Google’s Vision of the Future of Image Search

Can Google’s technology automatically analyze what’s inside an image? I mean is it really possible to automatically analyze an image subject then rank it according to the derived description without human intervention? Well for Google’s two scientists who presented a research paper in China last week, it might be possible. Read more on Search Engine [...]

Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point?

As the Web swells with more and more data, the predominant way of sifting through all of that data—keyword search—will one day break down in its ability to deliver the exact information we want at our fingertips. In fact, some argue that keyword search is already delivering diminishing returns—as the slide above by Nova Spivack [...]

Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update

Over the next few days, we’ll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms. While we expect the update will be completed soon, as you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index. More on Yahoo Search Blog

Nielsen Releases March 2008 U.S. Search Data

We’ve already seen the numbers from Hitwise, Compete, and comScore. Now it’s Nielsen’s turn to serve up its March 2008 data for top U.S. search providers. More on SearchEngineatch.com

Google Sued for Fraudalent Ads Charging?

A federal class action lawsuit is being filed today by Kabateck Brown Kellner of U.S. District Court, Northern District of Carolina in San Jose, against Google for apparently charging customers for ads that they don’t want to. More on Search Engine Journal

MSN Live Search Rolls Out Some New Features

MSN Live Search has been rolling out some new features lately. The latest of which being on its Live Search Products which is now sporting a new look and the site suggestion feature of the main Live Search portal which dives in deeper into search results. Read more on Search Engine Journal

Alternative Search Engines Day – Call For Alts to Band Together

I’m at the Alternative Search Engines Day, in San Francisco, an event put on by our network blog AltSearchEngines. We started out with a keynote talk by ASE editor Charles Knight, who noted that alternative search engines only have about 1.7% market share combined. He thinks this is too small, so he wants all of [...]

Can Powerset Unseat Google in Web Search?

Regardless of how good Powerset’s semantic matching algorithms are, and how effective they are at finding relevant search results, I think there are three reasons why Powerset will have a great deal of difficulty in unseating Google as the leader in Web Search. Read the whole post on AltSearchEngines

Yahoo updates search crawler with Slurp 3.0

While Google is experimenting on crawling hidden web pages through HTML forms indexing, Yahoo on the other hand has updated its search crawler with Slurp 3.0. Although the implementation of Slurp 3.0 would not really pose a big implication on webmaster’s part, just the same here are the changes that Slurp 3.0 will bring in [...]

New Medical Metasearch Engine: Scienceroll Medical Search

ScienceRoll Medical Search is a metasearch engine geared for those in the medical community. It consists of several different search engine options along with organizations from which users can pick to conduct their search. Among the medical search engines available are Clinical Trials, eMedicine, PubMed, and WebMD. The organizations include Aids.gov, WHO, and the CDC, among others. [...]