Comparing Survival Strategies of Major Search Engines

What happens when there are Too many Great Features

[usa1]

www.silicon.com/networks/webwatch/0,39024667,39117616,00.htm
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story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/zd/20040105/tc_zd/115619

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www.google.com/help/index.html

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It may be probable that Microsoft is holding back any further releases of Internet Explorer Upgrades until their release of their own Search Engine.

This may be a sign that the Two will have such a connected interface - that it will cause another controversy/lawsuit

[usa1]

www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=26098

[usa1]

INSIDE YAHOO! ¦¦ SPONSOR RESULTS
Finally - The SERPs....

After cruising through the "INSIDE YAHOO!" then the "SPONSOR RESULTS"

Having a high result on Yahoo's SERPs may be so diluted as to be almost meaningless....

This may eventually keep Yahoo! from successfully De-throning Google

[usa1]

Yahoo! Establishes
Yahoo! Research Labs for advanced Technology Innovation; R&D Organization to Focus on Developing New Technologies in Search and Other Businesses

The formation of Yahoo! Research Labs (http://labs.yahoo.com), will establish a research organization focused on inventing new technologies and solutions

Including:
pay for performance search, web search, vertical businesses and platform technologies. The organization will be led by Yahoo!'s Head Scientist Dr. Gary William Flake, former chief science officer of Overture and founder of Overture Research.

[usa1]

MSN has apparently just altered it's position from last week of making INKTOMI the "natural" listings right after OVERTURE

They have just started using a tweaked version of Looksmart again!

[usa1]

MSN will release it's new TOOLBAR

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Google has instituted a major Relevancy SERPs Algorithmic Change over the weekend -

Apparently - competative keyword rankings are the ones most affected - this may be a programming flaw or an attempt to react to "Google Bombing"

[usa1]

Google has changed the RELEVANCY SERPs Algorithms of it's Image Search Results ....

This was a major change - many of the images that have come up in popular searches for many months have now been replaced ....

[usa1]

The New York Times has an article comparing the Current Competative strategies of Google and Microsoft

news.com.com/2100-1032-5151934.html

[usa1]

YAHOO!

Yahoo is now, adding local Yellow Page listings based on any cities or specific locations included in a surfers' search query

- automatically -

at the top of the SERPs of search queries

Also, a link is included for pages with full listings

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MSN & GOOGLE

www.isedb.com/news/index.php?t=reviews&id=675

According to this article Microsoft's Employees are harrassing Google's

www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=2725_0_2_0_C

This suggests Microsoft will attempt to by Google one it becomes an IPO

[edited by: usa1 at 6:33 pm (utc) on Feb. 5, 2004]

[OldFatherTime]

G'day USA1 - have you actually got something to say, something you are prepared to discuss, or are you merely trying to boost your post count?

[sidyadav]

hm.. yeah, this is the first time I've seen someone post 9 messages in a row!

But whats the reason you want to boost your post count anyway?

YAHOO!
Yahoo is now, adding local Yellow Page listings based on any cities or specific locations included in a surfers' search query

- automatically -

at the top of the SERPs of search queries

Also, a link is included for pages with full listings

nothing related to what your thread's title reads - comparing survival strategies of major search engines.

Sid

[usa1]

Interesting to compare the strategy of Google to Yahoo!

While Yahoo is offering Yellow page listings automatically depending on keywords

Google is offerings Excerpts from Google News on the top of the SERPs depending on keywords in the Query

Wonder what will MSN will eventually do...