Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: Microsoft Shows Off Coming Improvements To Bing App’s Voice Search Microsoft has shared video of what was a confidential, employee-only demonstration of new voice search capabilities in its Bing app for […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Confirmed: Google Panda 2.4 Update Arrived This Week Google has confirmed that the latest iteration of its Panda algorithm update is live. Based on our tracking of the algo changes, this […]
While the US government accuses Google of, in part, favoring its own properties in search results, Yahoo appears to be doing the same thing on download-related searches. And, in the process of offering downloads of popular software, Yahoo is also offering searchers additional downloads including the Yahoo Toolbar. This was first spotted by GFI Labs, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Ask.com Expands AnswerFarm Q&A Database Continuing its move from being a traditional search engine to an “answer engine,” Ask today has announced that its “AnswerFarm” database has tripled in size, from […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Yahoo has announced several enhancements to their continued open strategy. Some of the updates revolve around Yahoo products including Yahoo Mail, My Yahoo, the Yahoo Toolbar and Yahoo Updates.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that downloads of the Yahoo Toolbar for Internet Explorer will now have “as you type” search suggestions functionality. Yahoo has been on a search suggestion frenzy lately, last month launching search suggestions on Yahoo.com and beta testing Yahoo Search Assist.
Mike Grehan spotted Google testing a new feature that appears to enable you to add URLs of your choice to particular searches. Mike searched on “digital cameras,” and at the bottom of the results up came a message from Google that looked like this:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
CA and Yahoo have teamed up to offer a co-branded version of the Yahoo Toolbar. This Yahoo Toolbar will be bundled in all CA Home/Home Office products. CA Anti-Spyware will continue to power Yahoo’s anti-spyware feature in the toolbar. From the press release:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Reuters reports Yahoo China has won a lawsuit brought against Qihoo search engine for unfair competition. The lawsuit first came to light back in September. The court found that “Qihoo’s 360safe software prompted users to de-install the Yahoo Toolbar by making users believe the toolbar was malware — software that users download unknowingly and is […]
A new survey from McAfee finds that AOL has the "safest" search results in terms of not listing sites that might be somehow be risky or unsafe for searchers. But most interesting to me was the fact paid results across the board were found far riskier than free, organic results. Let’s do the numbers, some […]