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 ...

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 ...

Yahoo! has a new boss, and her name is Carol Bartz. She is the former chief executive of software company Autodesk Inc. “She is admired in the Valley as well as on Wall Street for her deep management expertise, strong customer orientation, excellent people skills, and firm understanding of the...

The Inside Google Book Search blog has announced that it is closing down its Google Catalog Search Product. If you have never heard about it, don’t worry, it was never really meant to become a popular product. Its real use was to help Google conquer the world. The Pandia Post presented Google ...

In an interview with the Financial Times Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says that the company will try to get hold of Yahoo’s search business. Microsoft is no longer interested in the whole company. Pandia believes this a strategy that will help neither Microsoft nor Yahoo! Ballmer clearly believ...

What does one in this industry do when they find out that one of their own is out of a job? In most industries, everyone just says "sorry" and then they go on about their day. But not on Search......

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...

Pandia argues that Google’s deal with US publishers and authors may lead to a new revolution in book dissemination — one that can be compared to the importance of the printing press. This week the Official Google Blog announced that Google has made a deal with US publishers regarding the...

The world is heading into a global recession. Will search companies like Google and Yahoo! come out as winners or losers? Yahoo! announced that it would lay off 10 percent of its workforce this week. Is the search engine industry feeling the recession already? There might be optimists out there that...