2005

You can find Google’s new musicsearch at www.google.com/musicsearch. They are indexing CD-shops, lyrics, notes and...

According to an announcement on the official Yahoo!-Blog, there has been an update to the index. It’s a shame that...

Alexa is offering developers a possibility to access the Alexa-database named websearch. The applications are run directly...

flickr has some pictures from inside the Googleplex.

After some very interesting purchases (for example Flickr), Yahoo! has now also purchased the social-bookmarking-service...

With Google Transit, Google is introducing a searchengine for public transportation. At the moment, the search is still in...

There have been speculations for a while now that Google will expand their already started experiments in the newspaper-...

heisereports that MSN is planning its own online-classifieds-market to go up against Google Base. The interesting part is...

Google’s classifieds-marketplace Google Base now has its own blog over at googlebase.blogspot.com. There, the Base...

What could Google be planning with the freshly installed calendar.google.com subdomain? At the moment at least there is nothing...

It seems that the Googlebot is indexing Google’s new classifieds-marketplace (Base). Maybe they should rename it to...

After CNET’s article on how the freshly started Google Base was being flooded with pornographic materials, it seems...

Now, Google is also planning a pay-per-call-billing for advertising. New in this version is that the searcher gets called...

The Seekport searchengine is now also sporting a blogsearch. In Germany they are supposed to crawl through 300.000 blogs....

Due to recent events, here the note, that domains that are deleted through Google’s Urlconsole are completely and irreversibly...

Google just unlocked their personalized search. If you have a Google- or GMail-Account, you can use this feature at www.google.com/psearch....

My personal experience (uncommented, just click to enlarge):

After presenting their quarterly figures on Thursday, Google’s stock price rose by a good margin, which led the searchengine’s...

Yahoo! is reporting that German Publishing Houses are planning to start a competitor to the just recently started Google...

A posting on seo-news.de made me aware that MSN seems to manually check the SERPs, too. I went through my logs, looking for...

After being able to see some changes in the index for a few days, now we also get the new PageRank as well as the new backlinks....

You can now buy a editoral-account for a PageRank 5 category on eBayeBay. Quickly go and make some money before it is all...

Google Print just started in Germany. Though it seems that in Germany, Google is not automatically indexing large bookcollections,...

The Spiegel.de is reporting, that there are already negotiations on the way between Google, Comcast and AOL. The investors...

You are now able to search for podcasts on Yahoo! Personally, I think this silliness is just a hype.

After the recent cleaning- and polishing-actions in the Googleindex, the quality of the SERPs is rising and spam is getting...

On October 22nd at 3 PM the fourth SEO Regulars-Table will be held in Munich. There will be representatives from Google,...

With the Google Reader, Google introduced a onlineapplication for reading RSS-feeds. Those who want to use this service need...

Now, after Google had quite a bit of trouble with their plan to digitize whole libraries, the Open Content Alliance (OCA),...

Google’s first non-beta version of their toolbar for the Firefox browser can now be downloaded. Besides the PageRank...

Yahoo! got a new searchindex and therefore a completely new set of SERPs. It is also interesting that they are now showing...

Google got in trouble again thanks to Google Print. With Google Print the searchengine is digitizing the libraries of large...

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Just as the rumors that have been around for a few days now rumored, MSN is now offering an API (Application Programming...

The MIT’s simplicity blog compared the homepages of Yahoo! and Google. It is quite interesting to see how the one design...

Gpuzzle.com crawls Google Images for fitting pictures for sentences and shows a graphical interpretation of that sentence....

The accusations that Yahoo was complicit in the arrest of a journalist by passing on data is growing into a public-relations-disaster....

Google’s official birthday was 09.07.1998. Happy 7th birthday.

AnandTech switched the search on their site to the Google-Mini-Box and has already put up a small test.

Google started Google Local forChina, which is supposed to hold informations on more than 100 cities, 77 of which also have...

Heise.de is reporting that Google Print is about to start in Europe, too. Jens Redmer, the Google-Manager in charge, told...

