Can You Get By Without Google & Major Search Engines?

There are two projects going on today to see if we can survive without the major search engines. The first project is for searchers, to see if they can search alternative search engines without using the five major engines. The second project is for search marketers, to see if they can generate enough ...

Jun. 12, 2007 at 9:30am Eastern by Barry Schwartz

Zuula Meta Search Engine

Zuula is a multi/meta search engine that I noticed the other day. It provides access to search engines in the areas of Web, News, Images, Blogs and Jobs. It takes results from various different engines in each category, but mainly uses Google, Yahoo, Ask, and MSN. It works in a similar fashion to engines ...
Related Searches: Metasearch | Jobs

Jan. 11, 2007 at 8:16am Eastern by Phil Bradley

CrossEngine: Fast & Easy Way To Search Several Search Engines

CrossEngine is the new (and in my opinion better) name for the Mr Sapo meta search engine. It is similar in functionality to TurboScout and Trovando in that it has a search box at the top of the screen with a list of search engines that you can use below that. Simply type in your search, click on the ...
Related Searches: Search Engine

Jan. 30, 2007 at 6:50am Eastern by Phil Bradley

Pandia Offers Custom Search For Search Information

Pandia is offering a free custom search called the Search Engine Detective, a meta search engine which lets you do specialized searches for anything search engine related. Search Engine Detective give you two options: “All the best sites about search engines” searches a wide variety of sites and ...

Mar. 5, 2007 at 6:40pm Eastern by Chris Sherman

eTools.ch: A "Swiss Army" Meta Search Engine

I'm generally not a big fan of meta search technologies—I prefer to go directly to the search service I feel will likely give me the best response for any given query, rather than sifting through the aggregated results from several engines. But recently, developer Stephan Schmid invited me ...
Related Searches: Clusty

Mar. 30, 2007 at 1:11pm Eastern by Chris Sherman

Google 2.0: Google Universal Search

Google is undertaking the most radical change to its search results ever, introducing a "Universal Search" system that will blend listings from its news, video, images, local and book search engines among those it gathers from crawling web pages. The new system officially rolls out today ...
Related Searches: Google Base | Universal Search | Universal | Search 2.0

May. 16, 2007 at 2:33pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Search Year 2007: Search News, In Review

Each month, I compile Search Month -- a recap of all the stories that have happened relating to search, categorized by topic. I thought it would be fun to take all the Search Months over the past year and produce this edition of Search Year 2007. It was far more work than I imagined, but I hope you ...
Related Searches: People Search | Search Advertising | Reachlocal | Search Trend

Jan. 1, 2008 at 2:29pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Google Universal Search: 2008 Edition

It's just over a half-year since Google launched Universal Search, its method of blending results from its own various topically-focused or "vertical" search engines. Since that time, the system has evolved. In particular, Google Universal Search now fills more than just 10 spots on the page ...
Related Searches: Universal Search | Image Search | Search 3.0

Jan. 30, 2008 at 10:32am Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Search Month: May 2007 Search News, In Review

Search Month is a monthly newsletter that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past month. It's also available by feed here. Below, news about Search Engine Land itself, then our 10 most popular stories from May 2007, then a major story for various search topics along with other stories ...
Related Searches: Search Engine Usage | Baidu | Search Engine Share | Blinkx

Jun. 11, 2007 at 3:49pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan

Search Month: January 2007 Search News, In Review

Welcome to the second edition of Search Month, a monthly newsletter that recaps stories we've covered on Search Engine Land over the past month. It's also available by feed here. I've now shifted Search Month to listing stories by topic, rather than by date. I've long done this to some degree when ...
Related Searches: Google Bombing

Feb. 2, 2007 at 12:43pm Eastern by Danny Sullivan