Tag: search engines

Blekko Makes “Donation” Of Search Data To Common Crawl
Alternative search engine blekko announced today that it is "donating" 22 billion pages' metadata to Common Crawl, a non-profit foundation, which maintains an open crawl of the web...
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U.S. November Search Engine Rankings: Google And Microsoft Up, Yahoo Down
comScore has put out its monthly search engine rankings for the United States, looking at the month of November. Google sites made up 67% of e...
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Blekko Launches New Suite Of SEO Tools
Blekko announced the launch of a new suite of premium SEO tools today. The suite features a re-designed user interface, and a number of new feat...
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SEMPO Urges FTC To Review Search Labeling Transparency
The SEMPO (Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) Board of Directors has sent a letter to FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz regarding searc...
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September U.S. Search Market: Google Up, Microsoft Flat, Yahoo Down
comScore has released its latest numbers for the U.S. search market. They show Google sites up 0.3% in September at 66.7%, followed by Microso...
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Porn Search Engine Search.xxx Launches to Make .xxx Browsing Safer
If your daily porn searches have led you to some of the more sketchy, unsafe places on the internet, a new search engine may be of interest to you. It's called...
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News Corp. Publications To Unblock Search Engines
Back in 2009, news came out that News Corp. would block search engines from some of its content, such as that from The Times and The Sunday Times. Now, it seems N...
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Search Engines Remember 9/11 On Homepages
The major search engines are remembering 9/11 today on the tragedy's 11th anniversary. Google has not put together an elaborate doodle or anything (they usually stick to more upbea...
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Is DuckDuckGo Gaining Ground on Google?
In recent years, the search industry has not changed a lot in terms of large players. Google has maintained the leader position with its ownership of nearly 70 percent of search ma...
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Yahoo! Sinks as Google and Bing Rise
The comScore search engine data for April isn't out until tomorrow, but Search Engine Land has an unnamed source that has...
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Experimental Search Engine Removes Top Million Sites From Your Results
Do you ever feel the search results that Google yields are too mainstream? Are you looking to explore the cavernous, cobweb-laden outer reaches of the interwebs? If you want to s...
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Google Isn’t as Privacy-Friendly as it Once Was
When Google was first incorporated, their unofficial motto was "Don't be evil". And, for the most part, they stayed true to...
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Bateflix Is Netflix’s Porn Recommendation Engine
Attention everybody who hasn't discovered internet porn, or wants to see some nudity & sex in a real storytelling context (sorry, internet porn), some guy has created a search engi...
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Vint Cerf Believes Google Could be Toppled
No, this is not an alarmist reaction to...
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Bing Search Quality Insights: New Blog Series Sheds Light On Bing’s Inner-Workings
Google recently started a series of blog posts highlighting various points of progress it has made in its efforts to increase search quality. The results have essentially been...
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