Google: Comment spamming is bad for you
Google Webmaster Central Blog has an interesting blog post about comment spam.
Google states that comment spamming is bad for you even if you end up getting more incoming links.
The basic concept is that Google spiders are smart enough to see trends of comment spam and might [...]

Google SearchWiki is connected to Google Bookmarks!
Google Operating System has reported the integration between Google SearchWiki and Google Bookmarks.
If you promote a web-page on Google search engine result pages, that page is stored in your Google Bookmarks.
Another interesting thing is that Google uses that search’s keyword as the bookmark’s tag.
This sort [...]

JavaScript code to get access to new Google!
Mashable has posted the JavaScript code that you can run on your own web browser to get access to the new Google.
Here is the code:
javascript:void(document.cookie=”PREF=ID=20b6e4c2f44943bb:U=4bf292d46faad806:TM=1249677602:LM=1257919388:S=odm0Ys-53ZueXfZG;path=/; domain=.google.com”);
You need to load Google.com on your web browser. Then run this code in the address bar.
Refreshing would get [...]

Vik Singh latest to leave Yahoo
Yahoo has lost yet another high profile individual named Vik Singh.
Vik Singh is known as the man behind Yahoo Boss service which enables anyone to create his own search engine.
Yahoo Boss has been such a success that it now power more than 1 billion searches every month. [...]

Yahoo! Search Assist updated with new features
Yahoo might be close to outsourcing their search engine to Microsoft Bing but they continue to enhance it to make it more powerful.
They have now updated their Yahoo! Search Assist service with new features.
The aim is to make it easier for the user to get the [...]

Google has a special message on image search page for Michelle Obama
Google has find itself in a fix related to some search queries on their search engine.
Sometimes a website or an image would rank so high for certain queries that it becomes an embarrassment for them.
One such example currently is the image [...]

Google breaking URL info into category blocks on SERPS!
This is the first time we noticed this new ‘feature’ on the Google search engine result pages.
If a result website has categories, Google sometimes breaks the URL info into category blocks.
Here is an example:

The link is displayed as:
news.zdnet.co.uk › News › Hardware
This is happening with news websites and [...]

Google testing a new updated user interface for search result page!

Source: TechCrunch
TechCrunch has posted this screenshot of a new user interface edition from Google Search.
It features fixed sidebar featuring the search options.
It is also much more colorful compared to current result pages from Google.
It remains to be seen if this is [...]

BBC to optimize headlines for search engine juice
BBC has revealed that they are going to use headlines which are designed to generate more search engine juice.
Instead of shorter headlines they use today, writers would be asked to submit two headlines.
A short one would appear in the stories while the longer one would [...]

Yahoo all set to index Twitter to show up to date information
Yahoo has become the latest search engine company to take help from Twitter to stay up to date.
The company has announced that they would start indexing data from Twitter and show it along with search results in the coming days.
Microsoft and [...]