March 7, 2010

Pandia Search Engine News Wrap-up March 7

Here is our weekly wrap-up of Internet search and search engine industry oriented headlines.

Google Buys Online Collaboration Operator DocVerse
Something good is about to happen with Google’s cloud computing service – that is interoperability with Microsoft Office files (SE Journal March 3 2010)
The five-minute guide to Google Squared
Arrange data from the web in a neat spreadsheet (techradar March 6 2010)
Google Launches Gesture Search for Android
To use the search, you write a letter across the screen. (SE Watch March 5 2010)

Google Kills SearchWiki, Replaces It With Starred Results
The ability to re-order, remove, and comment on search results has been replaced by a scaled-down version (SE Land March 3 1010)
SMX West 2010 Live Blogging Recap
Keri Morgret of Strike Models and Brian Ussery of Beu Blog spent a tremendous amount of time and energy live blogging the event. (March 5 2010)
Bing & Yahoo Soon To Support Canonical Tag
At SMX West on Thursday, reps from both search engines said they’re in the process of supporting rel=canonical right now. (SE Land March 5 2010)
YouTube adds automatic subtitles for the deaf
Latest speech recognition breakthrough for the hard of hearing (techradar march 5 2010)
Peter Norvig offers an insider’s look at Google Research during SMX West
A list of new products from Google (SE Watch March 3 2010)
Google’s Norvig: PageRank Is Overhyped
Speaking at SMX WestGoogle’s Director of Research said that PageRank is overhyped and probably needs a new name (SE Land March 3 2010)
Google’s Proposal For Crawling AJAX URLs is Live
The documentation is live on Google Code (SE Land March 3 2010)
Yahoo CEO Bartz Says Would Have Sold Yahoo, Mocks Facebook
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz stated she would have sold Yahoo at $36 when Microsoft was offering (SE Watch March 2 2010)
Google Italy ruling might very well turn out to be a blessing
Its time to finally get the law straightened out. Laws in almost every country in the world are outdated. (State of Search March 2 2010)
How to Check If Google China Still Self-Censors
On January 12th, Google said they are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn (Blogoscoped March 2 2010)
Topeka Changes Its Name To Google, Kansas (Temporarily)
What would you do to get Google to build a super high-speed broadband network in your hometown? (SE Land March 2 2010)
Google to Yahoo: Excuse Us While We Buy Your Photo Editor
Picnik is, among other things, the default editor for Yahoo’s Flickr. (BoomTown March 1 2010)
Google has acquired Picnik, photo editor in the cloud
Using Picnik, you can crop, do touch-ups and add cool effects to your photos, all without leaving your web browser. (Google Blog March 1 2010)
Google Maps Integrates Flickr Photos
Geo-tagged, user-submitted Flickr photos as well as other location-specific photos from Google’s own Picasa (Marketing Pilgrim March 1 2010)
AT&T Ditches Google For Yahoo Search on Motorola Backflip
It’ll be the first Android device of any kind with Yahoo as the main search engine (Gizmodo March 2 2010)
Bing Autosuggest – History Repeats Itself – and That is a Good Thing
Bing adds support for query history in Autosuggest (Bing Community March 1 2010)
Ballmer Sees Innovation as the Key To Search Success
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said he thinks the deal with Yahoo will greatly improve the relevance of advertising placed next to search results (Newsfactor March 5 2010)
Click here to find out more! Real-time search startups blow away Google, Yahoo, and Bing at SMX West
I don’t agree that Google has crushed real-time search for startups. (Venture Beat March 5 2010)
Bing blocks online sex searches in Middle East: study
The Open Net Initiative (ONI) on Friday said Microsoft’s search engine Bing is more prudish than government censors (AFP March 5 2010)
China to punish hackers, says no Google complaint
China has pledged to punish hackers who attacked Google if there is evidence to prove it (Reuters March 6 2010)