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  • Google’s wind power

    Google’s purchase of twenty years worth of renewable energy from an Iowa wind farm (Inside Google July 26 2010)

  • What Does Google Read?

    Want to read like a Google exec? Don’t expect any laughs. (Beyond Search July 27 2010)

  • Apple Search Engine Lightning Bolt to Strike Google?

    Is Apple working on an app search engine and trying to stop Google from doing the same? (Google Watch July 27 2010)

  • Google Images – just like Bing!

    Google Images have had a make over. (P Bradley July 28 2010)

  • Can Ask.com's New Search Strategy Work?

    It’s hard not to think of the new Ask.com community search section as a glorified Yahoo Answers (PC World July 28 2010)

  • What’s New With Bing & Yahoo Search Alliance

    Yahoo is currently testing Bing powered results on about 25 percent of the traffic. (SE Land July 20 2010)

  • Google Images gets major overhaul

    Google tries to ‘get the app out of the way’ (techradar July 2010)

  • French Newspapers Partner To Sidestep Google News

    French newspapers is partnering to create an online news site that they hope will be an alternative to Google News. (SE Land July 23 2010)

  • How To Hide News Sources in Google News

    Google adds “news settings” or “source preferences” which lets you block some sources (SE Roundtable July 26 2010)

  • AOL Keeping Google (And Bing) On Its Toes For Search Deal Pick

    AOL is currently gauging the offers of several companies to power its search (SE Watch July 27 2010)

  • Google's Search-Related Music Store Slated For Holiday Season

    Android VP at Google, Andy Rubin, is having “accelerated” talks with music publishing firm Harry Fox (SE Watch July 27 2010)

  • Bing Generates More Clicks Than Google

    Google users clicked on ads at a rate of 1.09%, while Bing users clicked on ads 1.67% of the time (SE Land July 27 2010)

  • Yahoo Japan Picks Google Search Over Bing

    Yahoo Japan — an independent entity from Yahoo — has decided to forgo the Bing transition (SE Watch July 27 2010)

  • See An Offensive Image On Google? Stay Tuned.

    Google’s report offensive image feature is no longer found in the new design. (SE Land July 29 2010)

  • The New Ask.com: A Little Bit Search, A Little Bit Answers

    Ask.com is re-launching as a cross between a traditional search engine and the question-and-answer service (SE Land July 27 2010)

  • Diller: Ask.com Was The Little Search Engine That Couldn’t

    IAC CEO: “Ask itself is not a large segment of the company.” (SE Land July 29 2010)

  • Street Slide: Microsoft’s Next Killer Maps App?

    Next-generation tool for browsing street-level imagery. (SE Land July 29 2010)

  • 4 Common SEO Copywriting Techniques That Ruin Your Copy

    Stay on Search: Long outdated SEO techniques based on pure, unadulterated myths. (July 30 2010)

  • Google Ordered To Remove Search Results On Sex Charges But Document Still Shows

    The search results were about a sexual harassment case between her and a guy 10 years ago (SE Roundtable July 30 2010)

  • Wolfram Alpha Widgets announced

    Beta release for computational engine apps (techradar Jlu 2010)

  • Google: The "Last Thing We Want" Is The "Best SEO To Win"

    Jeremy Sussman, a Google Local Product Manager has been pretty frank and clear (SE Roundtable July 30 2010)

  • Google With Direct Dictionary Result

    Google now has a onebox of their own immediately offering the definition(s) for certain words you’re searching for. (Blogoscoped July 30 2010)

  • Be a Search Engine Land member & get express commenting, library access, videos & more… MEMBER LOGIN >|BECOME A MEMBER > Study Calls Google ‘King Of Malware’

    Google has twice as much malware in its search results as Yahoo, Bing, and Twitter combined. (SE Land July 30 2010)

  • Google Acquires Metaweb – Smarter Searches?

    Metaweb is a successful and popular semantic search start-up and it will help make Google’s searches a lot more efficient (Google Tutor July 20 2010)

  • The Top Ten Alternative Search Engines

    About.com on the top ten alternative/niche search engines out there on the Web. (July 23 2010)

  • The insane world of “No linking Policy” – what happened to the interNET?

