The last interesting search engine news edition is a long time ago, its from August 15th. Today a fresh one

• Google’s Matt Cutts confirms paid links & Google PageRank update

The partial update to visible PageRank that went out a few days ago was primarily regarding PageRank selling and the forward links of sites. So paid links that pass PageRank would affect our opinion of a site. Going forward, I expect that Google will be looking at additional sites that appear to be buying or selling PageRank.

• Ask.com market share larger than reported?

It is weird how Ask.com shows on comScore and Hitwise at or around 4% yet under their own data (that accurately includes their network of sites) as 11.4%. Are comScore and Hitwise leaving out Ask.com’s network in their calculations?

• Yahoo Site Explorer update

Recently, some of you noticed changes in counts for Site Explorer results, where the counts were different for logged-in users versus logged-out users. While the counts have been incorrect in some cases, the actual returned results have been correct. However, we did roll out a product fix yesterday and will be rolling out a couple more over the next few days to resolve this difference in counts some of you have observed.

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