Jimmy Wales announced a few days ago, the closure of Wikia Search due to the ongoing economic recession. Wikia Search was designed with the primary purpose to allow users determine the rankings of sites and pages for all other users.
Wales summed up the decision like this,
Tim Armstrong, (ex Google executive) replaces AOL CEO Randy Falco, who was on the job since November 2006. Armstrong was associated with Google since the year 2000 and it is not the first time when AOL has recruited a Google executive for its chief positions. According to a Press Release by Rachel Metz, AP Technology Writer:
You read it right. Inquisitor is now on iPhone. The announcement is made by the Official Yahoo! Blog and users can get this plugin on their iPhones right now!
“Inquisitor Mobile Search auto-completes your search and gives suggestions as you type to refine your search. When you type in your query, websites and suggestions appear immediately below the search box. Inquisitor also speeds up your search by quickly loading site summaries and allowing you to navigate between results and the browser with just one click.†– Ariel Seidman and David Watanabe,
Yahoo! Search
According to Hitwise Data (PDF FILE),
That means that Internet users are typing long words in different search engines as a part of their search queries. Have a look at this table that gives us a deeper insight on all the observations concerned with search queries:
Mobile phones have come a long way since the initial days. Search engines are available at your fingertips, stock market revolves around your mobile set and cricket scores are just a click away! What else can you ask for!
Chinese search giant Baidu has received lots of suspicions for its so-called “Baidu Bidding Ranking programâ€. China Central Television and main competitor Google were the main critics of the program run by Baidu.
News has spread that some competitors have even filed a lawsuit in the local court to get a justified answer.
Amazon is taking opportunity of Thanksgiving day by releasing the bad news of shutting one of its web service i.e. Alexa Web Search. This service provides programmatic access to Alexa’s web search engine. Introduced in 2006, the service is already closed to new customers but the existing users can utilize it till January 26, 2009.
The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization has launched its fifth annual State-of-the-SEM Market Survey.
All that happened in the world of search engines in the first week of August. Once again, the blogs are all in chronological order. Enjoy!
Yahoo! Finally Gives a New Face to Yahoo! Site Explorer!:
According to the Yahoo! Search Blog, Yahoo! has finally given its Site Explorer the long overdue facelift with an entirely new interface, giving the Site Explorer an all new look and feel. You can check out the new Yahoo! Site Explorer.
One of India's national newspaper, Hindu, recently reported that India's highest court of justice, the Supreme Court, notified the Centre, Google India, Yahoo India and Microsoft Corporation, trying to impose a ban on these online search engines, which have been unlawfully promoting sex selection techniques.
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