August, 2007 News:

Google introduces comments to Google News

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Google will start allowing users to comment on the stories displayed on Google News, with these comments to be displayed next to the articles in question.
The comments system will differ from the average blog, as comments will be restricted to people that are connected to the story, so only the writer of the article or […]

Google deletes its own blog after mistaking it for spam

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Last week, Google managed to delete one of its own blogs, after the search engine mistakenly though that it was a spam blog.
The site in question was Google’s Custom Search Blog, which  offers advice for users of the company’s Custom Search Engine software, which can be used to build customized website that search specific sites […]

Real time indexing from Google

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Matt Cutts, on his Gadgets, Google and SEO blog, has been writing about how quickly the search engine is now updating its results.
Back in 2000, Cutts says, Google updated its index every few months, changing this to monthly halfway through that year. After an update in 2003, the search engine started to update its results […]

Spock - a people search engine

Thursday, August 9th, 2007

Spock, a search engine which can be used to search the internet for details on individuals, has launched in a public beta.
This new search engine aims to provide a more accurate method of searching for people than using Google or Yahoo, returning more specific information by filtering out the irrelevant results. Around 30% of internet searches […]

Wikipedia founder close to launching open source search engine

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Wikia, the commercial site headed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has acquired Grub, a distributed crawling service, which will be used for the forthcoming open source, human assisted search engine, which is expected to launch by the end of the year.
Grub technology will be used to build an index for the Search Wikia project – […]