What the Microsoft-Yahoo deal means to users

Consumers would see improved Web search efforts by all major players as a result of a proposed search partnership between Microsoft and Yahoo, experts say.

Yahoo exec challenges Cuil with Yuil

A Yahoo executive created a version of the Yahoo search engine called Yuil, which provided Yahoo search results in a Cuil-esque format. The search engine was taken down eventually (probably at the request of someone higher up at Yahoo or Cuil), but it's still kind of funny.

Advertisers Give Thumbs-Down to Google-Yahoo Deal

Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive, said yesterday that his company's search deal with Yahoo was a win-win-win: a win for the companies, a win for the publishers and a win for advertisers. Advertisers don't seem to agree.

Does Your Search Engine Recognize Memorial Day?

On nearly every holiday throughout the year, search engines will do something special to their logo, the styleof their page or in some cases nothing at all. Today, Memorial Day, should be no exception - yet strangely, for some engines, it has become one.

299 Steps to Website Heaven

OK - so SEO people are persona non grata on Newsvine....right? But here's one who is actually giving away all the secrets for free... at a rate of one a day. She's up to number 7 so far. In 292 days all Viners could be SEO gurus. (Will we have to ban ourselves then?)