Yahoo has recently revealed that since redesigning it’s homepage, pageviews are up 9 percent, and time spent on the homepage is up 20 percent in the last 3 months.The whole focus of the redesign is to increase what they call PageYield – Yahoo’s measurement of how engaged the user is with the webpage (as opposed [...]

Google Australia recently launched Gday, a new search engine (currently in BETA testing mode) which can apparently give you tomorrow’s search results today. Here’s an excerpt from their official launch:
Using MATE’s™ machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques developed in Google’s Sydney offices, we can construct elements of the future.
Google spiders crawl publicly available web information [...]

Google released Google Zeitgeist 2008 which is basically a list compiling the most common as well as the fastest rising search terms on Google.
Fastest rising:

iplayer
facebook
iphone
youtube
yahoo mail
large hadron collider
obama
friv
cam4
jogos

Most popular: 

facebook
bbc
youtube
ebay
games
news
hotmail
bebo
yahoo
jobs

BBC’s iplayer cetainly seems to have taken off and rightly so: being able to watch your favourite tv shows upto 14 days after being aired is incredibly helpful.
You can [...]

Some of you might have noticed or seen (if you were chosen as part of the bucket test) that Google is testing SearchWiki – a web 2.0 approach to search which allows users to rate search results, add comments to each result as well as view other user comments. Based on your rating of results, [...]

According to a study done by iProspect, 49% of us change our search terms and/or search engine after not finding our desired result on the first page (for those interested, this compares with 40% in 2007, 42% in 2005 and just 28% in 2004). Only 8% of us actually bother going past the third page.
I’ve [...]

This has got to be a first- Noticed yahoo running a flash ad on its home page which went something like this: ‘LOST searching Google for Holiday recipes.. Find your perfect recipe through Yahoo with minimum fuss…’.
What’s interesting is not only the fact that Yahoo is marketing its search technology superior to Google’s, these ads [...]