Yahoo! Video Search now improved!
Yahoo might be waiting for their search deal with Microsoft begin but they continue to work on enhancing their search services.
The company has now further enhanced their video search engine.
They have now made it easy for web users to search for albums and songs by your favorite music [...]
Microsoft Yahoo partnership could be expanded to international markets!
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has stated that if things went well they can extend their partnership with Yahoo to international markets.
Microsoft and Yahoo recently announced a deal over their search engine services.
Yahoo Search would soon use Microsoft Bing engine for their searches in the [...]
Google Commerce Search announced
Google has announced a new search product for online retailers.
They call it Google Commerce Search.
Online retailers can install it on their website to provide a faster way to go through their items.
It is hosted on the Google servers so it works pretty fast. Store operators retain the ability [...]
Baidu.com to send music related queries to Qtrax
Good news for the music labels in the Chinese market.
Baidu.com is the most popular search engine in China and they are collaborating with digital media store Qtrax.
Baidu.com said that music related queries on their search engines would be directed to relevant content available on Qtrax.
Qtrax [...]
Google Search by Voice now works with Mandarin Chinese!
Google has announced that they have updated their Google Voice Search service to work with Mandarin Chinese language.
The company added in a blog post that the service is also now available on Nokia S60 smartphones.
Support for Nokia S60 platform would enable millions of mobile [...]
Microsoft Bing jingle performed by Pennsylvania school kids
Google updates its robots.txt to celebrate Halloween
Google has updated its robots.txt file on Google.com to celebrate Halloween.
This is the interesting part in the file:
User-agent: Kids
Disallow: /tricks
Allow: /treats
Checkout: Google.com robots.txt file
It is unlikely to matter much to the search engine bots that try to index Google.com but it still highlights the funny side [...]
Google now use RSS/Atom feeds for discovering new sites
Google has some good news for web publishers.
Google Webmaster Central team has revealed that they are now using RSS and Atom feeds to discover new content on the web.
This means that if your brand new site has a RSS feed associated with it, there [...]
Google Fading Homepage: This space intentionally left blank
Google has been testing a new version of their homepage which fades all the text content on the homepage after the user loads it.
The aim is to have the entire focus on the search box. User can move the mouse to reveal the buttons or just press [...]
DeepDyve is great news for medical professionals
TechCrunch has posted about DeepDyve which aims to become the Apple iTunes for scientific papers.
The service indexes millions of such documents and provide access to them for a low cost.
This can come very handy for medical professionals around the world for whom subscribing to medical journals [...]
