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Microsoft has announced that they will release Longhorn, their new operating system, without WinFS. This means that Microsoft’s new OS will arrive without a desktop search utility.

Roland Piquepaille writes “At least, the founders of Tableau Software, a small company established in 2003 and based in Seattle, come from Stanford University, where they worked down the hall with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin back in 1997

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When this blog launched, several folks asked about the name. They read it as “why search blog?” and wondered why we picked such an odd name More

Yahoo shortcuts are special features designed to help you to find answers quickly. Yahoo! Search offers the following Shortcuts: Read the rest of this entry »

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 30, 2004 Looksmart, a leader in Internet search, today announced that CEO Damian Smith and CFO Bill Lonergan will present to the investment community at the Kaufman Brothers Communications, Media and Technology Conference. The presentation will be held on September 8, 2004, 2:15 pm ET at The W Hotel New York. An audio webcast of the presentation will be made available from LookSmart’s Investor Relations website at http://www.shareholder.com/looksmart.

There are lot of questions about search engines . Do you want more search engine traffic? Are you having trouble getting it? You’re not alone. You could have the most highly optimized web site possible and still fail to achieve a top ten, or for that matter, even a top 20 ranking in an engine like Google. John Calder answer about it

Are you struggling with how to combine search engine optimization and pay-per-click advertising? In this article, you’ll find tested guidelines and business scenarios to help you plan a successful, integrated campaign that is aligned with your business goals and market situation. Read More

PROVO, UT - August 30, 2004 - Enhance Interactive (http://www.enhance.com), a leading provider of pay-for-performance search engine marketing services, and a subsidiary of Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX) today announced the availability of its new paid listings management application program interface (API), providing its clients and business partners with much easier access to account creation and paid listings management capabilities. Read the rest of this entry »

Oneupweb Study of FORTUNE 100 Concludes: Global Leaders Risk Losing Market Share — Less Than 10% Using SEO Well

Suttons Bay, MI Oneupweb, a world-class search engine optimization and marketing firm, today released a new white paper outlining its study of FORTUNE 100 Web sites and revealed that less than 10 percent use search engine optimization (SEO) effectively. And, more than 40 percent aren’t using SEO at all. The 2004 study also compares results to another Oneupweb study performed in 2002 and while numbers have improved, these global leaders are allowing other companies to usurp them online. The study titled, “Global Leaders Risk Losing Market Share,” is available at Oneupweb.com under “Articles.” Read the rest of this entry »

Google is offering now 6 accounts to refer to other your friend and relatives or business associates .It indicates that now google want to offer more Gmail to public and it is coming out of beta phase .Some forums are also offering free Gmail account .

What is a Search Engine? All search engines start with a “search box”, which issometimes the main focus of the site, e.g. google.com, dmoz.org, altavista.com; sometimes the “search box” is just one feature of a portal site, e.g. yahoo.com, msn.com, netscape.com. Just type in your search phrase and click the “search” …

The No. 1 Internet search engine Google on Monday was unable to provide search results to a number of Web surfers, probably because of a variant of the MyDoom virus. The users has also experience the same problem in case of Yahoo and Lycos. Google confirms that their users experience slowness in search results because of Doom virus attack which has send unlimited queries to Google.

According to several media accounts, the problem began about 11:30 a.m. ET, and by 3 p.m. the site seemed to be running smoothly again.

Improve your search by using more words: As a general rule, the more words you use, the more accurate your search results will , you will get a smaller set of search results that will be more relevant to you. Read the rest of this entry »

A Colorado man is traveling to Oakes, N.D., in search of information on a woman he only knows through photographs.

The journey is the beginning of a multi-year project Roddy MacInnes hopes will culminate in a photography exhibit and possibly a book.

MacInnes, 51, of Boulder, was first introduced to Nina Weiste in what he calls a “junk shop” in Colorado. That’s where he discovered photo albums dating back to 1917 that belonged to the then-young woman.

MacInnes, who teaches photography at the University of Denver, had to do some detective work in finding out where Weiste came from. One of her photos referenced the Jim River, so he typed that name and her own name into an Internet search engine, and he found Oakes.

That’s what led him to the Dakotas. MacInnes says he’s just kicking off his project. He came through Aberdeen Thursday and planned to meet with members of the Dickey County Historical Society on Friday.

Looking to use that new Gmail account for something really innovative? How about combining it with a brand new filesystem for Linux? Then GmailFS might be the answer: GmailFS provides a mountable Linux filesystem which uses your Gmail account as its storage medium. … GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open, close, stat, symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename

Ever imagined a search engine somewhat similar to Google to retrieve results based on an image or a sketch? Just draw a picture of a wing nut, and the engine will search a database and retrieve all the images matching your drawing. Sounds unreal?

Five years from now, when you’re on “Jeopardy,” the category is “Public Companies,” and the answer is “Biggest IPO of 2004,” you’ll be able to hit the buzzer with supreme confidence: “What is Genworth Financial?”

Approximately 38 million Americans use search engines each day, making search second only to e-mail as the most popular online activity.

The report, “Data Memo On Search Engines,” is the result of a nationwide telephone survey of almost 1,399 Internet users conducted between May 14 and June 17 by the Pew Internet and American Life Project and comScore Networks.

A conference early this month in San Jose, Calif., provided clear evidence the technology sector is gaining strength, said John Lustina, whose Intrapromote search engine optimization company is based in Valparaiso.

In the final article in a series on building a website, Michael Herman explains how Google ranks webpages and what you can do to improve your ranking.