never will.
Still, the search engine companies make a living out of spidering the […]

Microsoft, Yahoo and Google have developed a detailed documentation about how they implement the Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP).
The search engines’ robots go wherever they want as long as they find links to follow. This means that they may index everything they find on your site or server unless you tell them explicitly not to.
There […]

The never ending Microsoft courtship has led to another loud “No!” from the prospective bride Yahoo! Pandia explains it all.

On June 19, Joshua Schachter, the founder of del.icio.us, decided to resign from Yahoo. Why did he leave and what does it mean for del.icio.us?

Del.icio.us was among the first social bookmarking services to see the light of day. At the time it was acquired by Yahoo, it was a very exciting product. It was the leading social bookmarking tool with a large and active community and lots of cool tools to save and exchange bookmarks.

Since del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, this world class product has wilted on the vine.

Microsoft has announced that it will establish a new European search technology center, but Norway is not listed as one of the options.
Yahoo! is not the only company stumbling around as a confused and dazed kid in the search engine store.
Microsoft is doing its best to catch up with Google in the search engine […]

Steve Ballmer of Mircrosoft talks about the fight with Google and lays out the company’s plans for the future of search.