"Nathan Stoll, former product lead of Google News, has been quietly working on [Mechanical Zoo] a new social search service he started with the help of two other Google refugees, CNET News.com has learned."

Martin Belam: "a newspaper site search ought to be able to index content directly from a CMS faster than Google can crawl a site, and so I thought I’d do a test of how fresh newspaper site search indexes were."

"A local search engine just launched on Facebook. It is called Loladex and you can’t do searches on its Website, only on Facebook. That is because it taps into your friends’ recommendations to rank results."

"Yahoo! will now be indexing Semantic Web and Microformats markup from around the web and will use that information to display more structured search results."

"U.S. law has not caught up with search-engine technology and its implications" - based on James Grimmelmann’s article in the Iowa Law Review.

The group behind the Automated Content Access Protocol has published a set of responses to criticisms it has faced from bloggers since its launch in November.

"Yahoo is testing the integration of Delicious user generated bookmarks into Yahoo search results pages … Some users will see the Delicious icon as part of their normal search results, which tells them how many people have bookmarked those pages"

"A new UK report [by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee] on the habits of the "Google Generation" finds that kids born since 1993 aren’t quite the Internet super-sleuths they’re sometimes made out to be"

"A new UK report [by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee] on the habits of the "Google Generation" finds that kids born since 1993 aren’t quite the Internet super-sleuths they’re sometimes made out to be"

Automated links, RSS feeds, comments, social bookmarking have propelled a phrase coined by Paul Bradshaw from 0 to nearly 1,600 search results in just six days.

Despite what the headline says, this is actually a significant case about Google’s use of thumbnails in images, an issue that has also lead to legal disputes with publishers in Europe. "The justices ruled that a larger public interest in searching for in

Danny Sullivan: "Right now, none of the major search engines are supporting ACAP. If you were to use ACAP without ensuring that standard robots.txt or meta robots commands were also included, you’d fail to properly block search engines."

"A new standard to protect the intellectual property of anyone wishing to make content available on the worldwide web will be unveiled at a conference in New York next month"

"The Search Engine community is abuzz with news that Google has dropped the page ranking for a number of highly-reputable sites, including the Washington Post online, the San Francisco Gate and popular blogs."