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* Facebook Dumps Microsoft for Display Ads; Expands Search Deal
... display ads on Facebook, while it has expanded its search advertising partnership with the online social network... The expansion of the search partnership will see Facebook provide "full access to great ... make faster, smarter decisions." Bing will now also power search on all of Facebook's properties worldwide, instead of just ... Facebook Dumps Microsoft for Display Ads; Expands Search Deal Mark Hefflinger.

* Paid search predictions for 2010
... number of tactics, targeting options and channels available for search marketers will need to grow to make sure search that campaigns can deliver ever-increasing return on investment ... At the moment, search engines are handling over a billion queries each month, with a massive share of searches being made through Google ...

* Microsoft Extends Bing Search Deal With Facebook
The Bing Search Blog announced Microsoft has extended their search deal with Facebook ... In addition to extending the search deal, as expected , Facebook will drop Microsoft on the ... The extended search deal includes a more robust Bing search experience on Facebook ... Also, Bing will power Facebook search outside of the U.S., to all Facebook users ...

* Facebook’s Major Redesign Emphasizes Search and So Much More
It places a new emphasis on search and lets you sort through much more information without ... pics show a much larger and more prominently placed search bar, which is just another example of how Facebook means business with search ... Facebook’s Major Redesign Emphasizes Search and So Much More Samuel Axon.

* We Still Get Things Done Through Search
... it comes to getting things done, we rely on search... study I came across later was conducted by GroupM Search and explores the interplay of social and search... prone to being influenced by that discovery in our search behavior... marketing communications activities need to be integrated -- media, paid search, organic search, interactions, PR, promotions, etc.

* Google now offers search results from "within your social circle"
Dave Winer notes that Google has quietly rolled out what may end up being a significant leap forward in search: query results that yield content from people within your online social network... Google now offers search results from "within your social circle" Xeni Jardin.

* Stanford Offers Up Millions of Books in Support of Google Book Search
... for Google by expanding an earlier agreement with the search giant and agreeing to digitize the University’s library... move comes amidst legal controversy over the Google Book Search engine. As you may know, Google Book Search is currently embroiled in a mess of legal issues ... Up Millions of Books in Support of Google Book Search Brenna Ehrlich.

* Google's two-way search is good for the web
Google's two-way search is good for the web... has unveiled one of the most signficant, far-reaching and basically good features in its core search product... I called this two-way search in July 2009... So, when I search for "Michael Clayton" it includes results from my social circle.

* Armstrong Hints AOL Will Renew Search Deal With Google: “Distribution Is Almost As Important To Us As Money”
Needless to say, snatching the search partnership away would be a coup for Microsoft’s Bing search engine ... Bing wants the search deal, which would help it increase its total volume of searches by a couple percentage points since AOL on its own has the fifth largest search share in the U.S ...

* Forget Google, social search is all about mobile
... up at night -- isn't Bing or Ask or traditional search... ran across a data point in Aardvark's new social search report that I find way more interesting than Google ... The real seismic shift in social search will come from its commingling with mobile applications... speech recognition , and the utility of mobile-based social search could get really interesting.

* Searching For Search's Elementary Particle
On the search front, this means the industry's desperate scramble -- and heretofore ... So our early, clumsy attempts at melding search and social took a mechanistic view: "People have friends... Google's Social Search, fresh out of the Labs and into Beta, does ... Facebook photos to show up on my buddies' Google searches, I have to explicitly connect the account to my ...

* Will Optimization For Mobile Apps Soon Outweigh Search Engine Optimization?
... posses the simple question “could apps be the new search... in app stores or other centralized repositories — not in search engines — and as such, those behind the mobile apps ... to suffice in making your app known to consumers searching for those specific keywords... Will Optimization For Mobile Apps Soon Outweigh Search Engine Optimization.

* China search market review: ‘Slow’ Google hampers growth in mobile dominated market
... of Google Caffeine, web users’ appetite for real-time search is growing... rise of social media, location technology and real-time search look set to dictate the digital marketing landscape in ... How can you boost your sites visibility on search engines without resorting to unethical ‘black hat’ techniques... China search market review: ‘Slow’ Google hampers growth in mobile ...

