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Ask.com Returns To Q&A Format
5th August 2010
Ask.com will soon stop working as a regular search engine as the directors have decided to take the site back to its original Q&A format. More »
Vatican Google Bombed
23rd July 2010
It has been reported that over the last weekend, the Vatican had been Google Bombed. More »
Over-Inflated Twitter Search Volumes
21st July 2010
For some time now, it has been believed that the number of search queries that Twitter receives is growing in leaps and bounds. This might not be completely true. More »
Social Media Dominates Asian Internet Use
8th July 2010
Nielsen has recently released the findings of their study about the use of social networks in the Asia Pacific region. As expected, the use of social media is growing in popularity in that region. More »
3-Word Queries Send Most Traffic
30th June 2010
Online ad network, Chitika, conducted a study to find out the ideal number of words in a search query to drive the most traffic. More »
BP Invests In Google AdWords To Protect Brand Reputation
10th June 2010
Following the recent oil spill that occurred in the Gulf Of Mexico, BP, the company responsible for the disaster, has been working hard not only to clear up the mess created, but also to save face. More »
AOL Shopping For New Search Partner
9th June 2010
Rumours have been doing the rounds regarding a possible deal between AOL and Microsoft. AOL’s Chief Executive, Tim Armstrong, has said that the company is in talks for a new search deal. Their current deal with Google is due to end shortly. More »
Canadian White Pages Dying Due To Search
4th June 2010
The growth of the Internet in general, and online and mobile search, in particular, has just claimed another victim – the Canadian White Pages directory service. More »
Bing Socialises Shopping Search
10th May 2010
After having made it possible for users to share their opinions on search results relating to news and entertainment, Bing is now encouraging users to make the online shopping process more social. More »
Yahoo! Reports Changes In Search Behaviour
7th May 2010
A white paper released by scientists from Yahoo! Labs sheds light on the changes in search user behaviour. More »
Twitter Claims More Searches Than Bing, Yahoo!
16th April 2010
Evan Williams, the co-founder of Twitter, said at the Chirp conference recently that Twitter users carry out about 600 million searches per day. Twitter’s director of search Doug Cook added that the number of queries reaches the 750 million mark on certain days and he expects it to cross 1 billion fairly soon. More »
Google Enables Twitter Archive Search
15th April 2010
Ever since the introduction of real-time search last December, Google has added content from sites like MySpace, Facebook and Buzz. The data is now available in 40 different languages. Google has also added a links feature to help people find the most relevant information with updates from Twitter. More »
Going Back To Nofollow
1st April 2010
For the past few years, the Search Daily News has refrained from slapping the rel=”nofollow” attribute on to links associated with comments on the site. This is now changing. More »
Yahoo! Target Of Cyber Attacks In China
31st March 2010
The issues relating to cyber-attacks in China that led to Google’s withdrawal from the country are not yet over. The BBC is now reporting that Yahoo! email accounts were also targeted. More »
Microsoft Bing Censors Gay Searches In Middle East
12th March 2010
The OpenNet Initiative has found that Microsoft Bing censors searches related to gay and lesbian topics in a number of Middle Eastern countries. More »
Google Testing TV Search
11th March 2010
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Google is testing a new TV search service in conjunction with Dish Network. More »
Introducing The Yahoo! And Microsoft Search Alliance
22nd February 2010
Yahoo! and Microsoft, who have been in talks regarding a search alliance for some time now, have recently received regulatory clearance for the same. More »
How Social Is Google Social Search?
1st February 2010
Google has now released Social Search in beta for all users. While this could mark the start of an exciting new era in organic search engine optimisation, there is one severe limitation to this feature. More »
Social Networks More Popular Than Search In Australia
28th January 2010
Data released by Hitwise has shown that over the last few weeks, social networking sites have become more popular than search engines in Australia. More »
Microsoft Plans To Make Hay While Google Battles China
20th January 2010
Following Google’s recent declaration that the search engine might pull out of China if it is not allowed to show uncensored search results, the spotlight has also fallen on rival, Microsoft, who has also started operations in China. More »
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