A few days before Christmas, Microsoft’s MSN Search team announced their MSN Search Wiki. The word quickly spread to blogs like ResearchBuzz and Google Blogoscoped. Of the major search engines, MSN Search is the only one to employ wikis as a way to encourage customer participation in the product development process. Hats off to Microsoft […]

A couple months ago I shared one of my Google secrets, since that secret no longer worked. 😉 Specifically, it was how to obtain a list of the most important web sites according to Google. Now, surprisingly, this little trick appears to work again (it stopped working in 2003), thanks to a bug introduced into […]

Lots of Google-related happenings of late. Here’s a quick list: Google Scholar released a new advanced search interface (SearchEngineWatch Blog) CBS’ 60 Minutes gets up-close and personal with Google (you can watch the segment here) Google publishes their 2004 Year-End Google Zeitgeist, with a cool interactive summary of the data done in Flash. Google Labs […]