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Yahoo lets you build your own search service
BOSS is a new, open platform that offers programmatic access to the entire Yahoo! Search index via an API. BOSS allows developers to take advantage of Yahoo!’s production search infrastructure and technology, combine that with their own unique assets, and create their own search experiences.” 
Google blog: Introduction to [...] Read more »

Google learns to crawl Flash
Google has been developing a new algorithm for indexing textual content in Flash files of all kinds, from Flash menus, buttons and banners, to self-contained Flash websites. [...]
Now that we’ve launched our Flash indexing algorithm, web designers can expect improved visibility of their published Flash content, and you can expect [...] Read more »

Articles of the week
            Google’s Matt Cutts interviewed by Eric Enge
“Matt wrote SafeSearch, which is Google’s family filter. [...] Matt currently heads up the Webspam team for Google. Matt talks about webmaster-related issues. [...]
Google continues its policy on paid links in general, so just yesterday we put out a new call for any paid [...] Read more »

Search engine news of the weekDon’t end your URLs with .exe
“Sometimes at a conference people will ask me ‘Does it matter what extension I use for my pages? Does Google prefer .php over .asp, or .html over .htm?’ And my answer is ‘We’re happy to crawl all of these file extensions. It doesn’t matter what [...] Read more »

Articles of the week

We’re all guinea pigs in Google’s search experiment
Google found that when the results increased to 30 per page, people searched 20 percent less overall, Mayer said. After much analysis of server logs, the company found it was because it took about twice as long to display the longer results list for the [...] Read more »

Search engine news of the week

Yahoo updates its ranking algorithm

We’ll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days, but expect the update will be completed soon. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index.

Advertisers now [...] Read more »

Search engine news of the week

April search market share: Yahoo! up… a little

“Yahoo! query volumes increased roughly 1.3% to push market share up to 14.8%. Maybe that Microhoo press got a lot of people yodeling after all.
Yahoo! gains did not come at the expense of Google. Google moved up a little over a point to [...] Read more »

Search engine news of the week

Google receives nearly 68 percent of U.S. searches in April 2008
“Google accounted for 67.90 percent of all U.S. searches in the four weeks ending April 26, 2008. Yahoo! Search, MSN Search and Ask.com each received 20.28, 6.26 and 4.17 percent respectively. [...]
Search engines continue to be the primary way Internet users [...] Read more »

Yahoo releases glue result pages
Yahoo India released the new “glue” result pages. These pages combine classic search results on the left hand column with more visual information in the middle and right section of the page.
For example, take a look at the search result for football. This might be a test that Yahoo will extend [...] Read more »