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Search Engine News Weblog Archive October 2004Below find older entries to the Pandia search engine news weblog. For the latest search engine news, go to the Pandia Search World page or the Pandia Search Central home page. New Google Cheat Sheet(October 29 2004)Google has added a new help page -- called Cheat Sheet -- presenting various search operators. There are, for instance, a few field operators that are not that well known. The "safesearch" operator will filter out adult content. Hence when searching for information on the movie "Beautiful Girls", you can use the following syntax: safesearch:beautiful girls. You can also ask Google to search for pages related to one you find interesting. related:www.pandia.com will for instance bring up Search Engine Guide, Search Engine World and ResearchBuzz. Our Google Q-card has more of Google's field search operators and tips on Google's search syntax. For a general introduction to Web searching, see our Goalgetter Web search tutorial. Source: PR Weaver Blog Yahoo! adds mobile search(October 29 2004) Following in the footsteps of Google, Yahoo! has launched a cellular/mobile phone search service. The service lets user search for local information on businesses (shops, restaurants etc.) and Web resources. Yahoo's image database -- which now contains some 1 billion images -- is also supported, in thumbnail format. Like Google, Yahoo! allows the use of search shortcuts that returns weather information, stock quotes, sport scores, flight information and more. Phones that can handle HTML pages can also access regular Yahoo! search results. It should be noted that this is not a SMS based service like the one offered by Google. Yahoo! mobile search requires the use of WAP or readers that support HTML. For the time being the service only works on a few US phone operators. Given that Pandia is located in Scandinavia, we have been unable to test the service. Google goes 3D(October 29 2004) Google has acquired the mapping company Keyhole Corp. Keyhole's software lets searchers enter a location in a search form and get a 3D digital image of the location in return. The images are based on satellite and airplane images. For now the database mainly contains pictures of larger, US metropolitan areas, but Keyhole will add more images as time goes by. Users may zoom in on locations from space-level to street-level, and tilt and rotate the view. The tool can also be used to search for other information such as hotels, restaurants or subways. The software is not free, though, even if Google has reduced the price from US$ 69.95 to 29.95. Windows is required. Your PC needs a graphic card from one of the following manufacturers: NVIDIA, ATI, Intel, 3D Labs, Wildcat, Matrox or S3. Google press release Meet Pandia at Search Engine Strategies in Stockholm(October 24 2004) Pandia will be at Search Engine Strategies in Stockholm 27-28 October 2004. Pandia's Per Koch will be taking part in a panel on European Search Landscape October 27 from 11 a.m. to 12 a.m. The race for Total Search intensifies(October 23 2004) The technology race between Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! is intensifying. Microsoft is hurrying to catch up with Google after the launch of Google Desktop Search. A date has now been set for a similar, MSN-branded tool. Yahoo! recently acquired the e-mail software company Stata Labs which sells an e-mail application called Bloomba that lets people search message text and attachments. Pandia has more on the race for Total Search. UK search engine marketing trade association in the making(October 23 2004) UK Search engine marketing professionals are planning the formulation of a UK based trade association. The proposed Search Marketing Association UK (SMA-UK) will work to inform the marketplace of the benefits of search marketing. Another job for the new association will be giving its members an industry voice. Pandia has more on the proposed Search Marketing Association UK. Yahoo! Search gets a face lift(October 20 2004) One of Yahoo's better kept secrets is it's simple search engine interface. We are not talking about the yahoo.com home page, which brings up a large number of portal related text blocks and ads, but the page found at search.yahoo.com Yahoo! Search is the uncluttered version of Yahoo! It's pure search and pure information. The new incarnation of Yahoo! Search has become more Google-like. The page has been reduced to a Yahoo logo, a few text links and a search button. This is clearly the tool for those of us who are interested in the Yahoo! search engine only, and who look elsewhere for news and ads. By the way, if you are looking for the "old" Yahoo! directory, you will find that one at dir.yahoo.com. Pandia has also a fast loading alternative home page for searchers with slow modem connections, and a separate directory page. Pandia upgrade(October 20 2004) The number of Pandia readers has been increasing significantly lately. We have therefore moved Pandia to a larger and faster server. The transfer seems to have gone smoothly, but if you find any serious glitches, do not hesitate to let us know. Our partner CurryGuide -- the one powering the Pandia metasearch engine -- has also updated its system, again in order to improve speed and reliability. Hopefully this will make Pandia an even greater place to visit. The Answer Search natural language search engine(October 17 2004) The Norwegian company Stochasto is getting ready to launch their natural language search engine technology, Answer Search, in English. "This is not keyword search with a layer of natural language on top," says Stochasto CEO Jan Husby. "This is real natural language search based on an extensive database of vocabulary, conjugations, phrases, grammatical rules and semantic contexts." Read more about the new search technology in the latest issue of Pandia Post. Supersized virtual library in the making(October 17 2004) New Jersey Institute of Technology is developing a huge index of reference listings. Pandia has more about the new meta information engine. Web Search Garage - a comprehensive introduction to Internet searching(October 17 