Over the years, various technologies have been tried out to make computers perform actions and tasks that humans cannot do. But here’s something happening that is the exact opposite. Ggoal is a totally human powered engine, completely organic. It’s almost a man versus machine scenario. But the concept in itself is interesting. Let us learn […]

A European advisory body has criticised leading search engines for not being transparent. It sees hardly any justification for their practice of retaining information relating to all search queries for as long as 18 months; something that Google and other search engines do. It wants to know about the actual use of such information.

It’s just a start-up but Relona has demonstrated with statistics that there is still scope for a lot of improvement in the search engine market.
Relona has come up with a technology that challenges the relevance of the search results given by the big players. There is an enormous amount of content on the web and […]

Yahoo! has partnered with Vlingo, a speech recognition company to help them use a voice search function for the second version of its mobile search engine oneSearch. “This is really a sea change. This is not about simple Web links any more,” said Boerries, executive vice president of Yahoo’s Connected Life unit.
Yahoo! has said this […]

The tendency of Australian users to type key words into the search engines occasionally using misspellings has provided advertisers an idea to get around the increasing cost of paid search engine advertising, found ReachLocal. For instance instead of using the word “cosmetic surgery” – which is comparatively expensive - “boob job” can be used as […]

Microsoft has launched a massive ad campaign with the intention of promoting Microsoft Live Search. An email pertaining to their ad campaign was doing rounds. A SEO guy from Search Engine Watch Forums received the mail from Microsoft. The mail mentioned that Microsoft wanted to make all users aware of the commencement of a phase […]

Many regional search engines have come up since last few years, but most have met with limited success. One such exception is a search engine called Naver.com, which originated from South Korea. Taken from the English word “navigator” ‘Naver’ was launched in 1999 as the first portal to provide search services in the country.

A new search engine based in UK, called Everyclick.com, raises money for charity, each time a user conducts a query or search on its website. Everyclick.com hopes to triple its earnings for the year 2008, due to the expansion in US and new links with big firms.
Everyclick operates in the same way as Yahoo! And […]

Integration is the key to create a homogenous social environment and many companies and professionals have suddenly risen to the fact. Mahalo is one such example with its Follow feature.
Mahalo has proved the effectiveness of integrated ventures by adding support for social network biggies StumbleUpon and Facebook.

Ask.com just launched a privacy tool in order to ensure that no IP addresses or queries with users search patterns will be stored by Ask’s servers. Seems like this new marketing effort is trying to rebrand Ask.com as Internet’s least intrusive search engine.

Online consumer confidence is on the rise. The latest figures from IMRG are showing that 76 % of online shoppers have confidence in the web security. At the same time online shoppers satisfaction with product and service information remains steady at 76 %.
What do people shop online?
Do you know what’s popular to shop online? […]

Getupdated Internet marketing Ltd are about to become one of the world largest full range internet marketing companies.
A letter of intent has been signed to acquire one of England´s leading Search Engine Optimisation companies, Just Search Ltd. The price will be £8.8 million and a earn out based on the profit for 2008 […]

Steve Ballmer are on a European tour to discuss Internet marketing and PPC (Pay Per Click) in particular. On Friday he visited Stockholm and was happy to speak about Microsoft’s ambition that over 30 % of the company’s income should come from internet advertising.
PPC been growing faster then expected
Mr Ballmer admits that he is surprised […]

Yahoo just improved their search engine with a few new features. Images from Flickr are now embedded in the main results page. Always nice to see a picture of the artist you search for and some of the top songs by the artist. A screenshot from Yahoo search for Amy Winehouse are shown below.

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