Google Base in the SERPs

After CNET’s article on how the freshly started Google Base was being flooded with pornographic materials, it seems that Google is now starting to react and is cleaning up their database. It will be interesting to see how they plan on differentiating trash from actual content in the future. In […]...

Now, Google is also planning a pay-per-call-billing for advertising. New in this version is that the searcher gets called by Google first before they are connected to the advertiser. yardley.ca has interesting screenshots. Update: Spiegel Online article on this subject...

The Seekport searchengine is now also sporting a blogsearch. In Germany they are supposed to crawl through 300.000 blogs. Personally, I rather doubt that there are more than 10.000 well-tended blogs with useful content that are worth being crawled....