Users who opt into the new program will be able to compare their site’s performance against the rest of their industry or another industry. Read Original Post Here

We have still not been able to get the full picture of what is happening with Ask.com.
Various quotes from company representatives have been interpreted to mean that Google is abandoning search in order to turn Ask.com into a kind of information portal for married women, replacing its own Teoma search engine technology with Google’s.
It […]

Pandia gives you an overview of this week’s search engine buzz.
Pandia this week:

The end of Ask as we know it

Beyond Search, a blog about search technology and the search engine industry

Metasearch engine SortFix offers new take on search results

Multi language dictionary with translations and pronunciation

Put current events in context with news search engine Silobreaker

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If you have not discovered this one already, you might want to take a look at Stephen Arnold’s relatively new blog over at Beyond Search.
Stephen Arnold is the man behind the report Google Version 2.0: The Calculating Predator. That report it is horribly expensive, and probably for industry experts and investors only. […]

SortFix is a metasearch engine that searches Google, Yahoo and dmoz. What sets it apart from other metasearch engines is the way it presents the search result. SortFix gives you a drag-and-drop interface which assists the user to describe a detailed and precise query.
I talked to Yohay Barsky, SortFix’ CTO and co-founder based in Tel-Aviv, […]

Dictionarist is a language tool resembling a Swiss army knife: It’s a free online talking dictionary which provide translation in 13 languages.
This cool language tool translates to and from English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Italian, Russian, Turkish, Dutch, Greek, Chinese, Japanese and Korean. When combined, this makes 60 translation options (English to French, French to […]

Silobreaker is a different news search service. It aims to deliver meaning and relevance, not just aggregate and rank news. This is done by providing relational analysis and explanatory graphics to give you contextual insight into news stories and current events.

[Updated Mar 5 2008]
Silobreaker pulls content on global issues, science, technology and business from approximately […]

Search engine Gigablast gets a face lift
Rumor has it that Ask.com may abandon its own search engine technology in favor of Google. That would be a shame, as Google need all the competition it can get. If anything comes out of the Microsoft/Yahoo! merger we will end up with only two major search engine technologies.
There […]

Google has done it again. It has given users a free online service that elsewhere will cost you — much. This time it is an online collaboration tool.
Google Sites allows anyone to put up a collaboration web site for project management, team coordination, a company intranet or extranet, and other types of online […]

There is a new Swedish service available that helps you find relevant web pages.
By Pandia Guest Writer Lars Våge, Internetbrus.com
Web inSuggest can, according to the owners, not really be called a search service, but is rather a recommendation engine. You tell the service what kind of sites you are interested in and get […]