Brad Enslen: News

Infospace and ABCNews

Wed, 12 Feb 2003 16:11:03 GMT

InfoSpace forms deal with ABCNews.com. The wireless Internet software company says it will offer search features to ABCNews.com and distribute the news service's multimedia content to Verizon's broadband subscribers. By Jim Hu, Staff Writer, CNET News.com. [CNET News.com] Very interesting to see a quality metasearch gaining some customers. So it is not all going to the big spidering engines.

Major Search Changes at SearchKing

Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:01:09 GMT

SearchKing http://searchking.com/ has changed the way search results are displayed and has greatly increased the size of its database. "Every search on SearchKing now pulls the ultimate, quality, topical, human reviewed data on the planet. Every search pulls the data from the portal network first and then the regular, hand submitted SearchKing results and then the backfill we have from Spaex." said SearchKing CEO Bob Massa in an announcement on February 10th, 2003.

AltaVista to Expand to India

Thu, 30 Jan 2003 12:26:43 GMT

AltaVista To Set Up Shop, Revs Up For Hindi Engine. Financial Express Jan 29 2003 7:34PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] This is a huge market and could be very lurcrative for AV. Looks like there will be a Hindi language engine too.

Yahoo Winning Back Market Share?

Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:40:35 GMT

OneStat.com reports that Yahoo has gained back a bit of search market share in the last two months in this press release. "Yahoo's global usage share has risen from 20.6 percent to 22.1 percent the last 2 months."

Yahoo Hires Overture Exec

Wed, 29 Jan 2003 11:44:26 GMT

Yahoo has hired a key executive away from Overture according to news reports. Yahoo is in the process of buying Inktomi and this hiring will assist Yahoo with paid inclusion programs for search.

Search Engine Watch Awards

Wed, 29 Jan 2003 01:30:49 GMT

Search Engine Watch has announced the 2002 Search Engine Watch Awards Winners. Google pretty much won in every category they qualified for. Some interesting choices for second place winners and runners up. Congratulations to all the winners.

Search Engine/Portal/Directory News Needed

Mon, 27 Jan 2003 20:23:12 GMT

I need your help. I cannot gather the information about all the smaller search engines and directories on my own. Heck I might not even know they exist. So I need you to tell me about them. If you run a small search engine or directory let me know about it and keep me up to date on any news you might have about it. I will pass it on. It does not have to be a formal press release. Just tell me interesting things about it, what you want to accomplish and include the URL. Helping others learn about alternative search locations, and why they should use them, is one of my most important tasks. Just click on the envelope icon on the left border and go! Or write me at altsearch_NO_SPAM@operamail.com Thanks.

SearchKing v. Google

Mon, 27 Jan 2003 12:56:45 GMT

SearchKing update: preliminary injunction denied [LawMeme: Legal Bricolage for a Technological Age] Interesting coverage by LawMeme. I agree, that the denial of the prliminary injunction cannot be viewed as a SearchKing victory. However, it is not over. If Google's PageRank is an opinion, thus having 1st Amendment protection, can it also be patentable? This is the counterpoint that has been raised by SK in response. Search Engine Optimization Support Forums http://www.supportforums.org/ made an interesting point: http://www.supportforums.org/article166.html More discussion: http://www.cre8asiteforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=799 Here is my take on it. The battle is not in the courtroom. The battle is in the court of public opinion.

Internet Attack

Sat, 25 Jan 2003 21:58:12 GMT

Virus-like attack hits web traffic. An attack by malicious computer code dramatically slows internet traffic - and South Korea's web services are shut down. [BBC News | Technology | UK Edition]