* Aardvark Publishes A Research Paper Offering Unprecedented Insights Into Social Search
... after that paper was published, the team behind social search engine Aardvark has drafted its own research paper that looks at the social side of search ... The paper likens Aardvark to a ‘Village’ search model, where answers come from the people in your social network; Google is part of ‘Library’ search, where the answers lie in already-written texts ...

* The Human Algorithm: How Google Ranks Tweets in Real-Time Search
... 15 million, to integrate tweets into keyword related Google searches... developed to help find relevant Web pages through traditional search and was Google’s primary differentiation in a world of commodity search platforms ... Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, is also including tweets in its real-time search feed and could, for instance, integrate Klout’s influence engine ...

* The Google Decade: Search In Review, 2000 To 2009
... were notable as the first full decade of consumer search... you could try to sum up what happened in search, as a consumer product... He’s a widely cited authority on search engines and search marketing issues who has covered the space since 1996 ... Danny also oversees Search Engine Land’s SMX: Search Marketing Expo conference series , maintains a personal blog called ...

* Hands on: Qrobe.it mixes Google and Bing in single interface
Boban believes Google came very close to perfecting the search experience many years ago, but since then the Web has moved on and the search giant has not changed its service much ... For search queries like MSFT, Qrobe's cleaner interface stood out: it gave all the information we wanted in the search results, but it didn't include all the extra sidebars ...

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* 10 Sites and Services That Will Matter in 2010
... Bing has proved itself by reworking many aspects of search, offering image search and viewing, adding the ability to search Twitter tweets, and even integrating search results from semantic search engine Wolfram Alpha ... far ahead with better than 70 percent of all searches , Bing's share continues to rise: Today, Bing gets about 10 percent of Web searches ...

* Useful List of Google Tools
If you want to test your knowledge of Google search take a look at the list of Custom Search Tools in the article ... Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his ... log useful to those who want to go "beyond search... His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.

* Predictions 2010
Traditional search results will deteriorate to the point that folks begin to question search's validity as a service ... are in the midst of a significant transition in search - as I've recently written, we are asking far more complicated questions of search , ones that search is simply not set up to answer ...

* Googled: Google prepping social search tool
... is prepping a new tool that will unleash “Social Search. Real-time search is only the first step, here’s what I’ve discovered ... results from FRIEND_NAME Description: For results on the search result page, This link will appear after the DisplayUrl... English: Learn more Description: For results on the search result page, this link will appear after the heading of the Social Search section ...

* UnGoogled: A Week of Discovering Alternatives For Google’s Services
After tons of digging through a gazillion search engines, directories and forums; I finally decided to settle ... ditch my time-tested and oh-so-reliable Google Search... a tear as I went looking for a fresh search experience... To round up my search for alternatives, I wanted something with which to replace Google Image Search ...

* 10 Things Microsoft Did Right over the Past Decade
... it commanded the software market, Google was cornering the search space without any worry of competition. Microsoft's Live Search was largely inconsequential... Microsoft's latest search tool is outstanding. Its results match Google's search results. And thanks to some extras, like a visual search feature, it's a fine alternative to anything Google is ...

* Search 345,000,000 PowerPoint presentations
Alt Search Engines covers the cutting-edge of alternative and niche search engines, and is edited by Charles Knight, a respected industry analyst... Search 345,000,000 PowerPoint presentations Steffen Schilke.

* Search 200,000+ logos with SeekLogo
Alt Search Engines covers the cutting-edge of alternative and niche search engines, and is edited by Charles Knight, a respected industry analyst... Search 200,000+ logos with SeekLogo Steffen Schilke.

* AdweekMedia Forecast 2010
... the $11.4 billion in spending expected to go to search, still the medium's dominant sector. Yet the steady search space will also see change in 2010 as Microsoft ... It's only going to strengthen [search engines'] appeal." Many in the digital media space are ... be improved dramatically by becoming a lot more like search through advanced targeting technology and data collection.

