Google Reader quietly introduced two nifty features aimed at finding more not so well known and yet interesting blogs and a better way of organizing these blogs’ feeds.First of these two new features is the personalized feed recommendations. When you log in to your Google account and visit the Google Reader’s discovery page, you’ll [...]

  There are some exciting new innovations in search coming up on the horizon, and one of those is a project currently being worked on by a Canadian computer science grad student, who is mapping the way the human brain works and applying it to technology that will eventually power a search engine dedicated to visual [...]

  Following up on yesterday’s story about a massive malware attack on the “big three” search engines, which saw the manipulation of the search engines to rank malicious malware sites high in the results pages, it seems that Google has at least taken steps to remove the offending sites from their indexes. However, when questioned [...]

  Google Experimental is testing the ability to actually change the ranking of results or delete sites listed in personalized search results, in a Digg style setting (similar to some tests they were running at Google’s SearchMash).If you like the page listed in a search result, you can bump it up to the top where it [...]

  Yahoo’s latest move towards expanding the reach of its advertisement program is in the form of Adobe’s popular document reading format, Adobe PDF.Dubbed as Ads for Adobe PDF, Yahoo’s new advertising program gives publishers an alternative to conventional way of serving ads. An ad for Adobe PDF is set to begin testing soon and will [...]

  The Official Gmail Blog just announced the addition of group chat and rich emoticons into Gmail’s chat facility. The Gmail Group Chat allows multiple chat with Gmail contacts at once. Any participant can invite another participant. Starting a chat  is pretty simple, once you start a chat session with a friend, you can easily pull [...]

  Relegence, a financial news search engine that AOL acquired last year, is finally being put to good use. AOL has just launched a new website that is primarily aimed at investors, which includes real-time streaming of financial and investing news from more than 3,000 sources.The beta version of the site is now publicly available, [...]

  AOL and CBS Radio has reached an agreement whereby video contents from AOL’s Truveo will be made available on CBS Radio’s websites. Under the said partnership, Truveo’s video search engine will be integrated into more than 35 CBS Radio stations spanning several different formats and markets across the country.Truveo has a wide selection of [...]

  According to a security research firm report issued on Tuesday, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live Search are currently under a large-scale organized attack campaign designed to steer online searchers towards malicious malware websites.Chances are, if you do any significant amount of searching, you may even run across some of these dangerous search results. Hundreds [...]

  This may be my shortest blog post in a long time, but here’s a quick question :Are you going to Search Engine Strategies Chicago or PubCon 2007 in Vegas?And why?