Twitter search is better than it sed to be, but still, finding people on Twitter is not easy. Here are three ways to find the people you are looking for whether you are looking for old friends or you want to meet new people. Twitter’s own people search lets you search for people you know by en...

Google owns Blogger is one of the best online blog services available. Blogger is not very search engine friendly, though, and the Blogger team even managed to block Google’s search engine crawlers from indexing some of the Blogger blogs. Pandia takes a look at the Blogger/Google relationship ...

Here are some search engine relevant articles from the web this week: Twitter’s ’suggested users’ get mammoth boost from new feature A feature launched last month, called “suggested users,” contributed to the spike, explained Evan Williams, Twitter’s co-founder an...

“Semantic” is a word with a magic ring to it in search engine circles. The way it’s hyped makes you suspect it is the second coming of search. Hypes make me skeptical and I have been biding my time, waiting for the technology to mature. Now the time has come and I’m glad to p...

Ask is determine to fight the search engine battle with the big three, which is good. But then it goes and does something stupid as framing search results. This week Ask.com announced that it is moving into a new data center. The company would not have invested that kind of money if they didn’...

It is still difficult for search engines to exactly pinpoint your identity as a user, but by using various techniques they can learn a lot about you. Should you be worried about your privacy? Ixquick thinks so, and is no longer recording your IP address. Using IP addresses (the code that identifies ...

If you’ve been following Pandia for a while, you know we are great believers in organic SEO: If you want plenty of visitors, make your web site really useful for the kind of readers you want to attract, don’t fret about your page rank and definitely don’t waste much time tweaking y...

This week’s search engine scene, as mapped by Pandia: ComScore: YouTube Now 25 Percent Of All Google Searches Video search on YouTube accounts for a quarter of all Google search queries in the U.S. (TechCrunch Dec 18 2008) A Look-See at Yahoo’s New Open and Social Launch! A lot of the new op...

The rumor has it Microsoft is pondering a search engine name change. Does Kumo sound better than Live to you? Pandia has repeatedly argued that Microsoft’s search engine branding strategy has been a disaster. MSN Search was not exactly poetic, but people did at least know MSN. Then it became W...

As the saying goes: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Here is a tool for all those people that find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than google it for themselves. Your friend asks you a question he could jus...