Search engine news of the week

Google agrees to acquire Urchin

"Urchin is a web site analytics solution used by web site owners and marketers to better understand their users' experiences, optimize content and track marketing performance.[...]

Google plans to make these tools available to web site owners and marketers to better enable them to increase their advertising return on investment and make their web sites more effective."


Gigablast search engine now offering related pages
"Gigablast Inc [...] announced its new Related Pages feature which is available to the public via the company’s website,. [...] Related Pages are highly relevant search results which do not necessarily contain the searcher’s query terms. A lot of these related pages are never even returned by other search engines for that reason."


Ask Jeeves gets Diller's cash, keeps staff
"Ask Jeeves Inc.'s acquisition by media mogul Barry Diller's IAC/InterActive Corp. this week for $1.85 billion in stock will lead to some layoffs at the Oakland Web search engine but it will also bring more resources for Jeeves to compete with market leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc."


Yahoo adds search for 'flexible' copyright content

"Yahoo has added a feature that lets people search content that's been licensed through Creative Commons, a nonprofit group that specializes in copyrighting material so that it's available for some reuse."


Search engine newslets
Google opens a new office in India.
ZoomInfo is a people information search engine.
Take a look at the sources for Google news.
Play Google's Easter game.
Queryster released a meta search engine with a Mac OS X look.
Google to support universities.
Google's 1999 "Tell a friend about Google" page is still online.
The Google store has added many new products, including a marble blaze.