Search auto-suggestion features are a recently hot search trend. Basically, there exist three approaches to search suggestions: Completion (to make users' lives easier by saving keystrokes) Suggestions (to remind users of their previous related searches, fix their spelling mistakes and make suggestoins… [read more]

I'll admit it, I am a search addict. I search all day long morning, noon and night; on the move on my mobile, at home and at work. Each day, 7 days a week, I spend no less than 4 hours conducting well over 150 queries, searching and scanning search engine result pages 2, 3, 4 even 10 pages deep. Organic… [read more]

I remember when I first experienced the power of the Internet. I was in middle school hanging out with a friend. We decided to use the computer in my father's office and got online to chat. Of course that led to starting trouble within the chat room and getting kicked out, but the feeling of connecting… [read more]

Yesterday I spoke with Alex Pham from the Los Angeles Times for an article she was doing about Jason Calacanis' new "search engine" called Mahalo. The article was published today and I am quoted in it: Calacanis, a New York native who lives in Brentwood, said Mahalo didn't have to keep up with everything… [read more]

What goes through your mind when you read about the silly lawsuits against Google accessing portions of your website? What do you think when you visit the Internet Wayback Machine and find hundreds of pages of your site in its full form (almost)? Most of you wonder what is going on in the minds of… [read more]

Earlier this morning, Denver Bronco's cornerback Darrent Williams was shot dead in a drive-by shooting. Williams was the Bronco's starting cornerback and they were just coming off a huge loss that knocked them out of the playoffs. To say that this tragedy is a big story would be an understatement.… [read more]

It may be impractical to start a search engine in the US with Google's stronghold within the country, but other countries are aspiring to become national search powers, with French President Jacques Chirac's acknowledgment that "We must take up the challenge posed by the American giants Google and Yahoo."… [read more]

Actually, if they do, it's news to me. But I found this comment on their blog about Black Friday extremely interesting: Start by typing "Black Friday" into Ask.com's Blog & Feed search. You'll find blog postings everywhere about Black Friday sales. See a blog you like? Just hit that pull-down menu… [read more]

The October search results are in. According to Nielsen//NetRatings report on the Top US Search Providers, Google is still on top. Of searches within the US, Google has 49.6% of the search engine market share and a 23% increase from last year. In second place comes Yahoo! with 23.9% of all searches… [read more]

Oftentimes in the SEO business and even in personal website endeavors, we run into the question of why only some pages are indexed in the search engine results and others not. Waiting is a big deal -- returns just never seem immediate. We wonder how to make our pages indexed faster and consider submitting… [read more]