2004) Tara Calishain is one of the most respected Web search experts in the world, so when she publishes a book, searchers pay attention. Pandia Post presents her new guide to Web searching. New AOL home page on the way(October 16 2004) America Online is quietly testing a redesigned version of its home page. It seems they are moving towards becoming a Web portal again. The test page for the new design has an uncluttered layout, fresh looking icons and a soothing color scheme. All of this makes the page easy and pleasing to navigate, and we like it. Read more about the new AOL homepage. AOL testing desktop search(October 16 2004) America Online is testing a new search engine that scans for files on a PC's hard drive, not unlike Google Desktop Search launched this week. AOL's desktop search is powered by third-party technology. The desktop search tool is offered as part of a test version of a standalone Web browser that AOL is developing. AOL spokeswoman Anne Bentley has confirmed that a desktop search tool is being developed and that it is tested alongside the AOL Browser. The AOL Browser may launch as early as November, according to Bentley. By launching its own desktop search engine, AOL hopes to keep up with Google, Microsoft and others in the race to expand the success of Web search into new arenas. This might be a challenge for AOL, since so far they have invested little to develop their own search technology. Google launches desktop search(October 14 2004) Google has launched a new desktop search tool that lets you search your email folders, local files, web history files and chats, and get the results within a regular Google search result page. Pandia has more about Google Desktop Search. Google Print expanding(October 14 2004) Google increases the amount of full text e-books in their index by letting publishers automate promotion of their full text e-books. Read more about Google print's expansion. On the new MSN search engine(October 13 2005) Microsoft is working hard to get its new search engine ready, possibly as early as this winter. The new MSN search engine will replace Yahoo's search technology as the engine of the MSN portal. MSN recently arranged a special workshop where invited search engine experts could test out the new engine. Now it's your turn. Go to MSN's search technology preview page and test the search engine for yourself. You may also send MSN your feedback. Webmasters all over the world are now preparing for the real launch of the new search engine, the objective being to get as many high ranking listings as possible. There is no submit webpage form at the moment, but if your pages have inbound links from sites that are listed, MSN's robots will normally find them. MSN has developed a set of guidelines for webmasters with information on how to get pages listed. Among the main messages are:
The following spam techniques are definitely frowned upon, and may lead to the removal of your site from the MSN index:
MSN search discussion forum
Google adds SMS search(October 11 2004) Google is currently testing a service in the US that lets you send in an SMS mobile/cellular phone message and get search results in return. Read more about Google's SMS phone service Yahoo! tests personal search(October 5 2004) Yahoo! has launched a beta test version of its new My Yahoo! Search feature, adding personalized search. Pandia has more on Yahoo's new bookmark service. Be afraid, be very afraid!(October 4 2004) Search engine marketers tremble in anticipation of the next Google update. Pandia discusses the possibility of Google launching a new index and revised search algorithm. Searching for printed material using Google(October 4 2004) Google has included the text of some printed material in its database. But how do you find the text of these books and articles, and are there any good alternatives? Lars Våge takes a look at Google Print. Google wins google.no domain(October 1 2004) In July we reported on the Norwegian company SMSFUNN that had been selling "google.no" sunglasses at the google.no domain. Google brought them to court and lost the first round. However, finally an Oslo court ordered them to transfer the domain to Google Inc. Well, this week the newest version of Google was born as a Norwegian. For a list of all country domain see the Google language page. Source: Google Blog. See also Aftenposten (in Norwegian). Writing search engine friendly newsletter copy(October 1 2004) If you want visitors to return to your site, you will have to provide them with valuable content. A newsletter helps you develop a routine for adding content to your site. In the second part of our series on newsletters and search engine marketing, Garrett French reflects on how to build content that serves your readers and customers as well as the search engines. MSN establishes search engine expert focus group(October 1 2004) Microsoft is working hard to get its new MSN search engine ready for prime time. The company knows very well that it had better be perfect if it is to convince experts and searchers alike that it has developed a "Google killer". Hence it makes sense for them to invite selected search engine experts to a "fall camp" to present and discuss the new technology. eWeek reports that Microsoft's Internet division has invited dozens of web loggers, librarians and others to its Redmond, Washington, location next week for a "Search Champs." These "invitees" will also meet many of Microsoft's search engine researchers. The main focus of the event will probably be the testing of the new search engine. For a period earlier this year Microsoft opened their new search engine to all that were interested. This time they will ask the experts only for feedback. At the same time Google is doing their best to meet the Microsoft challenge. The latest rumor has it that Google is preparing a new Google browser, taking the battle into Microsoft's turf. The war of the desktops has definitely begun. See also: Scobleizer Blog and mamamusings blog Go to search engine news and articles for September 2004. Please note: The links on archived search engine news pages will not be updated! | ||
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