What's Cooking in Search Engine Labs
(June 30, 2005 - SearchDay)
Want a peek behind the scenes at the research and development efforts going on at the major search engines? Here's where to find the freshest info.

Google Earth Flies Free
(June 28, 2005 - SearchDay)
Google has released its long-anticipated geographic search tool, a new application that combines local search with satellite images and maps from around the globe.

Google Video Search Ready for Playback
(June 27, 2005 - News.com)
Service is another step in the search giant's expansion into more comprehensive media services. Could pay-per-view movies be next?

Visualizing Yahoo Search Results
(June 23, 2005 - SearchDay)
Grokker, a visual search tool that clusters related search results together in conceptually related categories, is now available in an online version, free of charge.

Yahoo! Anoints Winner of 10 MM Impressions
(June 23, 2005 - ClickZ)
Yahoo! today named a Phoenix-based exercise equipment maker as the winner of its "Think Big" contest to give away millions of ad impressions to an innovative small business.

AOL.com Beta Site Unveiled
(June 22, 2005 - ClickZ)
America Online's future unofficially began today, with the beta launch of its new AOL.com portal marking the turning point between its subscription-based business model of the past and its ad-supported future.

Yahoo to the Max
(June 22, 2005 - SearchDay)
Extreme searcher Ran Hock has published a new book, this time taking an in-depth look at the wide range of tools and services offered by Yahoo.

Google Search For Tiny Screens
(June 17, 2005 - InternetNews.com )
Aiming to make search easier for users on the go, Google released Google Mobile Web Search on Thursday. The new service points users of Internet-enabled mobile devices to a special index of Web pages that have been optimized by their publishers for the small screen.

Yahoo Opens Window to 'Deep Web'
(June 16, 2005 - TechNewsWorld )
Yahoo has lifted the veil on the "deep Web" with the beta version of Yahoo Subscription Search. The "deep Web" includes information on the Web that is not available for free. This information is not listed within general search results.

MSN Shopping To Add PriceGrabber Listings
(June 14, 2005 - MediaPost)
Comparison shopping site Pricegrabber.com and MSN formed a strategic partnership to add the shopping site's listings and review database onto MSN's shopping vertical site. The partnership, which hasn't yet gone live, was signed earlier this month.

Google Readying Web-Only Video Search
(June 13, 2005 - News.com)
Google is expected to unveil a search engine for Web-only video this summer that will let people preview media clips from its Web site.

AOL Wooing Users to Portal, With a Little Help From Its Foes
(June 10, 2005 - The New York Times)
America Online wants to wrest users away from Yahoo and Google, but it will have to pay those companies tens of millions of dollars as it tries to do so.

Study: Search Engines Still Fail to Disclose Ads
(June 9, 2005 - ClickZ)
Search engines continue to inadequately inform consumers about the influence that advertising dollars have on placement and rankings of search results, according to a report released today by Consumer Reports WebWatch.

Sprint to Offer Enhanced Yahoo E-mail for a Fee
(June 8, 2005 - News.com)
The two companies are hoping to entice customers with improved features such as faster access and a PC-like interface.

FindWhat to Rebrand as Miva
(June 7, 2005 - ClickZ)
The FindWhat and Espotting networks will become Miva Media. This division will manage the company's pay-per-click, pay-per-call and AdRevenue Xpress self-service product, as well as all private label initiatives. The company The company expects the re-branding to be complete by the end of June.

Scripps to Acquire Shopzilla
(June 6, 2005 - ClickZ)
Media giant E.W. Scripps Company will broaden its online portfolio with the acquisition of comparison shopping search engine Shopzilla. Besides giving Scripps a bigger online footprint, the deal will allow the company to build relationships with the engine's pay-per-click merchant advertisers.

Contextual Search with Firefox
(June 6, 2005 - SearchDay)
Found something on a web page you'd like more information about? A nifty plugin for Firefox lets you highlight text and search using any of Firefox's built-in search engines with a simple right click of your mouse.

Google Works With Web Publishers to Improve Search
(June 3, 2005 - Netimperative)
Google has launched a new service designed for webmasters that enables them to automatically submit their web pages to Google. Google Sitemaps is a free online service, aimed to providing the search giant with more information about web content, which will in turn help it to improve search results for users.

Forging an Anti-terrorism Search Tool
(June 2, 2005 - News.com)
The technology, released as a prototype in recent weeks, is designed to mine a corpus of documents for associated ideas or connections--connections between two unrelated concepts, for example, that would otherwise go unseen or would take countless hours of investigative work to discover.

Are Google and Yahoo! Fund Suckers?
(June 1, 2005 - Search Engine Guide)
The phenomenal success of search engine leaders Google and Yahoo! is creating a sucking void in the bank accounts of other leading information companies.

eBay to Buy Shopping.com for $620 Million
(June 1, 2005 - News.com)
eBay plans to acquire Shopping.com in a $620 million cash transaction aimed at resuscitating the auction giant's slowing growth rate.