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  • Google Rules Mobile Search — for Now, Report Says

    Popular search engine Google not only dominates the web game but has taken to lead the mobile search domain globally as well, a report from Web browser company Opera said recently. (PCWorld June 27 2009)

  • Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out

    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline. (Wired June 22 2009)

  • More real-time search startups join the fray

    Real-time search allows users to find out what’s happening now on any topic, unlike traditional search engines, which bring up the most authoritative results over time as judged by page links. (The Industy Standard June 26 2009)

  • Study Suggests People Prefer Bing’s Design To Google’s, But Still Won’t Switch

    Prior to the test, all the subjects used Google as their main search engine. Following the test, 4 out of the 12, or one third, said that overall they preferred Bing. (TechCrunch June 25 2009)

  • Can Someone Please Tell Us How You Determine What’s A ‘Legal’ Search Engine From An ‘Illegal’ One?

    I’ve had a lot of trouble with courts around the globe pinning blame on search engines for what they find, using a questionable interpretation of the law for “contributory” infringement or “inducing” infringement. (techdirt June 26 2009)

  • Dump Google? Bing is more user-friendly

    Bing, the search engine from Microsoft, has a better design than Google, a usability study from Catalyst Group has found. (ComputerWeekly June 26 2009)

  • How to Turn Your PowerPoint Presentation into a Video for More Exposure

    You have some great video content to promote and generate additional leads! (SE Journal June 26 2009)

  • Google News Now with New Author Search Feature!

    Use advanced search option on Google News. (PageTraffic June 24 2009)

  • Bing Gains Major Paid Search Share in Two Weeks

    According to Efficient Frontier’s latest analysis, Bing’s share of paid clicks increased to 13% from 8% prior to its launch two weeks ago. (SE Journal June 24 2009)

  • Kayak to Bing: Stop Copying Us! - Update

    Kayak, the popular multi-airline airfare search engine, thinks Microsoft Bing’s new travel search engine looks so much like its own that it’s confusing Kayak users. (Wired June 24 2009)

  • Moving up in natural search

    The Google Grants blog offers a course in search engine optimization (June 24 2009)

  • China Blocks Google, YouTube This Week, Could It Become Permanent

    Given China has its own internal search engines and the government has strict control, Google has acknowledged it is censoring search results in the country. (SE Watch June 27 2009)

  • Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search

    The rush of traffic was so severe that Google initially thought it was under attack. (SE Land June 27 2009)

  • You Know You Work In Search When You…

    …have more logins than you do pairs of socks. Chelsea Blacker’s Top 40 (Marketing Pilgrim June 26 2009)

  • 9 SEO Tips for Attractive Search Engine Friendly Web Design

    Creating a website design that is appealing, while also search engine friendly, is one of the hardest parts about SEO web design. (Marketing Pilgrim June 26 2009)

  • Once Touted As A Google Killer, Cuil May Deal With Search King

    Cuil is talking to Google about a text ad deal (Yahoo Finance June 23 2009)

  • Is Bing a viable competitor to Google - a 1st month review

    Since the 10.8 percent UK peak on the 3rd, traffic to Bing has declined quite considerably (SearchCowboys June 23 2009)

  • Google hands Bing a pagerank 9

    The pagerank lift for Bing is remarkable. Not only is the leap from a PR2 to a PR9 pretty high, it’s also remarkable that a site which might be Googles biggest competitor in the next coming years gets such a high PR from their main rivals. (SearchCowboys

  • Exclusive: Yahoo Working on Major Brand Overhaul (Pretty Please, No More Yodeling!)

    The new branding of Yahoo, said several people close to the situation, might be built around the latest relaunch of its main homepage design. (BoomTown June 24 2009)

  • Google Starts Including Wikipedia on Its News Site

    The inclusion of Wikipedia articles among the thousands of publications used by Google News began as an experiment that was seen by a small percentage of users (NYT June 21 2009)

  • Want Your Google News To Show Up in Google Finance?

    You need to include the full ticker name, prefixed by the name of its stock exchange. (SE Roundtable June 2009)

  • Book Seer suggests books to read.

    Nice resource - simple, easy and quick to use. Great to have easy to hand at the public library enquiry desk when the question is asked. (P Bradley June 23 2009)

  • A Google Vulnerability Exposed

    Google’s attention is on its leapfrog technologies such as Google Fusion and Google Wave. Both of these are manifestations of a larger Google play. (Beyond Search June 22 2009)

  • When It Comes To Search Trends, Google Is Lagging Behind Bing

    One feature where Microsoft seems to be edging out Google is with displaying recent search trends. (TechCrunch June 21 2009)

  • Google Voice About to Launch?

