Search Engine News Wrap-up Feb 14
Here are some of the articles we have found interesting this week:
- What Else Would You Like to See on Google Search Results Page?
FireFox addons that let you access alternative data right from Google SERPs based on your search query (SE Journal Feb 10 2009)
- Yahoo! oneSearch Shortcut: Now with Auto-locate, Improved Search Assist, and Windows Mobile Client
Several new features for the Yahoo! oneSearch Shortcut, including an auto-locate feature that uses cell tower triangulation and Wi-Fi to detect the user’s location (Yahoo! Search Blog Feb 9 2009)
- Eight Ways to Help Google News Better Crawl Your Site
From time to time, publishers ask us what they can do to improve their listings in Google News. (Google News Blog Feb 11 2009)
- Google Throttles Blog Search Indexing
SEO Theory takes a look at the downturn in Google Blogsearch quality and indexing over the past couple of months. (Feb 12 2009)
- Google Launches New Social Media Blog!
New blog covers all the latest happenings and news about Google’s social networking and media efforts in future. (Page Traffic Feb 10 2009)
- Google Friend Connect Launches its Social Bar
The Social Bar makes it easy for site owners to beef up the sociability of their sites by adding a a social toolbar which will contain the different gadgets featured on Google Friend Connect.
- Specify your canonical
Google now support a format that allows you to publicly specify your preferred version of a URL. (Official Google Blog Feb 12 2009)
- Moving a Data Center - Big Project, and Big Results…
Ask moves its data center (The Ask.com Blog Feb 10 2009)
- We’re not the bad guys: Google Earth boss
The head of Google Earth has hit back at those who claim that the free virtual mapping program is to blame for aiding and abetting recent acts of terrorism. (Sidney Morning Herald Jan 31 2009)
- How Microsoft is trying to make its $1.3b Fast Search deal work
Microsoft still expresses optimism about the prospects for Fast overall. (TechFlash Feb 10 2009)
- Time to Say Goodbye to Yahoo! MyWeb
As we have continued to innovate with the 2.0 release of Delicious and the upgraded Yahoo! Bookmarks, we saw that MyWeb users’ needs are being served by our newer products. (Yahoo! Search Blog Feb 13 2009)
- New Search Engine Wants to Give You Just the FAQ
Check out SnappyFingers, a Q&A search engine that has a data set of over 13 million questions. (ResearchBuzz Feb 10 2009)
- BOSS Update: Open Monetization, Pricing, Structured Data, and More
Yahoo announcing plans for implementing usage fees for BOSS. (Yahoo! Search Blog Feb 11 2009)
- Google Tests a New Interface for Google Suggest
Cameron Beyer spotted an experiment that simplifies the interface for Google Suggest and adds Google’s search buttons below the list of suggestions. (Google OS Feb 7 2009)
- GPeerReview - Is Google Changing Science?
GPeerReview is, in short, a command line tool that allows people to post reviews of some one’s work. These reviews then get linked to the work and are publicly available. (Google Tutor Feb 12 2009)
- Google Japan’s pay-per-post fiasco
Google punishes Google Japan for pay-for-post practice (Multilingual Search Feb 11 2009)
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Original post by Per and Susanne Koch