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 the way it will crawl websites. Read the whole post on Search Engine Journal

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. You may select all or only a few of the options, depending on your search preference. The number of results are tallied for each option you’ve selected. The top clusters are displayed on the left hand side; each cluster is expandable, revealing more keywords and topics. Additionally, ScienceRoll allows you to filter by file format—PDF or Excel. Read the whole post on KillerStartups

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 before. Read the whole post on SearchEngineWatch

European Groups Says Search Engines Must Delete Search Data Within Six-Months

Google, Yahoo Keep User Data Too Long, EU Group Says from Bloomberg reports that 27 EU nations privacy officials unanimously are supporting a new proposal that may require search companies to delete search data before six months. Read the whole post on search engine land

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 biggest month-over-month increase in total search volume since July of last year. Interestingly enough this growth was not driven by our perennial search leader Google. In fact Google actually underperformed the market for the first time in 9 months and saw market share decline more than ½ a point. So where were the big gains? Read the whole post on Compete

The Top 10 Search Engines in The Search Race

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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