    Google Voice is a VoIP service that allows you to give everyone a single phone number and have calls forwarded to multiple phones. (About Google June 21 2009)

  • Truveo Relaunches with Improved Video Search Tools

    Video Search Engine Truveo Updates Website To Make It Easier To Find Video On The Web (AltSearchEngines June 25 2009)

  • 100 Tips, Tools, and Resources for Twitter Research

    Twitter has exploded into a must-track resource for news, rants, consumer reports, public health, shopping deals and emerging trends (Select Courses June 10 2009)

  • Why Yahoo! Will Never Recover

    Yahoo!’s new CEO, Carol Bartz, has made a series of mistakes early in her tenure, and the company probably cannot recover from them either. (24/7 Wall Street June 21 2009)

  • Kosmix tries new twist on search to avoid Google’s dominance

    Kosmix, based in Mountain View, is getting attention for its efforts to differentiate itself as a better way to navigate the growing online clutter. (Mercury News June 24 2009)

  • Google Disables Gmail SMS Text Chat After It Goes Wonky

    Google is again having trouble with its SMS text message tool, the experimental feature in the Gmail Chat menu (Google Watch June 26 2009)

  • Search every known species on Earth with the EOL.

    The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious, even audacious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth. (AltSearchEngines June 26 2009)

  • Google CEO says worst of crisis is over

    Schmidt said he did not want to comment on a report that Google had set up a team of engineers to study the technical specifications of Bing (Yahoo Tech June 26 2009)

  • Wall Street Journal Bleeds and Blames the Vampire Google

    I am a subscriber to the WSJ print edition and find the online edition too annoying to use. (Beyond Search June 27 2009)

  • Michael Jackson has died: internet searches for reports crashes Google news

    So many people wanted to verify early reports of his death that the computers running Google’s news section interpreted the “Michael Jackson” requests as an automated attack for about half an hour. (Telegraph June 26)

  • China to Google: No porn, or else

    Google has acknowledged that the Chinese government asked it to disable a search feature with the goal of censoring pornography (Cnet June 19 2009)

  • Google Street View Imagery Leads to Arrest

    Dutch twin brothers who mugged a teenager in the northern town of Groningen were arrested after being caught on camera by a car gathering images for Google’s online photo map service (Blogoscoped June 19 2009)

  • Google Goes Rainbow For Gay-Related Searches

    Google is once again flying rainbow colors to support gay pride celebrations (SE Land June 19 2009)

  • Google’s Matt Cutts on PageRank sculpting

    Probably the most popular way to envision PageRank is as a flow that happens between documents across outlinks. (June 15 2009)

  • Google’s censorship struggles continue in China

    On June 4, 2009, Google.cn blocked all searches for “Tiananmen Square,” even ones not related to the massacre that took place on that date in 1989. (Cnet June 16 2009)

  • Does Lycos want to get back in the game?

    Lycos wants to re-launch their search services pretty fast (Search Cowboys June 17 2009)

  • Google Fires Back At Bing, Launches “Explore Google Search”

    A new Explore Google Search page. (SE Land Jun 17 2009)

  • Google News Hit By Spammers

    Articles redirect to affiliate pages (SE Roundtable June 17 2009)

  • Microsoft tackles Richmond trio for ‘click fraud’

    Three Richmond residents have been sued by software giant Microsoft for “perpetrating a massive ‘click fraud’ scheme.” (Richmond Review June 17 2009)

  • Google Germany to Erase Internal Unblurred Street View Data On Request

    Google Inc. is willing to concede to German demands the company erase photos for its panoramic mapping service (Google Blogoscoped June 18 2009)

  • Microsoft’s Search Engine Optimization Advice for Bing

    Microsoft recently published a PDF about Search Engine Optimization called Bing: New Features Relevant to Webmasters. (SE Land Jun 18 2009)

  • Bing Maps: A revealing discussion on Ch. 9

    The Bing Maps for Enterprise, previously known as Virtual Earth, is a team of some 600, with 260 developers (Liveside.net June 18 2009)

  • Google adds Flash indexing with external resource loading

    This means that when a SWF file loads content from some other file—whether it’s text, HTML, XML, another SWF, etc.—we can index this external content too (Google Webmaster Central June 18 2009)

  • Google Joins Twitter in Iran Election Buzz : Adds Persian Farsi Translation

    Google has added Persian (Farsi) translation to their Google Translate tool. (SE Journal June 19 2009)

  • Google Flipper Is About To Jump Out Of The Water

    The project is a visual way to read Google News, or to flip through it, as it were. (TechCrunch june 18 2009)

  • It Ain’t Over ’til the Fat Lady Bings

    Bing kicked off with a bang on June 1, doubling the number of unique visitors MSN/Windows Live received on the previous day and nearly overtaking Yahoo! Search for the No. 2 spot. (Nielsen Online June 16 2009)

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