Pandia Search Engine News Wrap-up May 24
From Wolfram Alpha to the coming of the new Microsoft search engine, Pandia keeps track of the search engine news headlines.
- Forget Kumo — Will Microsoft’s New Search Engine Launch Soon As Bing?
Perhaps Microsoft will surprise people by going with the strongest online brand it has, MSN (Danny Sullivan May 20 2009)
- Yahoo: We’re Moving From Web Of Pages To Web Of Objects
On how to more closely aligning user intent with search results and mapping those to real-world tasks (SE Land May 19 2009)
- What Will the World Do with More Search Engines?
The trouble with the search-engine business is that its future may have almost nothing to do with whether search results get more accurate. (Time May 20 2009)
- Google Updates Their Logos
Google is freshening up their logos for products like Google News, Google Labs, and Google Docs. (Marziah’s Google Blog May 23 2009)
- Yahoo Introduces Voice Search On iPhone
Yahoo comes to the party more or less six months later than rivals such as Google (Alt Search Engines May 22 2009)
- YouTube Ordered To Pay $1.6 Million To ASCAP
You may remember last year around this time, a district court set a totally arbitrary royalty fee that AOL, Yahoo and RealNetworks had to pay ASCAP for music streamed over their services. (TechDirt May 19 2009)
- Bing Kumo: The New Search Super Star
News of Microsoft’s new search engine. (Beyond Search May 21 2009)
- Could Anti-Google Choices Re-Energize Yahoo?
Can declarations by tech celebrities (the technorati, as it were) start a snowball effect that impact the usage patterns of regular people? (Traffick May 22 2009)
- Google Enables Simpler SearchWiki Notes Sharing
If you are logged in to Google and you have notes on search results, you can share those notes with friends. (SE Land May 22 2009)
- Google CEO: We Considered Buying A Newspaper
Search Engine Land May 21 2009
- Google Launches New Search Suggestions & Drops Counts
Search Engine Roundtable May 21 2009
- Want Your Listing to be Approved in DMOZ? Use Real Titles
Directory editors hate submissions that are not designed for the directory user (SE Roundtable May 21 2009)
- Kumo, Bing, or ???: Are secrets extinct?
In the next few weeks, we’re going to be hearing a lot about Microsoft’s new brand for search. (Liveside May 21 2009)
- Wolfram Alpha Approaches 100 Million Queries
The Mathematica-based tool has skyrocketed in traffic. (Mashable May 23 2009)
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