Here is a list of online articles Pandia has found particularly interesting:

Here is a list of online articles Pandia has found particularly interesting:

Microsoft Corp.’s directors met yesterday to consider raising the software maker’s $41.9 billion bid for Yahoo Inc. instead of pursuing a hostile takeover attempt, according to a published report. (May 1 2008)
Microsoft has yet to decide if it will up its $41.8bn (£21bn) bid for Yahoo, go hostile or walk away from the deal. (BBC May 1 2008)
I set up a couple Twitter accounts that automatically send tweets that include Google focused news items, blog posts, bookmarks, and even Digg items that just hit the frontpage! (Google Tutor April 28 2008)
Audiobaba Music Search is a next generation music search engine that allows you to find songs by acoustic similarity. (Phil Bradley April 29 2008)
On the connection between AltaVista and French Exalead and much more (AltSearchEngines April 29 2008)
Yahoo is finally taking the social route in fully connecting its Yahoo Network users across multiple Yahoo platforms in a Facebook meets Yahoo type setting, where users will be able to view the doings of their friends over a central Yahoo social map. (SE
This open source tool known as SearchMonkey will give the publishers the possibility of enhancing their search results on Yahoo! through the inclusion of links, images and name-value pairs in the search results. (PageTraffic April 25 2008)
Back in February, Yahoo announced SearchMonkey, a project that would allow site owners and developers to customize their search engine listings’ appearance and information. (SE Land April 25 2008)
Can Google’s technology automatically analyze what’s inside an image? (SE Journal April 28 2008)
What is the hottest social media tool to emerge on the scene this year? It’s ‘Twitter’, and you may get hooked too… (April 28 2008)
While keyword density is really something SEOs should really stop paying attention to, keyword prominence is a concept that still should be analyzed and evaluated. (SE Journal April 29 2008)
VisualRank works using image recognition software, which groups images together that seem most similar to each other. (Dave Naylor April 29 2008)
Wikipedia is believed to be the most heavily scraped site in the history of the Internet. Bigoak explains why a Wikipedia link may help you (April 29 2008)
Usually PageRank updates aren’t that noteworthy, but it seems something is different about this PageRank update, Barry Scwartz says (SE Land April 30 2008)
Email invitations went out this week to alpha users of the blog tracking software. (Search Engine Watch April 30 2008)
Search Engine Watch quotes the Wall Street Journal (April 30 2008)
Google is planning to map not only the sky and land masses (Google Mars, Moon, Earth, Google Maps and so on), but – according to a report by News.com – also aims to map the oceans. (Google Blogoscoped April 30 2008)
Google in the US is currently promoting a new “artist themes” section for iGoogle via a special logo and text below the search box. (Google Blogoscoped April 30 2008)
Kevin Ryan of Search Engine Strategies spoke with Daron Babin and discussed the current state of the conference circuit with regards to individuals believing that they have been banned from either SMX or SES events. (SE Roundtable April 30 2008)
The enhancements include an expanded image search index, a new integrated mapping experience with Multimap, a location based mobile search feature to “find me,” and more content for the celebrities and books sections. (SE Land April 30 2008)
Aside from the title tag, which isn’t really a part of the visual page, the heading tags can provide both visitors and the search engines significant cues to the importance of your on-page content. (SE Guide April 30 2008)
You can get access to the online version for free through a new program called Britannica Webshare - provided that you are a “web publisher.” (TechCrunch April 18 2008)
Browsing around today I found Guide To Custom Search Engines (CSEs). (Phil Bradley April 15 2008)
Stephen E. Arnold’s most recent study–Beyond Search: What to Do When Your Enterprise Search System Doesn’t Work–is now available from the Gilbane Group. (Beyond Search April 15 2008)
The most anticipated update is the addition of Street View, previously available on Google Maps. (SE Watch April 16 2008)
Previously a computer science professor at the University of Arizona, then a senior vice president at Amazon and Yahoo’s chief scientist, Manber is now vice president in charge of search quality for Google (Popular Mechanics April 16 2008)
With web traffic and popularty measurement startups like Compete.com and Quantcast breathing down Alexa’s neck, the Amazon.com owned company has finally taken steps to rework their ranking system (SE Journal April 17 2008)
The new service automatically shows you top stories grouped into topic on the home page. (SE Land April 17 2008)
While the research company had Wall Street in a panic, with its 1.8% paid click prediction for the quarter, Google tore that number to shreds with a whopping 20% growth in paid clicks! (Marketing Pilgrim April 17 2008)
Microsoft bought Seattle-based airfare prediction and travel site Farecast earlier this month for around $115 million (The Seattle Times April 18 2008)
Google Video redesigned their US homepage again (Google Blogoscoped Aril 18 2008)
Bigreds, an internet retailer has decided to sue Yahoo for $1 million over click fraud starting back in 2002. (SE Roundtable April 17 2008)
The old Urchin web metrics software is finally out in a new version (PageTraffic April 17 2008)
Google is delivering ads to Yahoo! search result pages (PageTraffic April 18 2008)
Mixx, a social media submission site, is a newcomer on the scene, so it understandably will take a while for it to catch up with older sites like Digg, Propeller, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. (SE Land April 9 2008)
Microsoft Corp.’s attempt to take over Yahoo Inc. has become so tortured it may help Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc. grow stronger
Whereas once it was the center of the city that seemed to be one of the most important factors in ranking well for specific sets of local searches, now that may not be the case. (SE Roundtable April 11 2008)
According to New York Times Microsoft Corp. is in talks with Rupert Murdoch about a joint bid towards the acquisition of Yahoo! (PageTraffic April 11 2008)
Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) sIFR is a technique that uses Javascript to read in HTML text and render it in Flash instead. (SE Land April 11 2008)
I believe that the future of search will be considerably more visual than it is today. (Greg Sterling SE Land April 11 2008)
t seems like Google is facing difficulties in mapping URLs and the pages associated to those URLs. (Searchnewz April 11 2008)
At the end of February Yahoo! Search Marketing announced that minimum bid prices for PPC ads would not be set. (Marketing Pilgrim April 11 2008)
Yahoo-tops don’t like the idea of a Yahoo/AOL deal as an alternative to Microsoft (Boomtown April 11 2008)
In the last 24 or so hours, all of the big three search engines have had news about expanding their maps programs. (Marketing Pilgrim April 11 2008)
A new patent application from Microsoft ranks domains based upon the ages of domains which link to those domains. (SEO by the Sea April 11 2008)
Twingly recently launched their next-generation blog search engine at Twingly.com. (AltSearchEngines April 7 2008)
The photograph sharing website Flickr has added the option of uploading videos (Phil Bradley Apil 9 2008)
Users are dissatisfied and work in “information grave yards.” (Beyond Search April 11 2008)
Google is testing how to search local search forms (Beyond Search April 11 2008)
Alltop takes forty popular topics and offers “All the Top” stories from each of the topics. (Researchbuzz April 11 2008)
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