Author: Joe Friedlein

Is there anything that can stop Google? New statistics show that it has increased its market share. Is it possible for a new search engine to survive?

New research confirms benefits of appearing at top of both organic and sponsored search results.

Yahoo! introduces BOSS – build your own search service

Surprise, surprise… The Google / Yahoo! deal is under scrutiny from the Department of Justice

Improvements on the horizon for indexing of flash content. Previously unindexed flash content set for inclusion in search engine results pages.

Microsoft follows other avenues after failed Yahoo! deal and snaps up Powerset, the semantic search engine.

Microsoft grumble about the Yahoo! / Google deal but acknowledge that they were slow off the blocks in the great search race.

Yahoo! and Google announce deal that must spell the end of any prospect of a deal with Microsoft. Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said he expected the deal to be worth around $800m per year for the company.

Google tells us not to worry about scraper sites publishing duplicate versions of our content, but is this really a true reflection of Google’s ability to identify the original content source?

Wikia search unveils interesting new features but will it be enough to trouble the likes of Google?

Google tramples on Yahoo and MSN yet again in latest comScore findings.

According to the IAB’s full year report, 2007 was another record year for online ad spending, the fourth in a row.