Yahoo Search Marketing Ranking Model Changes

We’ve known it was coming as Yahoo has been talking about it for a while now, but the new ranking model will be officially unleashed on February 5, 2007, according to Yahoo’s mass mail out news letter. In the good old days things were very simple. If you wanted...

Microsoft Book Search Beta

Following in the steps of Google, Microsoft has launched a Beta version of its non-copyright book search. Live Book Search doesn’t look like much, and when visiting the site there are no immediate indications that there is anything different here than the...

Ask Goes Local

On Monday Ask launched a local search service that strongly competes with other existing services offered by the big 3. AskCity allows users to search for businesses, events, movies, and maps with directions. This service has integrated a number of those owned by...

Ebay Hikes Rates, Where’s Google?

Recently the world of online auctioneers saw the rates at eBay spike a little higher, and has a number of sellers very unhappy about the situation. This has also sparked a number of eBay listings surrounding this hike, like this T-Shirt “I survived the eBay Rate...