Remember Wink? The search engine that uses tagging to find the most relevant results?

Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, will today announce the official launch of adCenter.

AP reports Yahoo is suing seven former exployees, alleging that they stole trade secrets when they left to start MForma Group Inc.

Yet another new service from Google, this one aimed at anyone who wants to create a web page (not a blog) with the minimum of fuss and absolutely no exposure to anything techie:

Google China now has a blog, although I doubt it’ll be talking about the things we think of when we hear the words “Google” and “China” together.

Gary Price is moving on from Search Engine Watch, taking a job as Director of Online Information Resources for AskJeeves, which sounds like a very cool position, so congratulations are in order.

Here’s a link to the “About Google Pack” page. Looks like you at least get something extra with Google Pack.

Well, judging by the reaction to my sponsored links post I’ve struck a nerve. And I have to say, it feels like there’s a lot of unanswered questions and a lot of FUD out there. I’m still trying to digest everything. But so far I’ve found that there are at least three sides to this issue.

Because some web surfers like to disable javascript, websites utilizing Google AdSense are unable to deliver the offering plate to those visitors. A forum thread at Search Engine Watch reveals that there are ways around this problem by adding a few simple lines of code.

With all the back and forth going on about search index sizes, it would be nice to be able to test the claims made by the various engines. Well, it appears as if there may be a way to verify if an engine’s purported index size is accurate.

Yahoo published their patent application for what looks like their Yahoo 360 social networking product. The application, filed last week with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), works on how users look at info in a social network.

There is a great deal of hubbub brewing about Ask Jeeves possibly leaving Google and their AdWords program in order to develop and provide their own PPC advertising service, which is seen as a potentially risky move.

Apparently, through the use of a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) complaint, you can have sites thrown out of Yahoo’s search index. If you file a DMCA report against a site, Yahoo will remove the “offending” site from Yahoo Search altogether, leaving no trace of the site in its index.

Whenever a big-time company acquires new domains, especially when it comes to something the size of Google, many take notice. So when it was revealed that Google had purchased a number of new domain names, those who cover the search engine industry reacted.

While the majority of the search engine news seems to focus on the big players, the smaller search engines are still out there, plugging away at making themselves viable, or in some cases, not viable at all.

I’m pretty certain that it’s not just me that has noticed that MSN Search is just not cutting it within the Search community, or even the wider tech/media blogging circles.

Two surveys by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, indicate that, “by the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture”.

Fox News reporter John Gibson argued that the BBC had displayed “a frothing-at-the-mouth” anti-American bias. In response to some complaints about this coverage Fox News said searching for the phrase “BBC anti-american” in the Google internet search engine resulted in 47,200 hits.

One popular method of raising rankings is the buying of links from high PageRank sites that often have no relevance to the subject of the buyer’s site. Google discourages this practice, stating, “Many sites that advertise link-sharing programs not only offer little value., but will distribute your email address without your permission.”