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New search engine claims to index faster than Google
Cuil launched its search engine this week, claiming that it indexes more web pages than Google, Yahoo etc (120 billion pages) and can also do this faster and cheaper. Cuil (pronounced ‘cool’) was developed by Stanford professor Tom Costello and his wife Anna Patterson, a former Google search architect. The staff at the search engine also includes Russell Power and Louis Monier, who both worked at Google before joining Cuil….
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How big is Google’s web index?
Google has been talking about the size of its web index on its official blog this week, as the search engine has reached a milestone of 1 trillion web pages. This is the number of unique URLs that Google knows of – the search engine does not necessarily make all of these URLs searchable, as they do not always lead to unique web pages. Still, the figure gives you an…
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Google’s search share continues to rise
Google continues to dominate the search engine market in the US, and managed to increase its share by another percentage point in June, meaning it now has an almost 70% share of searches. While Google’s share has been increasing, that of its rivals has decreased, especially when you look at the year on year figures. According to Hitwise, while Google’s share of searches has increased from 63.9% in June 2007…
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Google/Yahoo ad deal under scrutiny
The search advertising partnership between rival search engines Google and Yahoo, announced recently, is to be investigated by the US Department of Justice due to concerns about competition. The two companies account for more than 75% of searches worldwide between them, and US officials are worried that the link up would give them too much control over the search advertising market. The Department of Justice has been looking at the…
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Yahoo signs ad deal with Google
Yahoo seems to have finally rejected a takeover by Microsoft by signing a joint search and advertising deal with Google. While the deal doesn’t stop Microsoft coming back with another bid, a $250m termination fee would be incurred if Yahoo is acquired by another company within the next two years, so the prospect of a takeover seems unlikely now. Before the details of the Google partnership were announced, Yahoo and…
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Wikia Search invites user contributions
Wikia Search, the search engine launched by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, has rolled out some new features this week. With these changes, if users aren’t satisfied with the results they get for a particular search term, they can edit the results themselves. These edited results can then be viewed by everyone who uses the search engine. The new search engine only covers a small portion of the internet at the…
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Search traffic up for retailers
Search engines are becoming more and more important for online retailers, with the percentage of traffic from shopper’s search queries rising in 2007, with more finding a site via Google or Yahoo than going direct to an e-commerce site. According to stats from web measurement firm Hitwise, the top 500 retailers received more traffic from search than in the previous year. 72% of firms received more search traffic in 2007…
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Google finally completes DoubleClick deal
Google’s $3.1bn acquisition of online advertising group DoubleClick has finally gone through, having been approved by the European Union. The deal was first announced in April 2007, but it has now taken almost a year for the merger to pass the scrutiny of the regulatory bodies. The US Federal Trade Commission approved the deal three months ago, while the European Commission said this week that the deal would not restrict…
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Google PPC advertisers need to speed up their websites
Google has announced that it will start taking page load times into account when it assesses Quality Score. Quality score is used by the search engine which influences a particular ad’s position on the Google network, as well as minimum bids for keywords. Other factors already taken into account are keyword relevance, the historical clickthrough rates of a particular keyword, as well as landing page quality. Now it seems that…
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Yahoo opens up its search results
Yahoo is launching a new programme that will allow website owners to build plug-ins for Yahoo Search that will enhance their listings in the search results pages. Users of Yahoo Search will then have the option of switching on these enhanced listings, and will see these results when the publisher’s site comes up on a search. These plug-ins will provide additional information in the search results pages, such as further…
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