Search engine news of the week
Check Wikipedia traffic statistics
Wikipedia now enables you to check the traffic of Wikipedia pages. That allows you to get an idea of how many visitors you'd get if your website was #1 on Google.
For example, the Wikipedia page for "Asia" is the first result on Google for the keyword "asia". According to the traffic check the Asia page gets about 6,500 visitors per day.
Searchme: a new visual search engine
"Sequoia Capital, which has been a key investor of search giant Google (GOOG), as well as Yahoo, will unveil its latest investment in search, a visual search engine called: Searchme.
Searchme does look good, resembling a mashup of Google with Apple's popular Cover Flow three-dimensional graphical user interface used on its iTunes service, with a little of Ask.com’s categories thrown in."
Google to unveil a new ad service for web publishers
"Google Inc. plans to announce a new service that Web publishers can use to manage their online ad sales and serve up ads each time a consumer pulls up a Web page."
Search engine newslets
Yahoo acquires Israeli Foxytunes.
Vivisimo raises $4 million for Enterprise Search.
Google makes DoubleClick employees apply to keep their jobs.
Imagine there's a MicroHoo (it’s easy if you try).
Yahoo to move European headquarters to Switzerland.
AOL acquires social network Bebo.
Guilty until proven innocent.
Google Sky is now available for web browsers.
Eric Schmidt: MicroHoo deal could 'break' the Internet
"In what has to be one of the weirdest Q&As we've read in a long time, Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells Portfolio's Russ Mitchell that a Microsoft-Yahoo deal could 'break the internet.' Was he kidding? Apparently not."
Related: Microsoft, Yahoo execs finally meet, Yahoo showing signs of life, albeit too late
Google Ad Manager: It’s bigger than it looks
"Google Ad Manager is one critical piece in creating the open network of networks where any site can take any ad and any marketer can advertise on any site. When that day arrives, we all become atoms that can attract to one molecule or another, no longer locked into one network."
Related: OpenX vs Google Ad Manager, Google’s Trojan Horse: let the free ad serving begin
The price of coddling Google - how Yahoo lost its way
"Almost eight years ago, Yahoo decided to lend a little start-up a helping hand, featuring its search technology on the Yahoo home page and giving it money at a critical juncture. [...]
The start-up was Google, and Yahoo's generosity helped launch the most formidable competitor it had ever encountered."
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