Dr. Bahr is reporting that the LG Leipzig decided that using a term as a keyword for Google AdWords is neither a trademark...

explido WebMarketing‘s monthly pricelist for searchengine advertisement prices, SPIXX, shows that the prices for terms...

After Phil Ringnalda posted in his Blog that on some pages of the O’Reilly-network there are some links that were set...

David Wolski, editor for sueddeutsche.de, wrote up a short article on how German users can get an e-mail address on the gmail.com-domain....

Google Southpark-style

Google just opened its e-mail service GMail up for everyone in the USA. Until now, you needed an invitation of a GMail-user...

There had been speculations but not its official, Google just started a messaging-service. Google Talk allows GMail-users...

Google announced, that they wish to sell an additional 14,16 million shares. At the current price of around 275 US-Dollar,...

Google AdSense now has their own official blog. Google-employees should blog tips and informations there two to three times...

A UIUC study is casting doubts on Yahoo!s reported number of 19,2 billion websites in their index. In this study, they tested...

IP2Nation is a free database that puts countries to IPs. This can be interesting for the delivery of ad-banners. Via: Webhosting...

In his blog, Rand Fishkin recollects a conversation with Google-employees at the Search Engine Strategies, in which Google...

In their own blog, Yahoo! Disclosed that they now have 20 billion documents (19,2 billion websites, 1,6 billion pictures...

Mario Dolzer, CEO of Universal Boards GmbH & Co KG seems to want to circumvent the mandatory blockings that Whois-server...

In its own pressrelease, Google announced that they are looking to fill 2 head chef positions. To make things more interesting,...

Today, Yahoo started the beta for their Yahoo! Publisher Network (YPN). 2000 betatesters should put the Ads on their sites...

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Today, Microsoft started their betaversion of Virtual Earth as a competitor to Google Maps. Just like Google, MSN offers...

At the moment, Google will give out a 25 EUR gift-card to all new customers.

In the fight for the searching public, Yahoo! is now also offering a toolbar for the free Firefox browser. The toolbar has...

Google will hold a webseminar at 11:30 pm MEZ on the subject of Google AdSense Reports. This will be a 30 minute seminar...

Google Moon lets you take a look at the surface of the moon. Sadly the resolution is not good enough to make out little green...

Yahoo! now also blogs in German at http://ysearchblog.com/de/

The time is upon us once again: Google started an update for the PageRanks that are shown in the toolbar. Those of you who...

Amazon, the Internetshop and affiliate-program pioneer is turning 10. Happy Birthday. A click on the picture will produce...

After both Google and Yahoo! have already made the Wikipedia-database part of their results, Web.de is not offering an extensive...

Google is dominating the Internet-searchenginemarket. But now, both Microsoft and Yahoo want to catch up. This is about the...

google.blognewschannel.com is reporting that many copyrighted movies have shown up at Google Video. Interesting how this...

The manufacturer of the canned meatpaste is trying to assure their customers that Spam is healthy ever since 1937. Cannadian...

Reuters is reporting, that Click Defense is suing Google because Google is unable to effectively prevent click-fraud. Click...

At chillingeffects.org you can get a list of all the cases in which Google changed the SERPs due to alleged Digital Millennium...

Google’s purchase of sateliteimage-provider Keyhole is yielding the first fruits: Google released the first version...

For the first time, Google stocks have overcome the 300 US-Dollar-mark at the New York Technology-exchange NASDAQ. This is...

Mediapost.com is reporting that, at the moment, MSN is looking for bloggers on five different topics. They will have to write...

According to an article in ADWEEK, 53% of searchengine-users do not know the difference between organic results and the advertisements....

The rumors about a Google payment-system were now confirmed by CEO Eric Schmidt. He mentioned though, that Google’s...

Vericlix is offering a free tool against click-fraud for PPC-campaigns. For this, all a webmaster has to do, is add a JavaScript-Code...

MSN introduced a localized-search for America. After entering your own address, the search offers everything that you can...

Today, Google started the German version of their Googlesearch for cell-phones. If a cell-phone goes to www.google.de, they...

heise.de is reporting that Yahoo! also bought DialPad, an Internet-telephone provider. DialPad is mostly offering services...

