SearchNews

Under the right circumstances, search engines can turn the names of a person's city and state into ugly words; users looking for local info may have to type them over and over u...

Does Facebook Face A Google-Like Issue With “Like Farms” and “Like Buying”?

Facebook may be going through some of the growing pains that Google went through earlier in its life. Google has always had to deal with link farms and link buying, polluting it...

Google Adds Company Logos to Locations in Google Maps

Google announced a new feature for businesses in Google Maps in the U.S. today. The feature lets businesses include sponsored map icons that appear on the maps themselves. The f...

Google Now Indexes SVG Files

Google is now indexing SVG files. SVG, which stands for scalable vector graphics, is a widely-deployed, royalty-free, XML-based format for vector graphics and support for...

Greplin is Real Personalized Search

There's a new kind of personalized, social search available that may trump any effort we've seen from Google to date in this corner of search. Greplin is a new s...

Google Outlines Display Ad Strategies

Google has an interesting post up today on its official blog, outlining its efforts i...

Facebook Gets Click-Based Search Relevance Patent

Facebook has been granted a...

Yahoo Expands Local Listing Partnership with Dex One

Yahoo announced today that it has expanded its partnership with Dex One to allow listings on Yahoo Local. "This broadens the reach of D...

Yahoo Advertisers Can Begin Transitioning to Microsoft adCenter

Yahoo and Microsoft announced today that Yahoo advertisers can begin their transition to Microsoft's adCenter. "Last week, we completed the transition of th...

Google-MySpace Deal May Be On For Another Month

It looks like MySpace's dealings with Google aren't over - or conclusively continued - just yet. Even though a search and advertising deal is set to expire today, a report...

Yahoo To Lose Major Ad Deal In South Korea

Today is not getting off to a good start for Yahoo. NHN - which owns both the South Korean equivalent of Google and the country's largest gaming portal - has decided to st...

Google Launches Stats for Blogger

Google has launched Stats for Blogger, a Blogger feature that was previously available in the experimental version of Blogger, Blogger in Draft. The feaure is fairly self-explan...

Google and the AP Renew an Old Content Deal

Google and the Associated Press have renewed their content-licensing deal, which will enable Google to continue serving hosted AP stories to Google News readers, and possibly us...

Yahoo Canada Partners With Zoocasa

Canadians with an interest in real estate should now get more use out of the Yahoo homepage. Yahoo Canada has partnered with a company called Zoocasa to launch a new appli...

LinkedIn Recruiter Gets New Search Filter Features

LinkedIn has launched new search filter features for LinkedIn Recruiter. The company has taken advanced search and refinement...