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

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 [...]

Yahoo and Google Partner Again : Serving AdWords in Yahoo Results

Is the end of Yahoo Search Marketing near? Yahoo has announced that they are running limited tests of AdWords sponsored search ads (or Google AdSense for Search, which are AdWords served in the search results of non-Google search properties) beside Yahoo Search results. Read the whole post on SearchEngineJournal

Blended Search Results Change Searcher Behavior

If you’re not yet optimizing your news, image, and video content, you need to start. Another study released this week backs up previous research indicating that blended, or universal search is changing the way users search. Making sure your specialized content is showing up in search results is now even more important than it was [...]

March Search Market Share: March Madness in the Search World

Things were ticking along nicely in the search world with not so much as a speed bump to be seen (set aside the market panic about Google’s paid click decline). Then along came March. Overall volume of search in March exploded, with total queries increasing over 6% and surpassing the 9 billion mark. That’s the [...]

Google Tweaks Universal Search with Horizontal Video Results

Google Blogoscoped has a screenshot running of a new addition to Google Universal search which serves horizontal videos in the Google search results, freeing up more room for other results and taking full advantage of Google SERP white space. Read the whole post on Search Engine Journal

Yahoo Unveils Upgrades to Mobile Search Platform

Yahoo has announced upgrades to its mobile search platform, oneSearch. The 2.0 version of the service includes brand spankin new features to make searching on the go a little easier. Read the whole post on SearchEngineWatch