The founder of Wikipedia (Jimmy Wales) announced last Friday that he is creating a community developed web search service that would be a rival for other search engines such as Google or Yahoo. Wikipedia already acquired a pioneering web crawler named Grub (from LookSmart) to index relevant sites. Grub was originally an open source project [...]

This is the fifth post about interesting search engine news! For the previous one you can click here. Search engines are mysterious, every one of them. Like Google is messing around with the pagerank update. I have a hate / love relationship with all of them. Here is some interesting search engine news I found [...]

The Google pagerank update is in a big delay. There are stories popping up on the web claiming that the Google pagerank is history. I talked with a few big guys in the web development world and they also heard these stories, even from sources that are very close with Google. This Google webrank will [...]

Google recently filed a patent application with the title “Detecting and rejecting annoying documents“. Here’s the abstract of the application:
“A system and method for evaluating documents for approval or rejection [...]

Another edition of interesting search engine news! I found some new changes from google and …. google and google. Google is still dominating the search engine atmosphere, but I believe everything will come at its end one day. I think there are several killing google plans out on the web. And it will happen, only [...]