Category: Search Engine News

Apr 08 2011

Lawmakers Hold Search Engines Responsible For Contributing To Piracy

During a recent hearing on digital piracy, some US lawmakers suggest that search engines must either stop showing results for websites infringing copyrights and selling counterfeit products or be acco…

Jan 24 2011

How Important Are Search Engines To Your Website?

If you own a website yourself, you'll know a few basic reasons why search engines are vital to your business. Search engines offer individuals to find what they are looking for, by simply typing i…

Jan 22 2010

DailyDeals.com – a Shopping Search Engine

Search engines: it seems like the world is overrun with them. And part of the growth of the web has come because search engines have multiplied and morphed in their purpose, function, and appearance. …

Dec 23 2009

80legs: DIY Search Engine, for Free

You can now create our own webcrawler or search engine for free, using the services of 80legs, according to VentureBeat. While 80legs has been charging for its servies until now, it's decided t…

Oct 11 2009

Making AJAX Crawlable

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Google has released a proposal to make AJAX crawlable – and if it works, it would mean bringing tens of thousands of current websites not currently indexed by Google (or m…

Jun 11 2009

Creative Commons Images: Coming to a Search Engine Near You…

Flickr has long had a search tool designed to filter images so that you only see the ones with Creative Commons licenses. A few weeks ago Yahoo! added a similar tool. Now Google wants to get in on tha…

May 26 2009

Three Search Engines You May Not Know About

The Personal Branding Blog took a look last week at three search engines they were betting we didn't know about.

Wolfram was one of the three. We've looked at it ourselves recently. But the …

May 10 2009

Wolfram Alpha: the Next Big Thing?

Stephen Wolfram is a mathematician and physict extrodanaire. And now he's start a search engine that many people think will be the next big thing (and maybe even a Google-killer).

Mashable had a…

Apr 04 2009

Time Lines on Cuil Organize Responses to Your Queries

Search Engine Land had a piece this week on a new feature at Cuil – time lines on some search results.

Cuil is a search engine founded by two former Google employees. It "organizes web pages by …

Mar 26 2009

Middlespot: Visual Searching

TechCrunch had a piece this past weekend on a new search engine that seeks to make searching the web a more visual experience.

TechCrunch rightly points out that Middlespot isn't the first searc…