Judge dismisses suit against Google
"A federal judge this week granted Google's motion to dismiss a suit that alleged the company manipulated search results in its powerful Web index.
U.S. District Court Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange on Tuesday denied a motion for a preliminary injunction brought by SearchKing, [...] that claimed Google unfairly removed links to its site and those of its partners from the index, causing financial losses.
The judge dismissed the case on the grounds that Google's formula for calculating the popularity of a Web page, or 'PageRank,' constitutes opinions protected by the First Amendment."
Open Directory introduces abuse report system
The Open Directory Project (ODP) is the largest, human- edited directory of the web. However, there have been complaints about editors giving preferential treatment to their own sites.
Now there's a site where everyone can report suspicions of abusive editors to DMOZ meta editors and staff: http://inelegant.org/report-abuse/
This site enables users of the Open Directory Project (DMOZ) to report suspicions of abusive editors to DMOZ meta editors and staff.
Lycos renews and expands deal with Overture
"Overture has expanded its U.S. Pay-For-Performance distribution agreement with Lycos through May 2006. Under this renewal, Lycos.com and its affiliated site Hotbot.com will continue to show the top four Overture advertiser listings labeled as 'Sponsored Links' on their search results pages."
Google sponsors US Puzzle Championship
Google has announced their sponsorship of the US Puzzle Championship, which they describe as a "a national online competition to identify America's most logical minds.
AllTheWeb now includes descriptions on search result pages
AllTheWeb now displays the META Description tag of some sites below the usual 1-2 description lines for each site on their search result page. Try this example query.
Google headlines in Spanish and Italian
"Now when you search on google.com.mx, google.com.ar, google.cl and google.co.cr, google.it and google.ch as well as other Google sites that offer Spanish and Italian interfaces, relevant news headlines will be included at the top of your search."
Kanisa buys Ask Jeeves's enterprise unit
"Kanisa, a provider of knowledge-empowered customer service applications, on Wednesday announced plans to acquire the enterprise software division of Web-search company Ask Jeeves Inc. [...] Meanwhile, Ask Jeeves will focus on its online search sites, which include Ask.com and Teoma.com. [...] growth pushed the company [Ask Jeeves] to profitability for the first time in its seven- year history."
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