"Google is experimenting with search results tailored to a person's geographic location, following a similar move by rival Overture Services. [...]
Google Labs, the search company's research-and-development arm, unveiled a program that lets people type in a search term, along with an address or ZIP code, to find Web results and a miniature map from within the area.
Like many Google experiments, the new functionality may or may not be widely incorporated into the [...] search engine, but Google has hinted at its ambitions for geographically targeted search in the past."
"Overture Services [...] announced it has launched in
. [...] At launch, Overture's Spanish distribution partners include highly trafficked sites such as MSN; Tiscali; Lycos; Excite; Wanadoo; and Ya, a Spanish Internet Service Provider.
In addition to its core paid placement product, Overture will be providing the Wanadoo Group in Spain with Web Search results from FAST, which was acquired by Overture in April. Through these partnerships, Overture Spain reaches 71 percent of Spanish Internet users."
"Google, one of the most aggressive staff recruiters in Silicon Valley, is putting on a programming contest worth up to $10,000 and a possible career at the search company.
Called Google Code Jam 2009, the contest is essentially a timed, internet-based test of programming skills. After two rounds of competition, 25 people will be invited to Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, to compete for a total of $25,000 in cash prizes. Google plans to evaluate the crop of engineers as job candidates"
"Paid search company FindWhat.com [...] is renegotiating its agreement to buy European paid listings company Espotting after it found problems with the company's finances. The announcement casts some doubt as to whether the $163 million merger will go through. FindWhat.com said it might walk away from the deal if it cannot get a better price. The deal was due to close in the fourth quarter."
Search engine newslets "Internet portal Yahoo revenue from sponsored search queries to more than double by 2006, its chief financial officer said on Wednesday."
The Open Directory Project (ODP) is currently using an automated link checker to in their directory.
The search engine Wotbot to "Wotbox" because the old name was too similar to the search engine "Hotbot".
The search engine Gigablast uses new .
is a new web directory and search engine that uses a combination of the Open Directory Project and its own database of crawled web sites.
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