Jim Winstead is writing that Yahoo! just bought the blog-ping-service blo.gs. The service, containing 8,785,909 active blogs,...

After the announcement, that, in the future, Espotting and the FindWhat Group will appear in public under the consolidated...

After the rumors that Google is planning on developing their own browser to bind users closer to their searchengine, it seems...

Two interesting articles, one in the Guardian, the other in the Times, are dealing with the question of how far Google’s...

As announced, Mirago is starting an AdSense-alternative. The first advertisements were now observed and it is amazing, how...

cnet is reporting that the .xxx-domains, which are designed for erotic-websites, are close to be approved by ICANN (Internet...

An article on Searchbistro depicts how Google is working together with editors to improve their searchengineresults. They...

The Google Toolbar once again shows your PageRank. It seems that the outage was due to a technical problem.

Since this morning, the Google Toolbar stopped displaying the PageRank. Until now, Google has not commented on the reasons...

The German Book-Trade is planning an online full-text-search for German Books, according to a report on heise.de. This is...

Ask Jeeves is buying the Excite Italia B.V, which means Excite Europe, from Tiscali. According to Tiscali, the price was...

Google’s AdWords Team now also has its own Blog: Google AdWords Blog

Grokker uses a Java-applet to visualize the Yahoo!-searchresults. Nice to look at but not really something new.

Google is updating the PageRank once again. For those of you who are curious, you can use this tool to check it already.

The American Internet-company Yahoo managed to double their profits in the first quarter of 2005. More at heise.de

problogger.net is reporting that Google AdSense is experimenting with new ad-formats at the time that are also available...

The Google-Toolbar 3 has now also been released as a German version in beta-phase. The most important changes are a spell-checker...

With Ride Finder, Google Labs is showcasing an interesting use of geo-data. They are, for example, showing the current taxi-positions...

Georges Harik, Gmail product management director, announced today that GMail will keep upgrading the storage in the days...

Google’s Desktopsearch, which searches for files on the computers hard-drive, is now also available in German. With...

Yahoo! now offers a search especially for documents that are subject to the Creative Commons License.

The Google searchengine announced the purchasing of the statistic-service-provider Urchin. Urchin offers a web-analytics...

According to the Wall Street Journal, Interactive Corp., an Internet-investment-company, is about ready to take over Ask...

Conveniently timed with the start of the CeBIT, Yahoo! Deutschland has put a videosearch online. This beta version of a searchfunction...

According to the Wirtschaftswoche, T-Online, after Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, now wants to offer their own desktop-searchengine....

Google is now offering the full version of their desktop-search for download. After five month of beta-testing, they added...

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An article at ZDNet UK looks at the relationship between Google and the Mozilla Foundation. This partnership nets the Mozilla...

A long long time ago, as far as Internet-dimensions are concerned, Yahoo! started out as a hand-tended catalog. It was one...

This Is the title of an interesting article on the origins of Google by John Heilemann.

With Localsearch, AOL is now also offering a localized searchfunction besides Yahoo! and Google. Once your address is saved,...

Google just released a beta-version of their Toolbar 3. They added a spell-checker that checks input into forms. Additionally,...

The Wikimedia-foundation announced that Google has offered to host part of the Wikipedia-project. They are appropriating...

The Searchengineoperator Ask Jeeves has bought Bloglines, a site that specializes on new and Internet-diaries. According...

In its second regular quarterly earning statement, Google shows that it took in revenues of 1,03 Billion US-Dollar. This...

With a beta-version of it’s API for AdWords, Google will now give advertisers the possibility to manage ad-campaigns...

At video.google.com you are now able to search through the US-American TV-programming. While the number of stations is still...

Now, heise.de also has its own price-comparison. The Site for the heise-publishing-house, publishes the three magazines c’t,...

According to Nielsen Media Research, online-advertisement was able to gain a plus of 21 percent in the second quarter of...

According to the British Times, Google could soon start offering a free Internet-telephone service. Sadly, this article is...

Today, Microsoft launched its new MSN-search at suche.msn.de. It seems that they are putting more emphasis on domain names...