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Yesterday, Google Health Beta was launched with praises from some and to the dismay of others. The idea of a Google service for health care providers had been speculated as early as July of 2006, with a confirmation of the Google Health project by CEO Eric Schmidt in February of 2008.
Google Health is primarily a [...]

Riddle: Ask.com has well-organized ones, Google has ugly ones, and now Yahoo is implementing them too. What are they?
Answer: Universal search result pages (a.k.a. blended search or federated search).
Universal search pages, or as Yahoo calls them, "Glue Pages," have been showing up on Yahoo India late last week. While still in beta, Yahoo’s Glue Pages [...]

Google datacenters have been busy the past couple of days as they were updating toolbar PageRanks (TBPR) across the board. The last complete PageRank update was in late February. SearchEnginePanel.com maintained its PR2 since getting ranked, and is now up to PR3 from this latest update. I’m attributing the small step to writing fresh [...]

It’s been about half a year since Website Optimizer beta was released along with a two-part webinar series that introduced the nuts and bolts of the service. The first webinar was a little shaky from what I remember, and people had issues downloading the right software and getting the sound to work through the phonelines.
Okay. [...]

There have been a few reports from the search community that Google is showing signs of being case-sensitive. I’ve ran a dozen or so test searches myself with varying uppercase and lowercase letters, but there hasn’t been any changes in the search results. The total number of search results found differed by less than [...]