MIKE WENDLAND: Consumers the victors in battle of the search sites
The hottest battle in personal technology is Microsoft vs Google and its being fought over who youll use to search cyberspace and your desktop
Sniping along the perimeter of the battlefield are a whole bunch of other contenders familiar names in the Internet searching world such as Yahoo Ask Jeeves Firefox and even America Online
For consumers its a winwin war resulting in more choices more relevant information and a way to finally manage the information overload that threatens to bury us when we try to find specific information online or on the files of our bloated hard drives
Microsofts new Search httpsearch...
How To Play In Google's Sandbox
The Theory
There has been a theory floating around that Google is now imposing some kind of penalty on brand new web sites or sites that seem to acquire a large amount of links from other sites in
a relatively short period of time It is being discussed on all the search engine marketing forums Many articles have been written about it Even several live examples have been
presented by frustrated web site owners and managers who cant seem to understand why their sites will not rank well in the Google search engine results pages s...
Ask Jeeves Buys Trustic's Bloglines
February 08
By
Brian Morrissey
Ask Jeeves said it bought Trustic owner of the Bloglines service for publishing and searching newssyndication feeds
The purchase brings Ask Jeeves an Oakland Califbased search company one of the leading providers of Really Simple Syndication readers which let users organize syndicated Web content like blog entries and news headlines Bloglines founded in also has an index of more than 280 million Web content elements including news feeds blog articles video and audio
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed...
Microsoft turns spotlight on its search engine
a mode in a special section of the com portal while the main search section continued to be powered by the Yahoo technology
The new Search powered by the Microsoft search engine will let users search not only Web sites but also content from Microsofts Encarta encyclopedia and Music Kroese said
Search also features a variety of tools to let users adjust searches such as narrowing results by language or domain The search engine also has the ability to deliver search results from a specific geographical area a feature called search near me
Also on Tuesday Microsoft will introduce a redesigned home page for...