Google Japan penalized by Google

Dear Reader,
Funny things happen in the cyberworld. Google Japan did a campaign paying for bloggers to link and blog nicely of them in order to boost the campaign. The result? Mother company Google penalized them by lowering the PageRank of Google Japan from 9 to 5.

New search engine to harness librarians as a source for web page trustworthiness!

Dear Reader,
It has been quiet for some time in Webgrizzly’s camp. Or maybe more like deathlike silence.
Nonetheless, here’s some good news. A new search engine is on its way. So where’s the good news, one might ask? The good news is that this time its results won’t be based on popularity but on trustworthiness! At [...]

Rise of defcon

Dear reader,
It’s getting hectic again at work so blogging will become a secondary priority for a while. This means that I will be returning to my usual pace with new blog posts.
In the meantime, why not try the 4hoursearch.com that showed the world you could get better search results than Cuil with just 4 hours of [...]

Former Google engineers challenge ex-employer with ‘Cuil’ search engine

Dear Reader,
Yesterday a brand new search engine saw daylight. Cuil has a fresh GUI and a new type of search listing. Because of being used to how search engines show results at present, it might be a challenge for new users to get to know this search engine’s way. But so far I think the [...]

The future of Google search – new functionality on its way

Dear Reader,
Lately Google has been experimenting with very Digg and Wikia-like new search functionality. The research, according to Techcrunch, has actually started already a year ago. There seems to be only a handful of lucky test drivers at the time being.
The new search under testing consist e.g. of the ability to rate search engine results with ‘thumb down’ [...]