The Search Engine Blog

Google Page Rank is a strange oddity that means very little yet is discussed over and over again. Many wish it would just go away and be removed from the memories of all Internet land. Here is an excellent write up on what it is and, more importantly, what it isn’t.
What Is Google PageRank? A […]

Microsoft is ending their Submit It! service effective May 18, 2007. Some features of this service will be missed. Others should never have been there. What will replace it? Will they replace it? Does anyone really care? It’s like they never really put their full effort into developing it into a complete tool.
bCentral Transition

Supposedly using semantic search, hakia allows you to type in a question or a statement and obtain highlighted results. The difference between this and your typical highlighting is that it highlights phrases similar to yours, not just highlighting the same words you typed. Powered by Ask (of course), it offers up information in ways you […]

Search across a number of social network sites including MySpace, Digg and others from one web site. This is a great way to find people information without having to visit each site and endure some of the overloaded advertising some of them force you to endure.
yoName - Search for anyone accross social network sites

Google has announced, with little fanfare, a new bidding feature called Preferred Bidding. This allows you to specify an average bid instead of a maximum bid. This means your bid could go over the amount you’ve requested as well as below, but your average will always be the amount you’ve stated.
Interpretation: Give Google control […]

Froogle is retiring to the same home as Jeeves the Butler. Froogle will now be Google Product Search. It’s a simple name that says what it does. Will Google now change their name to Web Site Search?
Official Google Blog: Back to basics

Now why would I want to remove information from Google? Google tends to spider everything your robots.txt file and meta tags allows. Sometimes it can be too aggressive. For those times that Google indexes login pages, password protected pages (or pages that should have been password protected) and other content you want invisible, use Google’s […]

There are rumors of Google purchasing Stumble Upon. Stumble is a service that let’s you bookmark and categorize your favorite sites. You can then share certain links you’ve created. Stumble also allows you to find related or suggested sites similar to the site in question. Of course they are using individual’s data to help with […]

You gotta love research. One study says women prefer Yahoo! and men prefer Google. Another study says there are more women on the Internet than men by a wide margin. Other studies say Google is the most heavily used search engine. Put it all together and it just don’t add up. What really matters is […]

Yet another great idea for socializing on the web is also an avenue for promoting your business. Take a look at the fun tool for putting a scrapbook online with photos, video, and the usual scrapbook stickers and such. It’s a fun interface that produces some entertaining results. Take a look and see how you […]