    On companies and sites with a “no linking policy” or “linking restriction policy” (State of Search Kuly 15 2010)

  • Google Removes WiFi Gear from Street View Cars

    Google cars have resumed their tours of Sweden, Ireland, Norway and South Africa (Inside Google July 9 2010)

  • Microsoft’s Search Crawler MSNBot To Be Renamed As Bingbot

    Trivial but a much needed update. (TNW June 28 2010)

  • Google Chrome Creeps to 7.2% Worldwide Browser Share

    Microsoft Internet Explorer rose back above 60 percent to 60.32 percent (Google Watch July 1 2010)

  • Apple Allows Google AdMob Ads for iPhone 4, iPad

    Despite new language in its developer terms to the contrary, Apple is allowing targeted ads from Google (Google Watch July 2 2010)

  • Google News Users Hate Changes, Threaten to Go to Bing

    Many people griped when Google added more refinements to the left-hand rail (Google Watch July 5 2010)

  • Google releases 500 scans of Ancient Greek and Latin texts for research

    Google sharing high-resolution digital scans of over 500 volumes of Ancient Greek and Latin, dating from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. (Inside Google Books June 25 2010)

  • Bing changes interface

    Options for narrowing a search has been moved (P Bradley June 24 2010)

  • China renews Google's ICP license

    Google keeps its google.cn domain ( June 28 2010)

  • Rumour: Google Games still on for 2010 launch

    Google puts $100m into Farmville developer (techradar July 2010)

  • Microsoft Bing reaches 12% of search market

    Bing and Yahoo both gain ground on Google (techradar July 2010)

  • Translating Wikipedia

    Google helps translate more than 16 million words for Wikipedia into Arabic, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Swahili, Tamil and Telugu. (Google Blog July 14 2010)

  • Google News Brings Back Its Old Home Page … Kinda

    In response to sometimes loud and angry user feedback, Google News has tweaked its home page (SE Land July 16 2010)

  • Picture of New Google Image Search Design

    A new design for Google Images. (SE Roundtable July 16 2010)

  • Is Google Getting Sloppy?

    Google Buzz, background images and changes to Google News. Not enough testing? (Marketing Pilgrim July 16 2010)

  • Yahoo: We’re Switching to Bing Next Month…or Maybe Next Year

    Expect a full transition to Bing’s search results as early as August (Marketing Pilgrim July 16 2010)

  • Google Buys Metaweb To Bolster Answers, Google Squared & Rich Snippets

    Metaweb is a search company that figures out entities and not just words. (SE Land July 16 2010)

  • The Australian Federal Police tackle Google

    An official Australian investigation into the search giant’s Wi-Fi privacy debacle has launched. (apc June 6 2010)

  • Google using search engine to muscle into Internet businesses, study finds

    Universal Search favors Google’s properties with prominent listings in its results (Inside Google June 2 2010)

  • Google Health Is Alive and, Er, Well

    Is Google Health, the company’s effort to help patients access their personal health records, dead or in stasis? (Google Watch June 2 2010)

  • Clusty becomes Yippy

    It’s one of the few search engines that I’ve come across that actively promotes censorship. (P Bradley misses the old Clusty June 1 2010)

  • The Ultimate Guide to Torrent Search

    Torrent search engines, torrent clients, torrent sites, and more! (About June 4 2010)

  • A graphic display of what Google knows

    Scott Cleland has pulled together a snappy one-page graphic on Google’s Total Information Awareness Power (Inside Google June 4 2010)

  • Yahoo! Predictalot Goes Global, Takes On World Cup 2010

    Predictalot , a massive crowdsourcing experiment cooked up in Yahoo! Labs, is going global. (Yodel June 4 2010)

  • Google Increased The Title Tag Limit To 70 Characters?

    Google is showing the blue clickable link with a maximum character limit of up to 70 characters (SE Roundtable June 1 2010)

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