Pandia Search Engine Wrap-up September 20
Here are some of this week’s headlines from the world of search and search engines:
- Google Searches at 63% of the Search Market for August 2008
Google saw 63% of the 11.7 billion core searches conducted in the U.S. during the late summer month. (SE Watch Sept 19 2008)
- Google’s “Submit Your Content” Page Changes Into Content Central, One Stop Shopping For Publisher Advice
To help centralize submission and inclusion information, Google has updated its Submit Your Content page to make it more into what I’d call Content Central (Danny Sullivan Sept 18 2008)
- Yahoo Adds a Soundtrack to the SERP
You can play up to 25 of the new full-length tracks in Yahoo SERPs per month. (Marketing Pilgrim Sept 18 2008)
- Google Maps for mobile! Geared Up With Street View and Walking Directions!
An entirely new as well as exciting version has been launched for Google Maps For Mobile. (PageTraffic Sept 18 2008)
- That Was Fun, But Now Ebay’s Selling Off StumbleUpon
eBay has hired Deutsche Bank to find the right buyer, says our source, but the asking price is unknown (TechCrunch Sept 18 2008)
- Google Audio Indexing - GAUDI
Google has announced that they have started to index content from various YouTube channels. (Phil Bradley Sept 17 2008)
- Njouba: A New Metasearch Engine
With a little poking around, the service may be the work of a sharp programmer responsible for a number of useful services, including an MP3 search engine here. (Beyond Search Sept 18 2008)
- Google Audio Indexing now on Google Labs
So far all you can do with GAudi is search for spoken words within political videos. (Official Google Blog Sept 16 2008)
- Flickr experiments with new home page
They’ve just shifted things around a little bit and added in links to a few more options (Phil Bradley Sept 18 2008)
- Quintura CEO Yakov Sadchikov - The Interview
Quintura is designed to make it visually simple for searchers to find what they are looking for, and to make it easy for web publishers to expose the content their visitors are looking for. (AltSearchEngines Sept 19 2008)
- Search: Moving Up the Buzzword Chain of Being
My take on this is that everyone needs to be more diligent in defining what terms mean. For example, I want vendors to define what their product does. (BeyondSearch
- Sometimes Google Isn’t Enough: New Research Engine Searches “Deep Web”
This new subscription-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) engine lets you explore content found on the Deep Web. (ReadWrite Sept 18 2008)
- acker Tells How Palin’s E-Mail Account Was Hijacked
Details emerged Thursday behind the break-in of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account (AP Sept 18 2008)
- Sergey Brin Launches A Personal Blog, Talks About His Risk Of Parkinson’s
Google Cofounder Sergey Brin launched a personal blog today at too.blogspot.com. (TechCrunch Sept 18 2008)
- Ahoy! Google Now Supports Pirate Language
The company now translates websites and forms into the pirate language. (Pulse 2.0 Sept 18 2008)
- Barack Obama uses Google to combat vicious rumors
Obama’s campaign has waded into online auctions for Google search terms to snap up not only obvious phrases like “Barack Obama” but also potentially negative ones like “Barack Obama birth certificate” or “Barack Obama as a Muslim” (Daily News Sept 19 2008
- Yahoo Gets a Facelift
A dramatic redesign is underway at the most heavily trafficked site on the internet, making changes that give users a personalized view of the wider Web. (redOrbit Sept 19 2008)
- Search engines: Your questions answered before you ask
Search engines of the future will answer any question, anywhere, at any time, says Claudine Beaumont (Telegraph Sept 20 2008)
- Web 2.0: Google Chrome To Support Add-Ons
Google said it will work hard to make sure its add-on paradigm keeps Chrome stable, unlike add-ons for Firefox and Explorer. (Information Week Sept 19 2008)
- Google Stopped Censoring Human Rights Watch in China
Perhaps Google received an updated blacklist from the Chinese government (Blogoscoped Sept 19 2008)
- Better Not Link to Google News Hosted Articles
Google News hosted articles disappear after 30 days (Blogoscoped Sept 19 2008)
- First image of Google Android HTC Dream: video
The Google gPhone or HTC Android Dream, a first glimpse at first mobile phone to spot Google’s Android. (Phones Review Sept 20 2008)
- Google Launches Feed Advertising
SEO White Hat: Google recently announced on its AdSense blog that they had launched a new feed advertising system, which makes it possible to earn money by putting AdSense units in RSS feeds. (Sept 19 2008)
- Search Engine Rap Battle
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! fights it out rapping. These are some seriously strange videos! (Thanks to Peter from Seedwell for this one!)
Original post by Per and Susanne Koch