* Google’s To-Do List for 2010 – GigaOM
It’s no wonder display-ad revenue has been falling while search ads have been rising. Making display ads as targeted and unobtrusive as search ads may be an uphill battle, but that was a ... Eric Schmidt what second act Google has planned to supplement search and he’s likely to mention Google Apps.

* Google's One-Minute Guide to Search-Based Keywords
... put together a one-minute guide to using its Search-based Keyword tool... It lets paid search advertisers see what keywords they may be missing out on based on searches on their site ... Google each day to find products and services by searching on various keywords," says Dan Friedman of Google's Inside ...

* A search engine for just ads.
You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site. Alt Search Engines covers the cutting-edge of alternative and niche search engines, and is edited by Charles Knight, a respected industry analyst... A search engine for just ads. Steffen Schilke.

* My 10 Favorite Search Engines for 2009 – Part II « AltSearchEngines
... who the most influential Twitterers are, and so Klout searches that for you... My dream news search engine would deliver the front page of every major ... to the website if I want to perform a search... RSS Email Updates « 2009 – capping a decade of web search innovation My 10 Favorite Search Engines for 2009 – Part II ...

* My 10 Favorite Search Engines for 2009 – Part I « AltSearchEngines
Why I like it: Any wine search engine can filter by region, rating, or price, but ... With Aromicon, you can search by flavors or aromas such as fruity, floral or ... Why I like it: A delightful search engine for parents of small children... Board Subscribe to RSS Email Updates « My 10 Favorite Search Engines for 2009 – Part I.

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* Bing’s Very First List Of Most Popular Searches
In fairness, Bing did officially release their Most Popular Searches for all of 2009, including data from the first half of the year as Live Search ... Elisabeth Osmeloski As managing editor of Search Engine Land, Elisabeth oversees the site’s logistics and performance, as well as posting updates from the travel search industry, reporting user search trends and online shopping news ...

* AOL’s List Of Lists – Top Searches 2009
... in with a heavy hitting list of 2009’s top searches in the categories below... Elisabeth Osmeloski As managing editor of Search Engine Land, Elisabeth oversees the site’s logistics and performance, as well as posting updates from the travel search industry, reporting user search trends and online shopping news ... runs her own blog covering the travel vertical and search marketing for luxury and lifestyle brands at AdventuresinSearch.com.

* Side By Side: A Look At The Top Search Trends From Yahoo, Bing, And Google
... Bing, Yahoo, and Google have all released their top search trends for 2009... note that the methods employed are neither consistent between search engines, nor are they scientific to begin with... removal of porn and other NSFW related queries, the search engines generally ignore items that are always popular in ...

* NHL, Twitter, Michael Jackson among top Canadian web searches in 2009
Google and Yahoo Canada say the top Canadian web searches of the year included Twitter, the NHL, Blackberry and ... The world's most-popular search engine, Google, reports the five most popular Canadian searches were for Facebook, YouTube, lyrics, weather and Hotmail ... Microsoft's new Bing search engine did not release Canadian results but said the most popular searches of 2009 were Michael Jackson, Twitter, swine flu, the ...

* Search for free music, videos, games, radio with Dizzler
The Dizzler free downloadable application allows users to search online and play free music, videos, games, and radio ... When you make a search, Dizzler only returns publicly available content from the Internet... using the same standards and practices as the major search engines (Google, Yahoo... Digital Millennium Copyright Act, provides a safe harbor for search engines that display infringing material unless and until receiving ...

* Microsoft plays down anti-Google search plans
Microsoft’s top search technology executive on Wednesday all but dismissed the likelihood ... leave Google as a way to boost Microsoft’s own search engine, Bing... make available while still being included in the Google search index, and was the latest indication of efforts to appease publishers who have complained that the search company is damaging their online efforts ...

* Publishers Can Now Opt Out of Google News Search Indexing
Publishers Can Now Opt Out of Google News Search Indexing... keep their content out of Google News and still remain in Google Search... Want to block images from Google News, but not from Web Search... Want to include snippets in Google News, but not in Web Search.

