ZapMeta - A Promising New Meta Search Engine
(February 26, 2004 - Search Engine Watch)
A new meta search engine offers speedy, relevant results, and some cool visualization features that actually make it easy to check out sponsored listings without leaving your results page.

Google Adds Wireless Froogle Searching
(February 25, 2004 - ResearchBuzz)
Google's long offered a WML version of its search site for those with cell phone web browsers. Now they've added Froogle shopping results, as well.

Startups Seek New Ways to Search the Net
(February 24, 2004 - Knight Ridder)
Search is hot, so new companies are entering the space and hoping to find some kind of niche between Yahoo, Google and Microsoft.

Yahoo! Goes 'Pay For Exclusion!'
(February 23, 2004 - netimperative)
Yahoo has let slip that it will soon exclude Inktomi paid inclusion URLs from its main results. Quite simply, if you've subscribed your URLs to the Inktomi index, then you'll be found in Yahoo! searches until 15th April. After that - you get dumped and have to pay to get back into Yahoo! You can still be found over at MSN and HotBot where Inktomi results are still primary though.

The Google Guys
(February 23, 2004 - ABCNews)
This week's ABCNews Persons of the Week are Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of the widely popular Google search engine. Two young men in their 30s have had an extraordinary impact on people's lives … millions of people. Their universe got bigger this week, and thus so did the world's.

Paid Search Still Strong; Banners and E-Mail Beefing Up
(February 19, 2004 - ClickZ News)
Paid search's wild ride isn't over, according to a Jupiter Research report predicting that the sector will drive growth of online advertising to $14.8 billion by 2008, helped along by banner ads and e-mail marketing.

Yahoo Dumps Google Search Technology
(February 17, 2004 - CNET News.com)
Yahoo dropped Google as the default search technology provider for its U.S.-based sites late Tuesday, signaling the beginning of the end for the Web's most high-profile marriage of convenience.

SuperPages.com's PPC Play
(February 5, 2004 - InternetNews.com)
On March 1, a redesigned version of Verizon's SuperPages.com online business listings goes live. It will change not only how users get results but the results they get: For the first time, SuperPages.com listings will feature its own pay-per-click advertisers at the top of each page.

Microsoft's Robert Scoble Discusses Search Engine Technology
(February 4, 2004 - SearchEngineGuide.com)
Nice Q&A by Andy Beal asking prominent blogger and Microsoft employee Robert Scoble of where he thinks search may be going, which some interesting thoughts on how desktop searching might be made easier, as well as looking at web-wide ideas.