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According to Reuters, Yahoo has been working hard at a new design for their homepage. This new homepage still hasn’t been rolled out for most web users, and Yahoo states that less 15% of them are being fed the new design. Here’s a screenshot of the new homepage (click to enlarge).

At first glance, the “new” [...]

After spending years frolicking in Google Labs, the real-time suggestion feature dubbed "Google Suggest" will be making a permanent home on the search giant’s homepage by default. This doesn’t come as a surprise, as this sort of search tool is a great benefit to searchers whose memories aren’t the best or can’t think on their [...]

Getting your domain banned and complete website deindexed is by far the worse penalty that a search engine can impose on your website. Such an occurrence instantly drops search traffic to zero, and drags down leads and revenues along with it. A banned website effectively does not exist in the eyes of search engines, [...]

Every now and again a new search engine will hit the market, claim to be the next Google, make a small ripple in the search ocean and then dwindle off. The lucky few are bought and internalized, although most fall into debt and disappoint their VC backers. Some of the ambitious search engines include Wikia, [...]

The biggest news this week (at least from SEP’s perspective), is the announcement made by Adobe entitled, "Adobe Advances Rich Media Search on the Web." According to the press release,
Adobe is providing optimized Adobe® Flash® Player technology to Google and Yahoo! to enhance search engine indexing of the Flash file format (SWF) and uncover information [...]