* Bing's Cool New Search Tools: A Visual Tour
Microsoft continues to tweak its fledgling Bing search engine, which debuted in June... many involving Bing Maps, designed to provide a better search experience and hopefully lure people away from Google , which dominates the search market ... Let's say you search for ‘metropolitan museum of art in New York City ... And that means a better search experience for the rest of us.

* Top Searches of 2009: The Most Popular Questions
... the end of 2009 creeps up upon us, the search engines are starting to release some interesting data... all recently revealed Michael Jackson to be the top search term of 2009. Other hot search commodities for the year included "Facebook," "Twitter," and -- thank ... Ask has just published its top search questions of 2009, taking into account all the actual ...

* Top 10 Search Engine Lists: What They Say About Us
... what's so fascinating about Top 10 lists from major search engines... The major search sites--Google, Yahoo, Bing, and AOL--have just released their Top Search lists for 2009 ... catapulted him to the top of Yahoo's Celebrity Farewell Search list... We love fantasy : AOL's top-searched movies for 2009 included these first five: Twilight ; Star ...

* Google Zeitgeist reveals top UK search terms in 2009
Facebook has been revealed as the most searched for term in the UK this year in Google ... mixed feelings as they headed online this year to search for their favourite online tools, to learn about celebrities ... People searched about new sensations like Lady Gaga and Susan Boyle ... The research also revealed that the most searched for topic was Stephen Gately.

* This Is It: The Most Popular Searches Of 2009
Across the board, consumer searches were financially fueled, ranging from credit score and coupon searches to foreclosure information, unemployment benefits to “Cash for Clunkers ... Elisabeth Osmeloski As managing editor of Search Engine Land, Elisabeth oversees the site’s logistics and performance, as well as posting updates from the travel search industry, reporting user search trends and online shopping news ...

* Freelemonade helps you search by suggesting keywords
... your interests and they are automatically fed to the search engine so the search returns focus on pages associated with your specific interest ... been diagnosed you may be drawn to a major search engine but won’t know what to search for... Unlike other search enhancements, Freelemonade does not rely on search engine data or analysis ...

* Yahoo: Michael Jackson leads top ten searches of 2009
The second most searched term was Twilight, the vampire book and movie series, followed by WWE, which in Yahoo searches leads to World Wrestling Entertainment, in third ... Other categories Yahoo provided include the top Obama searches, with the president's inauguration as the leading search, as well as the top ten celebrity farewell searches, top science-related searches, music, sports and more ...

* Google’s top list of Australian searches for 2009 has been revealed, showing the ideas and spirit of...
... hot and what’s not in the world of online searching... Simon and Garfunkle band breakups, are still being actively searched for... Next up on Google’s gargantuan list of Aussie surfer searching comes up everything “foodie”, with the lemon detox diet ... Google’s top list of Australian searches for 2009 has been revealed, showing the ideas and ...

* Hulu Becomes One Powerful Search Tool with Additions of Advanced Search Options
Advanced search offers an easy-to-use interface that allows you ... video you’re looking for — look for it on any search results page, or follow the link near the bottom ... If you search for videos on Hulu often, we offer search operators that correspond with each of the fields in our Advanced Search menu, so you can type in a complete search query directly from the search bar ...

News and Views on Search and Searching

* Google Introduces Page Preview Thumbnails in the Search Results
... the most useful tools to be introduced for Google Search has been Search Options. It allows users to customize the search to include only a certain type of results or ... Users can now see larger text snippets for the search results or even a thumbnail preview of the page ... adds a small preview of the page in the search results next to the regular entries.

* Firefox Super Search - People Search & Web Search Toolbar 1.2
Super Search for Firefox allows users to perform web searches, people searches, reverse lookups, public records searches, due diligence and background research, using over 160 of the internet's best search engines ... The Firefox Super Search Engine Toolbar Includes The Following : Searches That Can Be Run Directly From Search ToolBar Include Web Searches ---> Google search engine ...

