Chinese search giant Baidu has received lots of suspicions for its so-called “Baidu Bidding Ranking program”. China Central Television and main competitor Google were the main critics of the program run by Baidu.

News has spread that some competitors have even filed a lawsuit in the local court to get a justified answer.

Amazon is taking opportunity of Thanksgiving day by releasing the bad news of shutting one of its web service i.e. Alexa Web Search. This service provides programmatic access to Alexa’s web search engine. Introduced in 2006, the service is already closed to new customers but the existing users can utilize it till January 26, 2009.

The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization has launched its fifth annual State-of-the-SEM Market Survey.

All that happened in the world of search engines in the first week of August. Once again, the blogs are all in chronological order. Enjoy!

Yahoo! Finally Gives a New Face to Yahoo! Site Explorer!:

According to the Yahoo! Search Blog, Yahoo! has finally given its Site Explorer the long overdue facelift with an entirely new interface, giving the Site Explorer an all new look and feel. You can check out the new Yahoo! Site Explorer.

One of India's national newspaper, Hindu, recently reported that India's highest court of justice, the Supreme Court, notified the Centre, Google India, Yahoo India and Microsoft Corporation, trying to impose a ban on these online search engines, which have been unlawfully promoting sex selection techniques.

All that happened in the world of search engines in the first week of August. Once again, the blogs are all in chronological order. Enjoy!

How to Save Googlebot the Trouble of Crawling Infinite Space!:

All that happened in the world of search engines in the first week of August. Once again, the blogs are all in chronological order. Enjoy!

Google Takes Down Average Position Indicators in the Content Network!:

Over at PPC Hero John reports that, Google has begun the removal of Content Network average position indicators or figures. In place of the position indicators, Google is now displaying 'N/A' (not available) to the users.

It was almost a decade ago that Google established itself as the principal search engine in the web world and since then has hardly faced competition that can be put into the record books. The recent launch of another search engine, named Cuil (pronounced cool), was a simple reiteration of this fact. Though Cuil has been crafted and developed by former Google compatriots, Anna Patterson, Russell Power and Louis Monier, the overall product was not even a close second to Google.

All that happened in the world of search engines in the fourth week of July 2008. Once again, the blogs are all in chronological order. Enjoy!

Google Gives a Heads-Up for an Upcoming PageRank Update!

It's Search Engine Rankings time again and ComScore has released its findings for the'U.S. Search Engine Rankings for June 2008'. According to the new results, search engines like Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally gained some ground, but they still aren't even close enough to make Google drop a sweat. According to ComScore, Google is still way ahead of any other search engine, when it comes to raw number of searches for the month of June.