Category Archives: Search News

MSN Abandons Yahoo Bid

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on May 5, 2008. Filed under Search News. No comments.

After a few months of wrangling, MSN has now officially abandoned its efforts in bidding for Yahoo. Yahoo shareholders are now bracing themselves for a share slump as a direct result of this news.   MSN’s decision to officially bid for the world’s second largest search engine was made towards the end of January when it bid $45 [...]

Barbarians at Yahoo’s “Gates”

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on February 4, 2008. Filed under Search News. 1 Comment.
Microsoft Yahoo Style Logo

Unless your head’s been in the sand for the past week, you’ve probably heard by now that Microsoft has made an unsolicited offer to buy out Yahoo for $45 Billion.  You’ve also probably heard that Google has proposed an unholy alliance with Yahoo to save it from being swallowed. It all started just over 7 months ago when Jerry [...]

MSN to Buy FAST Enterprise Search

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on January 11, 2008. Filed under MSN News, Search News. No comments.

MSN has announced that it will buy the FAST “Enterprise” Search engine for $1.2 dollars.  Fast is a Norwegian enterprise search company focusing on providing tailored search software and solutions to large global businesses.  The deal was announced last Tuesday and gives Microsoft a strong footing in the Enterprise search market where “Fast” has traditionally been a [...]

Google’s Universal Search Extends to Blogs

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on December 14, 2007. Filed under Search News. 1 Comment.

Back in June I posted about SEO for Universal Search and how the future of search results will, in some form or another include images, videos, maps, news, books and now blog posts!  Yes, it is official folks, Google will in the coming weeks start to include blog posts as part of its search engine results pages (SERPS). This [...]

ASK Launches the Ask Eraser Privacy Tool

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on December 12, 2007. Filed under Search News. No comments.
ASK Eraser

In response to Google’s promise to only keep search records for 12-18 months, asked has announced that it will allow its users to completely erase their search activity from the search engines within 2-3 hours.  This development comes only 6 months after the official announcement by ASK.  According to the ASK Eraser FAQ, users can now click a [...]