* Google Tests a Clutter-Free Homepage

* Surge in Search Innovation
adult Internet users typed a query into a search engine on a typical day, and search is gaining on e-mail as the most common ... to make sure the look and feel of its search engine remains distinct, even though its underlying results eventually will be generated by Bing, announced a new "Search Experience" in September ...

* Are You Ready For Google Local Social Search?
Google’s new social search experiment is kind of a big deal for a ... will open up lots of opportunity for smart local search marketers... In short, as Google improves its local search experience, it will get harder for sites to get the valuable local search traffic they have been feasting on for years ...

* Come and see 100 Search Engines in 100 Minutes!
... blog AltSearchEngines and creator of The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines list, will present 100 search engines in 100 minutes ... AltSearchEngines launched with a base of 1,000 search engines and has published almost 4,000 posts since ... Come and see the 100 most creative and innovative search engines in the world in this rapid fire presentation.

* Top 5 sites for social search
... are looking for more news and articles related to searching and search engine marketing, make use of our Search Engine Detective portal, which also includes a vertical search tool covering this topic ... This brand of search engine give you search results that appeal to real people, not just search engine spiders ...

* SPECIAL: The search – computers dig deeper for meaning
Search engine technology is in a state of flux as ... reap the benefits of the new age of semantic search thanks to the work of European researchers. Search’ is the gateway to the web, it keeps internet ... We cannot easily search inside a film or audio recording for relevant information.

* The State of Search Marketing: 2009
No longer do search-engine marketing advocates have to convince big marketers on the value of search ... group SEMPO, nine out of 10 marketers practice organic search optimization, and 70% use paid search... Just last month, Google launched a mobile-search service that will sit on the home screen of Android phones and search contents of the phones as well as the wider ...

News and Views on Search and Searching

* Microsoft announces Facebook, Twitter search partnerships
SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft will indeed be bringing real-time search results from Facebook and Twitter to its Bing search engine thanks to two partnerships, search head Qi Lu and senior vice president Yusuf Mehdi ... that Bing's team will "apply a bunch of our search techniques and relevancy to improve the results." This will ... Twitter's own search engine, which it built in with the acquisition of ...

* Google to work with Lala and iLike on music search (report)
Google is planning to launch a music search service with music sites Lala and MySpace-owned iLike ... With this new service, you’ll be able to search for a musician, then play songs streamed from partner ... as providing “everything a music fan may need when searching online for a favorite artist,” while TechCrunch says the ... will be modeled on Google’s results for public company searches.

* Come and see 100 Search Engines in 100 Minutes!
... blog AltSearchEngines and creator of The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines list, will present 100 search engines in 100 minutes ... AltSearchEngines launched with a base of 1,000 search engines and has published almost 4,000 posts since ... Come and see the 100 most creative and innovative search engines in the world in this rapid fire presentation.

* TinkoMatic: Simultaneously Search Craigslist, eBay, Oodle, and More
So if I search for something generic like “Diesel Jeans Women” I can add specific information pertaining to size to search for in the description or in the title of ... Searching multiple services at once and having the ability to refine and save searches makes a lot of sense, especially for people looking ...

* Add Cool Features to Google Search with Google Bump
It adds some cool functionality to the Google web search... Search 3 search engines simultaneously (available via the drop-down... The tool searches videos and images and displays relevant results in the ... sidebar (another way to make the most of Google search sidebar... Add Cool Features to Google Search with Google Bump Ann Smarty.

* OpenSecrets.org Launches Improved Search Engine
Last year, visitors to OpenSecrets.org used our search function more than 15 million times... when they did, we asked them to refine their search and to tell us what type of thing they ... Enter your search term and press the search button under the Action Center tab on the home ...

* A New Search Engine Specializing in Fun
... ideas for activities without wasting precious minutes is by searching online... be), www.goby.com , which works as an activity search engine to help you find things to do... It crawls the Web searching what it considers high quality information from 500 sources ... Goby searches through over 200 categories, including live music, art exhibits ...

