Kayak To Power About.com's Travel Search Engine
(May 31, 2005 - Online Media Daily)
Meta travel engine Kayak and About.com have entered into a two-year distribution partnership, the companies announced last week. Kayak will serve as About.com's "premier booking partner," powering a travel search engine for the consumer information site, which was acquired by the New York Times Co. in March.

Ask Jeeves Serves Up New Features
(May 26, 2005 - SearchDay)
Ask Jeeves is rolling out two new enhancements today that help searchers quickly focus queries and get direct answers to questions without using complex commands or advanced search tools.

Prospect of Search Ads on P2P Site Rattle SEMs
(May 25, 2005 - ClickZ)
Revelations that controversial file-sharing software developer BitTorrent will begin to host ads from Ask Jeeves alongside its upcoming search engine have drawn mixed results from SEMs.

Introducing a New Web Search Contender
(May 24, 2005 - SearchDay)
These days, web search is dominated by giants, and it's rare to see the emergence of a new potentially world-class search engine. Meet Exalead, a powerful search tool with features not offered by the major search engines.

gRock Media Group Debuts BigClique.com Search Engine
(May 23, 2005 - URLwire)
To compete with established players like Google, Yahoo, and MSN, BigClique debuts with an index of a several million web sites, and a proprietary ranking algorithm that analyzes on-site and off-site criteria including page text, tags, inbound links, and other factors.

Next for BitTorrent: Search
(May 23, 2005 - Wired)
Whiz kid inventor Bram Cohen and a small cadre of developers and entrepreneurs are in the final stage of launching an advertising-supported search engine dedicated to cataloging and indexing the thousands of movies, music tracks, software programs and other files for download over Cohen's popular BitTorrent protocol.

Google Launches Personalized Home Page
(May 20, 2005 - SearchDay)
Google has unveiled a new service that allows people to consolidate various Google features they use, ranging from web search to email, into a personalized home page.

Don't Disable Your Site for Handicapped Users
(May 19, 2005 - SearchDay)
Are you designing web sites that are accessible to disabled users? If not, you're overlooking a powerful market segment of millions of searchers and potential buyers.

Google Moves Search to Enterprise Desktop
(May 18, 2005 - InternetNews.com)
Google announced Google Desktop Search for Enterprise, a free product that includes administrative tools to ease corporations' security worries.

Supercharging Firefox
(May 18, 2005 - SearchDay)
The Firefox browser comes pre-configured with lots of great search tools, but it's also highly customizable, allowing you to push your online experience to new and fun extremes.

Google Opens Up Beta of AdSense for Feeds
(May 17, 2005 - ClickZ)
After testing AdSense contextual ad distribution in a handful of RSS feeds over the past few weeks, Google is opening up the beta program to all of its publisher partners. The company made the announcement at the Syndicate conference in Manhattan Tuesday.

MSN Toolbar with Desktop Search Officially Launches
(May 16, 2005 - SearchDay)
After five months in beta, Microsoft has released the final version of its desktop search application, incorporating many new features based on extensive user feedback.

Singingfish to Index Reuters' Video
(May 13, 2005 - Search Engine Guide)
Following the heels of Google's announcement that they will be indexing video feeds from several popular TV channels, AOL's Singingfish announced yesterday that they have partnered with popular news source Reuters.

Google Plays Dodgeball
The search giant has acquired Dodgeball.com, a free text-message service that lets users tell a list of their selected friends their location at any moment as it moves to compete with Yahoo! Wanna go where everybody knows your name? Google will make it happen.

Dogpile Enhances Meta Search, Offers Comparison Tools
(May 12, 2005 - SearchDay)
Dogpile has redesigned its meta search site and introduced a nifty new utility that visually displays the overlap (or lack thereof) of results from the multiple search engines it queries.

Ask Jeeves Eyes Growth Under IAC Umbrella
(May 9, 2005 - News.com)
Emboldened by its pending purchase by Barry Diller's deep-pocketed Web conglomerate InteractiveCorp, Web search provider Ask Jeeves plans to take square aim at industry giants Google and Yahoo when the deal closes.

Yahoo Developing an Audio Search Engine
(May 5, 2005 - News.com)
Designed for Web surfers looking for songs and music services, the search engine will offer yet another way for Yahoo to attract visitors and ad revenue.

Google: Biting the Hand That Feeds It?
(May 4, 2005 - CNN/Money)
Everybody loves Google, right? Not so fast. In honor of National Teacher Day, Google featured on its home page Tuesday a graphic of a chalkboard with an apple at its base. Quirky tributes like this are meant to engender goodwill among the Google masses. Not everyone, however, is feeling warm and fuzzy toward Google.

Gates vs. Google: Search and Destroy
(May 3, 2005 - Fortune)
Bill Gates is on a mission to build a Google killer. What got him so riled? The darling of search is moving into software—and that's Microsoft's turf.

Forrester Research Online Advertising And Marketing Forecast — Market To Reach $26 Billion By 2010
(May 3, 2005 - CNN/Money)
Almost half of marketers plan to decrease spending in traditional advertising channels like magazines, direct mail, and newspapers to fund an increase in online ad spending in 2005. Total US online advertising and marketing spending will reach $14.7 billion in 2005, a 23 percent increase over 2004.

CNN on the Spam Attack?
(May 2, 2005 - Wired News)
The blogosphere is buzzing with rumors about a strange viral marketing campaign concerning CNN, that may be promoting the cable channel or squelching criticism of it -- or perhaps both at the same time.

Microsoft Learns to Crawl
(May 2, 2005 - Seattle Times)
Bill Gates knows when he's been beaten. Last year, the Microsoft chairman candidly credited Google with winning the first round of the search wars. "Google kicked our butts," he said. A few months ago, when asked why the company had used technology from rivals to run its search engine, he admitted something rarely heard from Microsoft's top brass: "We were stupid as hell."