How did the top four search engines perform in the first 4 weeks of the year? Data from Hitwise shows that Google accounted for 65.98% of all US searches. Yahoo followed with 20.94%, MSN Live Search at 6.9%, and Ask trailing at 4.21% which reflects an increase of 19% YOY.
“Search engines remain the primary way internet users navigate to key industry categories” according to Hitwise. Interesting growth trend is that travel, news and media, entertainment, business and finance, and sports all underwent significant increases in the share of traffic coming from search engines, from More»

Labels: Ask.com, Microsoft, search engine, Yahoo

Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia.com will be the first headline Keynote Speaker at the upcoming WebGuild Web 2.0 Conference & Expo on Tuesday, January 29, 2008. Wikia is a community destination supporting the creation and development of wiki communities on any topic people are passionate about. They currently support over 4,700 communities in more than 70 languages. Part of the free culture movement, Wikia content is released under a free content license and operates on the Open Source MediaWiki software. Explore their existing communities or More»

Labels: Search, search engine, social networks, Social Search

There is a useful video from Google providing tips on how to prevent the indexing of web pages you don’t want Google to crawl so it doesn’t show up on the web.

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Wiki-hosting company, Wikia, is set to release Wikia Search, a community driven search engine, on Monday. Wikipedia co-founder, Jimmy Wales, who is behind this says the goal is to let volunteers improve search technology collectively, the way Wikipedia lets anyone add or change entries, regardless of expertise.
Wikia Search’s tag line is “building a new open global search engine” and is focused on enabling transparency in how the search systems and algorithms work, crowdsourcing so everyone is able to contribute, improving the relevancy and accuracy of search results, and protecting users’ privacy More»

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Ask.com is looking out for its users’ privacy. The search engine currently completely disassociates search history from a user’s IP address and User ID information after 18 months. Well now, Ask.com has enabled a privacy feature called “AskEraser” that allows its users to exercise greater control over their search query history. Users can turn on AskEraser at the top right hand corner of the Ask.com site from either the homepage or a SERP page to prevent their search activity data, which includes search terms, clicks, IP address and any user/session IDs assigned to users, from being saved and to More»

Labels: Privacy, Search, search engine

[Update – October 5, 2007] Five days after posting this article (in French), 118 pages of the site are indexed on Google, which wins across the board for exhaustiveness, relevance and speed. Without contest!
Yahoo! and Microsoft are still at the same point…and the others are worse: it’s unknown on Ask, and Exalead shows a thumbnail of a parking service More»

Labels: GYM, index, internet, Microsoft, relevance, search engine, Yahoo