* Self-improving results now in the Google Search Appliance
The Google Search Appliance (GSA) is getting an update today, with a bunch of new features aimed at making enterprise search easier for everyone inside a company ... our favorites, the Self-learning Scorer , learns from employees' searches to tune itself and improve over time... to the top the next time the query is searched for.

* Phonetic Search
... relating to business process, forms, workflows and the business data catalog. Phonetic Search... The first feature I’d like to highlight is phonetic search... You can now do people search in SharePoint based on the sound of someone’s name, not just the spelling. Gone are the days of typing in half a dozen spelling variations to try and find one person.

* Wowd Takes A Stab At Realtime Search With A Peer-To-Peer Approach
A new realtime search engine called Wowd is launching publicly today at the ... Wowd takes a very ambitious approach to search in that it is a peer-to-peer search engine ... Agapiev, who formerly founded the vertical search engine Vast , set out to conquer scaling issues in ... What makes Wowd a realtime search engine is that ranks sites based on how often ...

* Bing October 2009 Search Index Update
Five days ago, we alluded to a possible Bing search index update when Microsoft fixed the issues with the ... and blamed the issue on an "update to the search index." But no Webmasters really made a big stink ... real webmasters taking notice of an update on Microsoft's search engine, Bing... The last Bing search index update was some time in August 2009 , at ...

* Google Voice messages getting indexed by Google Search!
Google Voice messages getting indexed by Google Search. Boy Genius Report has reported that Google Search has managed to index some of the Google Voice message hosted on their service. You can search for the indexed messages using a regular Google Search.

* A search index for the distributed Web
... want to provide your audience with a way to search through all the stuff you've posted or commented this ... Lijit widget provides you with a centralized method to search both your primary site and all of your outposts ... Using this tool you make a customized Lijit search index containing the content you disperse through the Web ...

* YouTube launches real-time comment search on TestTube
YouTube launches real-time comment search on TestTube... This new feature enables you to search for comments being posted on YouTube in real-time. This is similar to Twitter Search which lets you checkout what is being said on ... Essentially, this is YouTube’s take on real-time search capabilities to highlight the trending topics on the web.

* Searching Can be Good For Your Health: Internet Alters Older Brains in Just One Week
... that for older people with minimal experience, performing Internet searches for even a relatively short period of time can ... Previous research by the UCLA team found that searching online resulted in a more than twofold increase in ... pm and is filed under Technology and Internet , Web Search... Searching Can be Good For Your Health: Internet Alters Older ...

* Realtime search opens new doors in knowledge sharing
When you search a traditional search engine, like Google, Yahoo or Bing, you are getting ... The search engine crawls the web by following links between websites ... Realtime Search is a new way of ordering the Web But realtime search isn’t just about searching the newest content, it’s about getting to the most ...

* Google's new global ads represent a shift. Just not in search.
... than spending its dollars to increase Google's notoriety in search, it's more likely that the search giant is trying to increase awareness in its other ... For more information about paid search marketing, read our PPC Best Practice Guide , and our separate buyer's guides for Paid Search Agencies and for PPC Bid Management Technology ...

* Yahoo Shutters Search Submit, Prepares Marketers
Both paid inclusion programs -- Search Submit Basic, which required an annual fee per URL submitted to the search index, and Search Submit Pro, the cost-per-click (CPC) program -- end ... We are delivering enhancements in search marketing, recently rolling out search retargeting, Rich Ads in Search and improved matching technology, and in Consumer Search, with enhancements like the new search results page," she says ...

* Stinky Teddy: A Cool Real-Time Search Engine With a Rather Odd Name
Before the rise of Google, meta-search engines like Dogpile or MetaCrawler were pretty popular, though no meta-search engines have been able to garner any market-share ... help the company in the long run, but this search-engine reinvents meta-search for the real-time web... Sometimes, old search results also slipped into the news search.

* A Revolutionary Yet Simple Search Engine
... all over the world to revolutionize the way internet search engines work... I took out Spezify for a test drive and searched for ‘Aeroplanes.’ I was expecting the same Google/Yahoo-like search results with my resultant page filled with blue links ... It is a wonderfully innovative search engine from which all users can gain a refreshing search experience ...