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According to the latest report although Yahoo search engine users have declined but when it comes to web search ad market it has started gaining more than Google. A research by the Marketing firm SearchIgnite shows Yahoo out pacing Google in spending on search advertising, ad viewer ship and click-through rates during the first quarter. Besides that recently it has also tweaked its search engine technology.

This article on the official yahoo search blog states that yahoo has made a major upgrade to its search engine crawler Slurp.

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been preparing for the latest version of the Yahoo! Search crawler with some infrastructure updates, which recently caused a variance in our crawl behavior.

Hotwise an online competitive intelligence service announced in its report that Google search attained a new high while Microsoft and Yahoo! Search attained new lows. According to March 2008 statistics for the search engine in USA, Google received 67.25% of the entire US search. While Yahoo search received 20.29%, MSN search received 5.25% and ASK.com search received 4.09%.

Google’s domination in the Search space is inspiring others to build stronger and better search engines.
MyLiveSearch hit the news last week – when they said they were building something to rival Google and that “searching the internet will never be the same…”.
They are planning on a world wide launch around the end of June. It [...]

TechCrunch wins the best search blog for the year 2006 on WEB 2.0 platform. Techcrunch is an awesome blog site. I my self used to take leads from the site for Wat some times.  Edited by Michael Arrington , who is editor for Crunch notes, the blog started in mid 2005, has been a weblog [...]

                Here are some interesting predictions floating around the Web on the potential for radical moves in the online search industry - and most of the ideas involve what Yahoo (YHOO) needs to do to stay competitive with Google (GOOG).
For instance, today’s 2007 prognostications from ZDNet’s Between the Lines blog proposed that Yahoo’s (YHOO) Panama [...]

A group of Indian researchers claim to have developed an Internet search technology that can recognise the personality of a user and automatically align the results according to his or her interest.
To get recognised Users must register at http://search.t6labs.com/ After this the user can start searching by giving any query on the web,Once he gets the [...]

Guruji.com, backed by Sequoia Capital India, has announced a partnership with OneIndia.com an integrated Internet portal, delivering content, community and commerce to Indian consumers and businesses and claims over 70 million hits a month. Guruji Search Engine will power all the searches on OneIndia. OneIndia will be replacing existing search provider with Guruji. (Press Release)

ByIndia.com a website to search, bid for online auctions, blog, create personal pages, browse classified ads, or post and view video clips relevant to India will support Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Bengali and Marathi as well as English for all searches and menu text Starting from January 1, 2007. With increased accessibility and ease of use [...]

Firstly i would like to apologize to all WATblog readers for taking so much time for the Part 7 of the India 2.0 series. I guess i pay the price of being an entrepreneur trying to change the way fresher recruitment is done in India. In short have been busy with generating revenue and answering questions of investors [...]

                 Finding personal information on Web. I can find anyone I want. This is what Spock is into. They have designed a people search engine (aka like linkedin, which is almost a social network), which serves up a picture, address, occupation, interests & other information based on name you search for. There are many features [...]

               Imagine an Organization with huge portfolios, huge database (for Knowledge sharing, Resource information, Policy Documents etc), which has to be constantly accessed for different information. When we say information is wealth, we also understand the importance of getting information in a short span of time. And in an enterprise, the source of information doesnt [...]

Since we started the India 2.0 series the activity in the web 2.0 space in India has grown manifold. Our last part India 2.0 part 5 featured 8 web 2.0 sites and we thought it would be the longest post on WATblog for sometime.. But guess we proved ourselves worng in just a week.. So [...]

This is the best to come from John Battelle, one of the co-authors of the buzz WEB 2.0. His fantasies on Search Engines & Economy are well known. Here is a blog, that he has created for all Search Maniacs and fanatics (Like me) to come together and put stories related to Search Economy, Engines [...]

                             Jatalla (www.jatalla.com), the new "100%" human powered search engine. Now dont imagine that there will be 1000′S OF SEO’s sitting and ranking the pages manually. Being self poccessive, I tried to check the search results of my name (Usually thats 3rd or 4th link on Google), it gave me No results. I thought I should Pass [...]