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Search Engine Geared Towards African-Americans, Good Business Or Bad?

Last week, IAC introduced a new search engine, Rushmore Drive, aimed at the roughly 12.4 million African-Americans online in the US.My question for any African-American reader–and anyone else who has an opinion–do you really want such a search engine?

More On Using Google Can Become A Habit

In last week's Search Insider, I introduced the idea of habits, and why they can be hard things to break. This week, I want to explore how search engines can be habit-forming as well. Cognitive Lock-In

Ugg, Wii Obsess Holiday Searchers

The scarce Nintendo Wii ranked as the most searched-for item during the holidays, while Ugg boots drew the most luxury item queries.

Google, Search Drives Health, Travel Traffic

Websites in the health & medical and the travel categories received substantial traffic driven to them from search engines in November 2007.

November Search Share, A Poem

Google picked up more than 65 percent of the US search market in November 2007, while Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask all ceded a few tenths of a percent each in share.

AskEraser Elevates Privacy Standard For Search

Ask.com launched its AskEraser service across all of the search engine's products, where people can opt to erase their search history with a single mouse click.

SES Chicago: Soaring Through Universal Search

Searchers represent a valuable commodity to search engines, and the keen-minded technologists behind the algorithms want to make search sites as useful as possible, no matter what the query.

Publishers Push ACAP As Robots.txt Improvement

The Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) debuted today as a set of improvements to deficiencies seen in the robots.txt protocol currently observed by search crawlers.

Truveo Brings Video To CBS Radio

Media continues to mesh into an amalgam of all kinds of content, the latest example coming in the form of a deal between AOL's Truveo video search and CBS Radio.

Ask.com Gobbles Up Thanksgiving Week

Turkey queries and Black Friday deal searches rate among the places Ask believes its search engine can help the typical person around the holidays.